http://www.reason.com/0504/co.mw.the.shtml
Quote:April 2005
The Pentagon's Secret Stash
Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos
Matt Welch
The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys."a hooded prisoner standing atop a box with electrodes attatched to his hands, Pfc. Lynndie England dragging a naked prisoner by a leash, England and Spc. Charles Graner giving a grinning thumbs-up behind a stack of human meat
There's a whole lot more in the article.
But I just wanted to point out that to McG, apparently,
blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman acts are not torture;
American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys are not torture;
a hooded prisoner standing atop a box with electrodes attatched to his hands isn't torture either.
No, those are all
abuses, a different category that shouldn't be looked at the same way. Right.
Sure, we're guilty of abuses; but Saddam, hey, that guy
really tortured people, so we are practically
saints in comparison.
The cognitive dissonance you must live with blows my mind, McG.
Cycloptichorn