"The U.S. is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the U.S. and the community of law abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating and prosecuting all acts of torture."- G.W. Bush, June 26, 2003
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These photos just bring me to tears. It is not often that I am at a loss for words but these photos just leave me speechless and disheartened about the world my daughter will inherit.
I dont understand the grins. What the fuck is so funny you know?
War breads Insane Brutality ...
What a shame ... some how the dear hunter & Platoon jump to mind...
We have become the heart of darkness. You read stories about Algeria and other such places and the humiliation and sadism that is part and parcel of their system, and now to see ourselves doing such things is just sad.
Abu for sale or rent
Rooms to let...fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but..two hours of plant'in bombs
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit cell
I'm a POS of means by no means
Mushahadin.
It's a roach motel.
I just feel ashamed and sorry and saddened.
What's "mushahadin"?
that would be Mujahideen ..... or ... "Whos U hid'in" depending upon which unit rousted your ass!
AMERICAN P.R. LIKE GOLD LEAF
George Herbert Walker famously
Disliked broccoli rabe,
And he meandered aimlessly
Until he met his babe;
The lies he told, most shamelessly
Would shock old Honest Abe,
Yet their results, not blamelessly,
Extend to Abu Ghraib.
That prison's owner was Sadaam,
Our buddy in Iraq
Whom we supplied with gas and bomb
Until we changed our tack.
(By gas I mean, as for pogrom,
Nor we did not look back,
Nor he considered it haram,
When Shias he did attack.)
Invading so to occupy
His country, the US
Took over functions, low and high,
One might say, more or less:
No different the hotel Hanoi
Which France had used to press
Vietnamese, did they employ
To make GI's confess.
Such is the prison culture, these
Are built so to achieve
Certain results, not just to seize
Captives, you can believe:
Beyond the torture prison sees
Such deaths wardens nor grieve--
Keys bring responsibilities
Hard conscience to reprieve.
Catch-22 transfers the guilt
To whom would be the master;
When prisons have been sturdy built
Required is no forecaster
To point the end the means fulfilt,
For function is outlaster
Though owners change, though it be gilt
As gold-leaf covers plaster.
The place is seldom plenty fun
For such as are consigned
Captive to prison--gently run
Not likely: hate is blind.
Cruel guard, did he relent, he won
No favor for the grind,
While, where none honest went, he won
Promotion, praise assigned:
Should leasehold claim S-21
Could 22 be far behind?
Beneath Pol Pot e'en Camelot
Would turn into fiasco;
While any sot who likes it hot
May ask for some tobasco;
So with no plans or with, a man's
Inclined to sink like water
To lowest depths: Americans
Purchased cruelty and slaughter.
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