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British quizzed Iraqis at torture jail
· Tories demand Hoon explains when he was told about prisoner abuse · Whitehall alarmed over report that detainees were hidden from Red Cross
Peter Beaumont, Martin Bright and Paul Harris in Washington Sunday May 9, 2004 The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1212769,00.html
British military intelligence officers were interrogating prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq even as the first reports of abuses at (…)

You are very right — millions of working Americans oppose this war. Many of us will vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries, the one Democratic candidate still hanging in with a peace message. I’m totally disgusted and discouraged with Kerry’s pro-war, pro-Bush statements. We Americans who oppose American imperialism are left with no real choice in the main election. It’s unbelievable and terribly sad that America has come to this. I’ll probably come to France after the election, if (…)

I am a former Military Intelligence Analyst/Interrogator of 15 years service. I would ask you to carefully consider my observations and analysis re what I see as overlooked but significant aspects related to the Taguba Report and the testimony before Congress: 1. Excerpt from MG Taguba’s report. In one of the two previous reports used by M G Taguba as references for his, the third sequential, investigation (Italics are my emphasis): "With respect to interrogation, MG Miller’s Team (…)

I’m immigrant to USA, and have to say that what I knew before I come here, and now, is a big, big difference... I hope that good Americans will understand me... but there is huge number of biggots, racists, and worse, sadists and masohists, and they all like to humilate other people... this is true, you like it or not.
USA society is based on fear, humilation, greed, treatchary, brownnosing... And you can feel it in workplace, everywhere... it is the very nature of America... HUMILATION IS (…)

The Declaration of Independence
Action of First Continental Congress, July 4, 2005 The unanimous Declaration of the peoples of the United States of America
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires (…)

culled this from one of the dark internet sites a few months back. It was posted by someone claiming to be a U.S. soldier in Iraq. It has since been deleted from the site along with similar pictures.
I guess it is safe to presume that the U.S. tank driver, allowing himself to indulge in war-time passion, and breach international law in the process, took the time to swerve into and run over the head of downed Iraqi.
Instead of posting from the Geneva conventions, and as a rebuttal to the (…)

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld finishes his opening remarks as he testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill Friday, May 7, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Photo says it all
Carefully read Rummy’s edited draft opening comments...
It becomes clear Rummy’s apology was heartfelt, and he truly respects the Congress, oversight of lawmakers, and the american people...
Words, fail me... I’m unable to sufficently express my disgust and outrage.

By Robert L. Bastian Jr.
President Bush has asserted that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib "does not reflect the nature of the American people."
"That’s not the way we do things in America," he added.
In terms of aspirations, Bush is certainly correct: Americans generally do not regard themselves as arrogant, abusive, violent, mean, petty and ignoble. As a matter of empirical, verifiable fact, however, the best social scientific evidence suggests that the president is simply (…)

by Robert Fisk
First, our enemies created the suicide bomber. Now, we have our own digital suicide bomber, the camera. Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi. Take a close look at the leather strap, the pain on the prisoner’s face. No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash. (…)

Joanna Bourke, The Guardian
Friday May 7, 2004 - A woman ties a noose around a naked man’s neck and forces him to crawl across the floor. Uniformed people strip a group of hooded men, then laboriously assemble them into a pyramid. Men are forced to masturbate and simulate fellatio. In the past few days, we have all participated in the pornographic gaze. The sight of wide-eyed, grinning young men and women posing in front of their stripped and degraded captives has proved profoundly (…)