Abu Ghraib

Salon was asking questions about this a few weeks ago, too, but didn't have all the details. 60 Minutes showed some of the photgraphs. They are unambiguously horrifying, willful degradation of prisoners for the sheer hell of it. The sorta thing that makes you feel ashamed to even be a human being.

although sgt. sadist's excuse making looked like buck-passing of the worst variety, the command structure clearly needs a major looking at. if you're taking photos of this shit, you're probably just sick, but in db's video it looked like a bunch of clueless kids who had no idea how to respond to freaking wood-stealing. that kind of thing can be avoided.

catalog this as reason #3361783 why war is generally not a good thing.

Meanwhile, the folks on Freerepublic.com would blow an artery if this had happened to 'Merikkans.

"sometimes, you would just give them a little nudge or something like that just to get them to cooperate so we could get the mission accomplished"

I do have an item of morbid curiosity: when it says There are shots of the prisoners stacked in a pyramid, Do they mean like gymnastics, or like cordwood?

Yeah, I find that patently ridiculous. I suspect there's more to it than that but if that's a direct quote from the interview pre-production and editing then frankly...

how do you spell omelet anyway?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6968989.stm

*slow handclaps*

this thing goes all the way to the lower middle

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/wburma530.xml

*more slow handclaps*

ignore that link, I meant this one:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/01/america/NA-GEN-US-Abu-Ghraib-Frederick.php