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  • The Psychodynamics of Occupation and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib: An Interpretation After One Year of Revelations
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Soldz
    There are various explanations for what went on at Abu Ghraib. The official US position is that a "few bad apples" among the reservist military police (MPs) there went out of control, violating orders to treat the prisoners humanely — "Animal House on the night shift," as former defense secretary James Schlesinger described it.(1) The MP defendants claim that they were following orders to soften up the prisoners as a prelude to interrogation. Investigative journalists have (…)

  • Iraq: What Went Wrong?
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Soldz
    [Talk delivered July 22, 2004 to Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice]
    After invading Iraq, the leader of the conquering army proclaimed:
    "Our armies do not come in your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators ... I am commanded to invite you to participate in the management of your own civil affairs."
    Was this George Bush, Tony Blair, Paul Bremer, or Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez? No, it was conquering British General Stanley Maude, in 1917.1,2 (…)

  • Abuse at Abu Ghraib, the Psychodynamics of Occupation
    3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stephen Soldz
    May 2, 2004 "ICH" — This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes II published the now infamous pictures of abuse and torture by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq (some of the pictures can be viewed on the New Yorker web site at http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?040510onslpo_prison
    Seymour Hersh has documented in the May 10, 2004 New Yorker (Torture at Abu Ghraib: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article6124.htm ) that the abuse shown in these photos (…)