Real Electrodes. Not "simulated."

[Eric J in MN]

I updated an article I wrote titled, "Real Torture, Real Sex, Real Electrodes at US Prisons in Iraq" at my blog.

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_05_30_real_torture_real_sex_real_electrodes.asp


Please don't say the prisoners were forced to "simulate sex." They were forced to have homosexual sex with each other.

Please don't say the prisoners had "simulated electrodes" attached to their bodies. The prisoners were burned with real electrodes.

[thebigidea]

1. yep, I yammered about this as well... would Granerites "simulate?"

could you possibly imagine a Graner-type being content to merely "simulate?"

http://www.terminalproduct.com/torture.rm

they tried to pull the same shit about the sex stuff... "simulated" oral sex. I suppose it was simulated anal rape of that boy as well, right?

[Eric J in MN]

2. Someone who said, "I believe in torture"

Someone who said, "I believe in torture" wouldn't be content with forcing prisoners to simulate sex with each other.

[Eric J in MN]

3. wicked video, are you the actor with the moustache? (nt)

nt

[thebigidea]

5. the one in the marching band hat and phony moustache, the OGA guy

quite a silly performance. I kept forgetting the voice I was using, it kept lapsing into my 40s propaganda film narrator voice.

[elf]

4. Read my post a few minutes earlier

elf (273 posts) Thu Jun-17-04 11:52 PM
Original message
Physician, Turn Thyself In / A must read From New York Times


It's a scandal!

[elf]

6. like this

According to press reports, military doctors and nurses who examined prisoners at Abu Ghraib treated swollen genitals, prescribed painkillers, stitched wounds, and recorded evidence of the abuses going on around them. Under international law — as well as the standards of common decency — these medical professionals had a duty to tell those in power what they saw


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/10/opinion/10BLOC.html?ex=1087531200&en...