While Bush hides, WaPo releases Abu Ghraib videos, photos.

[NightOwwl]

While media continues their 24/7 coverage of Swift Boat Liars, report is issued that finds fault at the highest levels of the Pentagon.

Our priorities are so screwed.

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Three Army generals said yesterday that an array of sometimes shocking detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison came in part at the hands of more than two dozen military intelligence soldiers and civilian contractors, widening the scope of the international scandal as one Army general conceded that some of the acts qualified as torture.

In releasing an investigative report yesterday about the actions of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, the generals acknowledged that chaos and confusion absorbed Abu Ghraib. Interrogators did not know the rules and thus flagrantly broke them. Detainees were questioned while naked, the CIA hid prisoners from international human rights groups, and detainees were left hooded and handcuffed in painful positions.

In sometimes agonizing detail, the generals detailed acts of sodomy, beatings, nudity, lengthy isolation, and the use of unmuzzled dogs in a sadistic game of making detainees urinate and defecate in fear.

"The abuses spanned from direct physical assault, such as delivering head blows rendering detainees unconscious, to sexual posing and forced participation in group masturbation," the Army report says. "At the extremes were the death of a detainee an alleged rape committed by a U.S. translator and observed by a female soldier, and the alleged sexual assault of an unknown female."



link to WaPo article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33795-2004Aug25.html

link to intelligence report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nationi/documents/fay_report_8-25-04.pdf

[A_Possum]

1. I hope those in the military put two and two together

and note that Kerry is saying that this is a massive failure of command and planning, and those who failed should also be be held responsible, and that Bush is saying, "It's all the bad mean soldiers' fault."

This is the utter failure of the Iraq adventure, totally outside of the mess in Iraq itself.

1) It has exposed us to the world as impotent in the face of a guerilla enemy.

2) It has painted us forever as brutal savages, not saviors, in the eyes of the world.

Unbelievable.

[LynnTheDem]

2. yep

And for Sen. Kerry, it's 1971 all over again.

[Skidmore]

6. It sure is, primarily cause we still are

contending with old Nixon cronies. They fill the ranks of *'s administration. This country will not be able to breathe uncorrupted air till that sorry bunch of old criminals die off.

[unslinkychild1]

3. What photos?

The only ones I saw were old ones; same with the video.

[NightOwwl]

4. I apologize

The wording at the Washington Post website made it sound like these were new photos. I posted the info before checking it out myself. Sigh...

[LibertyorDeath]

5. The Sick Fucks that did this should get ZERO MERCY.