RAPING WOMEN, BEATING MEN, RAPING BOYS,
AND MURDER; IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE

From the London Independent courtesy of J. Orlin Grabbe:

The Bush administration was bracing itself last night for the release of new pictures and video footage from Abu Ghraib which show US soldiers having sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner, troops almost beating a prisoner to death, and the rape of young boys by Iraqi guards at the jail.

Senior officials have warned that the new images and details of the abuse and torture at the prison west of Baghdad will be even more shocking than those already released. They will undoubtedly place even more pressure on President George Bush and his beleaguered Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, as they desperately try to limit the political damage from the growing scandal.

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Clearly, this is far, far worse than the horrific humiliations that, at this point, have been seen by the entire world. Furthermore, these are videos, not debatable reports: our soldiers have raped, beaten, and possibly murdered in cold blood helpless Iraqi prisoners.

Somehow the word “atrocity” doesn’t seem adequate for describing what has been done in America’s name.

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