I don't know what's more disturbing, the pictures and stories themselves or the reaction of those that want to gloss over this because again, it undermines their need for nothing but rosy propaganda about our involvement in Iraq.
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Quote: (From Fridays hearings:)
Rumsfeld said there are many more photographs and videos that have not been made public yet.
"It's going to get still more terrible, I'm afraid," he said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he wants to "prepare the public: Apparently the worst is yet to come potentially in terms of disturbing events."
He later told reporters, "The American public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience."
He did not elaborate, but a Senate aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said senators have been told videotapes are believed to exist showing rape and the corpses of what are possibly murder victims. The tapes were described in an additional part of an investigative report. The Pentagon (news - web sites) has not yet submitted that additional part of the report to senators, the aide said.
Victims include Afghans and Iraqis, two of whom might have been murdered, the Pentagon says. Bush will talk to Arab media today.
By John Hendren and Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five Iraqi and Afghan war prisoners have died in U.S. custody in the last 17 months, including two Iraqi detainees who may have been murdered by Americans, senior defense officials said Tuesday as the Bush administration moved to contain international outrage over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
Pentagon officials released few details of the 25 deaths, which they said were among 35 cases of possible instances of prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers........
There also were suggestions that similar problems existed at facilities used to house Afghan war prisoners as early as 2001
WTF kind of [#@*&# thinks that these actions are much ado about nothing and are just the machinations of (again) the "liberals and the fucking "liberal media"? I suppose John Kerry and Tim Robbins and all the "liberals" went over there and forced them to turn the prison into a gulag so their "liberal" friends in the media could embarass Bush with that info.
went over there and forced them to turn the prison into a gulag so their "liberal" friends in the media could embarass Bush with that info.
