Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's Why Mon Jul 25, 5:43 PM ET
Published: July 23, 2005 6:00 PM ET
NEW YORK So what is shown on the 87 photographs and four videos from Abu Ghraib prison that the Pentagon, in an eleventh hour move, blocked from release this weekend? One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: "I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe." They show acts "that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added.
A Republican Senator suggested the same day they contained scenes of "rape and murder." No wonder Rumsfeld commented then, "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse..."
Note that the Republican Senator was Lindsey Graham, co-sponsor of McCain's anti-torture legislation that Dubya has threatened to veto.
So, Sy Hersh was completely correct when he said that there was far worse shit out there than just what was released last year, huh?
Oh yeah, and:
A former warden of Abu Ghraib prison told a hushed courtroom yesterday that interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay were imported to the prison in Iraq...
but why rape & torture them, when you can just ice them all, as O'Reilly would have it? Why waste the time on even a rigged military tribunal?
Fuck these people. Seriously. Fuck them all.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
but why rape & torture them?a) TO GET SECRET INFORMATION?
b) HUMILIATION OF THE ENEMY?
c) SATISFACTION OF SADISTIC DESIRE?
― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)
yeah, but capping them is easier
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)