"New" photos, marked mockery of US soldiers over prisoners

Did Dubya put you up to this?

I agree Military. These photos (and some of them look a little fakey to me) are now three years old, and will no doubt be run out periodically to fan the flames. At least when we cross the line people are punished. Our enemies live past the line of civilised behavior and somehow escape condemnation.

All those who torture prisoners are the lowest form of human beings.

That goes for terrorists and US soldiers alike.

You don't win a war by complaining about the conditions.

Certain atrocities should not be forgotten. The danger exists that they might be accepted as normal.

To make human suffering appear normal is not an option. Nobody can make torture look normal because his side commited it.

Torture is worse than murder; it is the lowest of all crimes.
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Abu Ghraib, again.

Meanwhile, Mr Bush's war on terror and his country's reputation abroad are being undone by two other familiar names. On February 15th, an Australian television channel broadcast previously unseen pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused by their American guards in Abu Ghraib jail in 2003. The pictures, whose publication the Pentagon had stopped in America, showed half a dozen corpses, and some gruesome variations on the kinds of abuse for which eight American guards have already been jailed. Even if the American media still seem reluctant to show the images, they have given an old scandal new life in much of the rest of the world.

Guantánamo Bay is also back in the news. The United Nations Human Rights Commission is expected to release a report calling for the immediate closure of the American military prison in Cuba, and the prosecution of all officials responsible for the alleged torture of detainees there. The White House will no doubt dismiss this, pointing out that al-Qaeda terrorists, if captured, have instructions to cry torture. But human-rights lawyers representing some of the prisoners say the evidence against many is flimsy. Some is based on hearsay, or the word of other Guantánamo prisoners subjected to lengthy interrogation. An investigation by the non-partisan National Journal concluded that "some, perhaps many, are guilty only of being foreigners in Afghanistan or Pakistan at the wrong time."

http://economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5524493

jesus...where do these people come from? One arrives at the depressing conclusion that universal education is a romantic delusion.

Get with the program! Torture more people more often or lose your job.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036182,00.html