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This has seriously caused damage to the American image. I feel this will endanger our remaining troops and it will endanger all American travellers abroad. I believe this will take years, possibly decades to repair.
I think the Commander in Chief is responsible and should be held accountable. I do not believe that he didn’t know anything about this, and, to place blame on lower ranks is outrageous and cowardly. The military intelligence/civilian security contracters should be made to (…)

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David Ashcroft
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President George W. Bush, Vice (…)

America is Committing War Crimes in Iraq
BRIAN CLOUGHLEY, CounterPunch
The demented and spiritually tormented Congressman Tom DeLay, House Majority leader, begins his speeches with the words "good evening [morning/afternoon], or, as John Kerry would say, ’bonjour’." This greeting is meant to indicate that Senator Kerry speaks French and is therefore un-American, unpatriotic and untrustworthy, and it is considered hilarious by many six year-olds. The French for ’good evening’ is bonsoir, (…)

’Spray and slay’: are American troops out of control in Iraq? Raymond Whitaker and Justin Huggler, The Independent
Amid the welter of ugly pictures from Iraq last week were images worse than those of the humiliation and torture of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison. These show chunks of flesh and hanks of women’s hair scattered across a scene of devastation. Among the few recognisable objects are musical instruments.
This is the scene of an incident that has divided Iraqis from their (…)

New allegations of systematic abuse of Iraqis by British troops
Severin Carrell, Francis Elliott and Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
Evidence that soldiers of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment carried out systematic torture of Iraqi civilians under the direction of an officer is to be put before the High Court, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Five Iraqis arrested with Baha Mousa, the Basra hotel receptionist who allegedly died in detention after three days of beatings by QLR (…)

U.S. Disputed Protected Status of Iraq Inmates DOUGLAS JEHL and NEIL A. LEWIS, The New York Times
Presented last fall with a detailed catalog of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the American military responded on Dec. 24 with a confidential letter asserting that many Iraqi prisoners were not entitled to the full protections of the Geneva Conventions.
The letter, drafted by military lawyers and signed by Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, emphasized the "military necessity" of isolating some inmates (…)

Rick Rogers, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
While world attention was focused on the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, two Marines were court-martialed May 14 for abusing an Iraqi prisoner with electricity, it was disclosed yesterday.
Five more Marines have been implicated in the same early April incident at a Marine-run detention facility and might face charges, according to Marine officials in Iraq.
Andrew J. Sting and Jeremiah J. Trefney, both 19 and privates first class assigned to the 2nd (…)

More charges arise in Iraqi abuse. Report: Elite force threatened detainees with drowning and suffocation; Rumsfeld knew about the tactics Craig Gordon
The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating charges that the military’s elite Delta Force abused Iraqi prisoners far more seriously than anything known at Abu Ghraib, including threatening them with drowning and suffocation, NBC News reported last night ( http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=1074 ).
NBC reported that (…)

Campbell Brown, NBC News
With attention focused on the seven soldiers charged with abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. military and intelligence officials familiar with the situation tell NBC News the Army’s elite Delta Force is now the subject of a Pentagon inspector general investigation into abuse against detainees.
The target is a top-secret site near Baghdad’s airport. The battlefield interrogation facility known as the “BIF” is pictured in satellite photos.
According to two top (…)

The Associated Press
Fragments of musical instruments, tufts of women’s hair and a large blood stain are among the scenes in Associated Press Television News film of a destroyed house that survivors say U.S. planes bombed during a wedding party.
It’s the first known footage from the site of Wednesday’s attack, which killed up to 45 people, mostly women and children from the Bou Fahad tribe in Mogr el-Deeb, a desert village on the Syrian border.
The U.S. military has said the target was (…)