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they "do not need pretexts for their barbarism."
New photos and videos revealed by the Pentagon to lawmakers in a private viewing on the 12th of May showed attack dogs snarling at cowing prisoners, Iraqi women forced to expose their breasts, and naked prisoners forced to have sex with each other, the lawmakers revealed.
Seymour Hersh, an investigative journalist with The New Yorker, said there are tapes of American soldiers sodomizing Iraqi boys, and that these tapes are being held by the Bush administration. "The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking," he claimed to a conference of the ACLU in July 2004.
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Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina) has been quoted as saying, "The American public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here," after hearing testimony from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Originally posted by subz
With regards to releasing the photos and video footage of this abuse, no! Im a firm believer in that there are simply things that the general public should not see and that includes scenes of murder, carnage and death.
Its enough that these photos are available to the police and prosecution. We do not need to see the gory details, knowing that they exist is enough for freedom of information. You dont need to physically see photos of rape, torture and murder to know it occured.
Originally posted by ShakyaHeir
So I take it you never watch TV? Or the news? Or any movies put out by Hollywood other than Disney or Pixar movies?
Originally posted by ShakyaHeir
We live in a messed up world, if you want to change things then forgetting about it and pushing the images out of your head isn't gonna fix anything.
Originally posted by curme
There are still some people, I see them on this board all the time (I could name names!), that believe panties on the head was the worst that happened. Of course, there is documentation of physical abuse, and allegations of much severe abuse, but some just simply refuse to believe it.