Rumsfeld May Have Ordered Children To Be Raped and Sodomized In Front Of Parents For Information, page 3

Originally posted by Yumi

Seymour Hersh was also the first reporter to say we would not find WMDs.
He has won Polk Awards, and in 2004 won another award, over all he has won over a Dozen Respectable Awards, plus a few minor ones.

Let's not forget the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for International Reporting. This is a well respected man in his field as well as being someone who has the guts to say what is really happening in the face of a radical administration hell bent on war and cover-up. He was famous for exposing similar cover-ups of torture in Vietnam.

How many journalists can you say are still fighting for the cause of the victims of war?

And for those of you who are comparing the torture and killing of soldiers with the torture of children and prisoners of war, shame on you. War is war on either side. Those children and prisoners have families too. Or have you hardened yourself so much against them that it doesn't bother you when you look at the photos or those people being tortured? That level of hatred and insensitivity is nothing new though is it? Especially when it allows you to continue believing what you want to believe.

The US talks about 'freedom' and 'liberation' and then employs methods similar to the factions it is supposedly fighting against. How does it make them better?

For those who still don't believe any torture of any kind from the 'good' side, wake up. Better yet, grow up. The US didn't get to where it is today by playing nicely.

The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, personally authorised the expansion of a special programme which ultimately led to the abuses in Abu Ghraib prison, the New Yorker magazine claims today.

The operation, which encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation to obtain intelligence, was known to President George Bush and fewer than 200 operatives. It was approved by the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, according to the report. The programme was governed by the rules: "Grab who you must. Do what you want," a former intelligence officer told the magazine. www.guardian.co.uk...

Or how about this guy. Still not patriotic or believable enough for you?

Colonel Pheneger is a highly decorated thirty year veteran who has served in various high level military posts throughout his career, including: Commander, U. S. Army Intelligence School, Director of Intelligence, U. S. Special Operations Command; Deputy Director of Intelligence, and has worked with the USSOCOM and USCENTCOM teams providing high level intelligence support. Colonel Pheneger is also a lifelong Republican

Colonel Pheneger submitted testimony asking that new Abu Ghraib documents be published and not covered up.

I'm sure this will provoke screeches of 'leftist'. Nonetheless, here it is...

The ACLU also released an Information Paper entitled "Allegations of Detainee Abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan" dated April 2, 2004, two weeks before the world saw the pictures of torture at Abu Ghraib prison. The paper outlined the status of 62 investigations of detainee abuse and detainee deaths. Cases include assaults, punching, kicking and beatings, mock executions, sexual assault of a female detainee, threatening to kill an Iraqi child to "send a message to other Iraqis," stripping detainees, beating them and shocking them with a blasting device, throwing rocks at handcuffed Iraqi children, choking detainees with knots of their scarves and interrogations at gunpoint. (emphasis mine) www.rawstory.com...

Are you really that naive to believe this isn't going on? It isn't a question of denial or saying 'yeah they killed and tortured two of ours'. Or to say, well we didn't see it so it didn't happen.

One has to protect and be vigiliant against this sort of inhumane behaviour and mentality at ALL costs. ESPECIALLY during war.