Via Daily Kos:
"The unreleased images show American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys, according to NBC News." – The Boston Herald, May 8, 2004
"Torture and abuse also took many other forms, all of them criminal. Federal government documents obtained by the ACLU through our Freedom of Information Act litigation and reports of the International Committee of the Red Cross documented torture or abuse against U.S.-held detainees, including acts such as: soaking a prisoner’s hand in alcohol and setting it on fire, administering electric shocks, subjecting prisoners to repeated sexual abuse and assault, including sodomy with a bottle, raping a juvenile prisoner, kicking and beating prisoners in the head and groin, putting lit cigarettes inside a prisoner’s ear, force-feeding a baseball to a prisoner, chaining a prisoner hands-to-feet in a fetal position for 24 hours without food or water or access to a toilet, and breaking a prisoner’s shoulders.
But unpunished crimes go even further, to include possible homicides..."
2 comments:
Ben,
The men and women responsible for these horrid acts at Abu Ghraib were arrested, prosecuted, convicted and punished.
That's the difference between us and them. We punish those of us who do these things.
They celebrate them.
Tro,
No. Hardly any of them were.
The Bush administration still says we never tortured prisoners, don't they?
But it came from the top, it came from them.
How do you think the American soldiers came up with the idea that the way to humiliate Arabs was sexually?
As long as Bush & Co remain in office, those responsible have not been prosecuted, punished or anything like it.
If that's not celebrating, what is?
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/04/14/torture/index.html
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