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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:33 PM Original message |
Did you know that the Abu Ghraib Abuse First Exposed was the Rape of Female Prisoners? |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. I just posted on another thread Sy Hersh's report on sodomizing children in 2004 |
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ellie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Jesus, what |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Some VERY SICK MFers! |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
36. Our tax dollars at work |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Funny how even the newly 'left-leaning' M$M won't talk about this and other grizzly details |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Corporate M$M does not permit such things to be discussed. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. That's exactly what I was alluding to, and begs the question: |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 02:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Guess I've got a bad habit of restating the obvious (at least what is obvious to most DUers) |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. We're the internets, we can make them cover it. |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Yep, K&R |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. eh - it was just |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Their crimes? "merely because of who they are married to" |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. I also remember... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. Well, the poor, misundertood, rapists were under a lot of pressure... |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Indeed. They should just let poor Steven Green go also. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. They tortured "in Good Faith".... |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. they were skeeeeert! what would you do if some people whose country you invaded |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. Here is a thread from 2004 that the link to that article and much more.... |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. horrid. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. I would like to see those pictures that they hid away from all of us too. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. You won't hear that on MSN. |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. The rape of female prisoners was why insurgents were firing mortars into the prison |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Abu Ghraib is about 30-40 Km from Falujah. The families of those prisoners |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:11 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. The mortar fire into the prison was before the insurgency exploded |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Right. So between the beginning of the abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib |
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lazyriver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. Sickening and shameful. How can we move forward as a nation |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
21. GEORGEE |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
24. mad mom, one of the first pieces of information in American news |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
26. Yep, just like Central America realize |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
29. Despicable. If there are photographs ANYWHERE, they need to be released. |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 10:26 AM Response to Reply #29 |
44. So many pictures taken of all the torture. There must be documentation of this as well. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-25-09 01:19 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Can't help but wonder if these photos weren't a "desired by-product" by |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-25-09 05:45 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Yes, all these photos were taken for clear and specific reasons. |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
30. What can be done to help these women and children? |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:00 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I sent it to Rachel. With the Repubs attempting to make torture JUST "enhanced |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:24 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Thank you very much Mod Mom. |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:28 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Sadly I believe many Americans have been desensitized to waterboarding. Hearing these |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Yes on all points. If these events do not horrify Americans, we are lost |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 08:04 AM Response to Reply #32 |
40. What about KO and the Rude Pundit? |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 08:09 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I no longer have an email to KO and never had to RP. Please forward if you do. |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 08:54 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Will try and find their adddies....and get the info to them. |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 10:22 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I just sent the link to KO and Rude asking them for help. |
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ihavenobias (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
31. K & R n/t |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
37. I say turn the rapists over to the Iraqis and let them make the monsters wish... |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
38. If several women prisoners were pregnant I want to know what happened to the babies |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Yes, those babies are very much on my mind as well. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 10:31 AM Response to Reply #38 |
46. War babies are not welcomed anywhere. This culture is no more savage than |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-25-09 05:46 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. I fear you are correct. Their fate cannot be good. I wish we could help them. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
45. I blame the Executive Branch first and foremost for this - The TONE is set from the top down. |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-25-09 05:54 AM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Yes the tone was clear from the top, there is no doubt. |
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Sultana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-25-09 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
51. Ashamed to be American |
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