I don't know how much more of this I can take without my head exploding

[womzilla]

From the AP:

U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday.
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"She was held for about six weeks without charge," the envoy told Wednesday's Evening Standard newspaper. "During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey. A harness was put on her, and an American rode on her back."

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"I am satisfied the case has now been resolved satisfactorily," the envoy told British Broadcasting Corp. radio Wednesday. "She got a visit last week from the authorities, and she is about to have her papers and jewelry returned to her."

via Josh Marshall.

Jesus wept.

Comments

[john-d-owen.livejournal.com]

Just how dumb are these guys? Dubya dumb, it looks like. A little tip for American soldiers everywhere: if you are 'liberating' a country you do not hand propaganda material to your opponents so that they can show the rest of the world you are really arrogant oppressors. It tends to be counter-productive.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

American readers may be interested to know the "envoy" is Ann Clwyd, a big booster of invading Iraq on humanitarian grounds. She was highly vocal on the subject of mass graves and rape rooms, when they were Saddam's.