U.S. Soldiers Rode Elderly Iraqi Woman Like a Donkey

My God, is this the 21st century, or a page taken from Caligula?

As much as these horrendous tales convince me that my opinion of this US administration is the correct one-they're Nazi war criminals, I'm not going to read any more of them. They just disgust me too much.

Rumsfeld and Cheney probably took turns while Bush took pictures.

You act like they ordered things like this to happen. I treid finding more information about this and it appears none of the other news sources have picked up this story yet. If it's true it will be interesting so see what happens.

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[quote="McGentrix"]Rumsfeld and Cheney probably took turns while Bush took pictures. [/quote]

I am certain that the President would never take part in such obscene acts. Besides, everyone knows that, when Governor of Texas, his favorite hobby was executing people.

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I Googled the article and found it quite easily.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/126/world/British_official_tells_of_elde:.shtml

http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0675_BC_Britain-Iraq-US-Priso&&news&emergency

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5026268.html

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9483667%255E1702,00.html

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Britain%20Iraq%20US%20Prisoner%20Abuse

It's quite clear that Bush's credibility of his occupation force is in tatters and this horrific story of abuse targeting a 70 year old woman, just drives another nail in his political coffin.

I am sickened and appalled at this latest chapter of George "aWol" Bush's excellent Iraqi adventure. Yet, Bush has the audacity to ask for another $25 billion for this mess?

Enough is enough. Bush has got to go. At this point, I don't much care who gets elected in November as long as it isn't Bush.

This claim is weak. It is an AP report, the source of which is Ann Clwyd, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq. Clwyd claims to have "questioned everyone she could about the woman's claims. But she did not say whether the people questioned included U.S. forces or commanders". She believed the claims were true but "didn't want to harp on the case because as far as I'm concerned it's been resolved." There are sufficient well documented (pictures) horrific acts of torture and humiliation to make the charges of abuse and an out of control occupation stick without throwing this into the mix.

From the article:

Clwyd, 67, is a veteran politician of the governing Labour Party and a strong Blair supporter who regularly visits Iraq and reports back on issues such as human rights, the delivery of food and medical supplies to Iraqis, and Iraq's Kurdish minority. Her job as Blair's human rights envoy is unpaid and advisory.

Doesn't sound to me like Clwyd has an agenda. In fact, she's a Blair insider.

I don't think she has an agenda either. I think her name as been connected with a story, the credibility of which she cannot prove, and she is backing away from it. "didn't want to harp on it"

Maybe.

From the article:

"I am satisfied the case has now been resolved satisfactorily," the envoy told British Broadcasting Corp. radio Wednesday. "She got a visit last week from the authorities, and she is about to have her papers and jewelry returned to her."

Which could also mean an investigation is underway. As well there should be, IMHO.

I don't know why yahoo pulled the link to the story. Maybe the WH brought pressure to bear upon them, a la Disney?

Anyway, I'm glad infowarrior found a half dozen other links to the very same story and was kind enough to post them.

I am certain that the President would never take part in such obscene acts. Besides, everyone knows that, when Governor of Texas, his favorite hobby was executing people. [/b][/quote]

Hey! You make it sound like executing people is a bad thing. Mark Russell in his last "Comedy Special" said that Texans live for football, barbecue, and lethal injection.

But the barbarism involved in riding a woman like a donkey, if true, and it appears to be, is nothing when compared to the horrendous acts allowed by the inattention of Bush and Rumsfeld to the horrific treatment of Iraqi prisoners. It is clear that Bush and Rumsfeld know very little about Islam. The devout Muslim is aware that one of the most humiliating and debasing things that can be done to a fellow Muslim is to strip him naked and force him to engage in simulated homosexual acts. The ignorance of the Bush administration is appalling.

This is the third thread mporter said this about homosexuality. I wonder if the topic of a thread is, let's say, funding military retirement benefits, if he'd tried to work in homosexuality? Curious.

I think, if this is true, it is just as bad as the other things. Try to imagine it was your own grandmother being rode like a donkey. Mine passed away two years ago. But I could just imagine something like happening to her, she would have never have gotten over it. These stories are just too bizarre and disgusting for words. If the American people had any backbone at all they would begin the have huge protest marches all over the country in every single place that Bush or Bush supporters ever show up in. We need to have a sixties style revolutin (?spell) with people willing to go to jail again for a just cause.

Perhaps the most disturbing chapter ns an already disturbing epoch of American history.

Yes, freeing an oppressed society from the clutches of a madman and making the world safer from WMD's is a most disturbing epoch...

Well, at lease you didn't mention "no more torture chambers or rape rooms", because we sure didn't do a very good job of getting rid of those...

Is Rusty still sticking to his 'hazing' take?

Fatbaugh must be back on the blue babies...