The banal routine of torturing prisoners

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

Miss Ladybug points out some foolishness.

One such photo is the iconic image of the Iraqi whom the soldiers nicknamed Gilligan, who stands hooded on a cardboard box with his arms outstretched under a makeshift poncho while wires dangle from his fingers (he was told that he would be electrocuted if he fell from the box). Gilligan's ordeal with the wires lasted 10, maybe 15 minutes and was relatively tame by Abu Ghraib standards. He later became one of the soldiers' favorite prisoners after he, like most Abu Ghraib detainees, was cleared of any involvement in insurgent attacks

Is there an actual limit to the number of evil military movies there can be? Umm no. The attempts to ensure that Abu Ghraib becomes the icon of the Iraq War continue, but it seems more strained every time they trot it out. Now we have a photog telling the back story behind the evil pictures. Shockingly it was a conspiracy hatched in the White House and they have tons zero evidence actually showing that. I'm sorry some people are low, and that military units sometimes suck, but they are.

What is awful is the assumptions these news reporters make like

like most Abu Ghraib detainees, was cleared of any involvement in insurgent attacks

Like really? Most detainees not just released, but cleared of ANY involvement? God bless it that is just ridiculously wrong and stupid. All the US does is obviously heinous, it's just a matter of enough press attention and we can prove it. They look at every action as simply raw evidence that needs to be worked into useful charges against our jack-booted thugs. Man it gets old and stale and useless; it should be history in the back of the library in a dusty old book that nobody reads anymore.

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The banal routine of torturing prisoners

Miss Ladybug points out some foolishness.

One such photo is the iconic image of the Iraqi whom the soldiers nicknamed Gilligan, who stands hooded on a cardboard box with his arms outstretched under a makeshift poncho while wires dangle from his fingers (he was told that he would be electrocuted if he fell from the box). Gilligan's ordeal with the wires lasted 10, maybe 15 minutes and was relatively tame by Abu Ghraib standards. He later became one of the soldiers' favorite prisoners after he, like most Abu Ghraib detainees, was cleared of any involvement in insurgent attacks

Is there an actual limit to the number of evil military movies there can be? Umm no. The attempts to ensure that Abu Ghraib becomes the icon of the Iraq War continue, but it seems more strained every time they trot it out. Now we have a photog telling the back story behind the evil pictures. Shockingly it was a conspiracy hatched in the White House and they have tons zero evidence actually showing that. I'm sorry some people are low, and that military units sometimes suck, but they are.

What is awful is the assumptions these news reporters make like

like most Abu Ghraib detainees, was cleared of any involvement in insurgent attacks

Like really? Most detainees not just released, but cleared of ANY involvement? God bless it that is just ridiculously wrong and stupid. All the US does is obviously heinous, it's just a matter of enough press attention and we can prove it. They look at every action as simply raw evidence that needs to be worked into useful charges against our jack-booted thugs. Man it gets old and stale and useless; it should be history in the back of the library in a dusty old book that nobody reads anymore.

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