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... of Politics
Jan 11/05b: Torture, con't.
If you don't believe me that Abu Ghraib was an anomaly, not
policy, then take a listen to one of the victims of the "torture" there:
Iraqi
Victim Says U.S. Torture Worse That Saddam
A former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to
masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said on Tuesday
even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things. The inmate
testified at the court martial of reservist soldier Charles Graner, accused
ringleader of guards who engaged in the abuse, which prompted outrage when
pictures of the sexual humiliation were published around the world. "I
couldn't believe in the beginning that this could happen, but I wished I could
kill myself because no one was there to stop it," Hussein Mutar, who was sent
to Abu Ghraib accused of car theft, said in videotaped testimony.
"They were torturing us as though it was theater for them..."
That's precisely it. (And the headline is wrong.). It was
"theater" not torture.
Oh, and we're dealing with it the good old American way, in the
courts
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