I should be in bed, but Iraq calls to me
May. 16th, 2004 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaJosh Marshall tonight points out that Sy Hersh's New Yorker article (cited yesterday) and a major article in Newsweek by John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff converge, from apparently independent sources, on this conclusion about Abu Ghraib: The US set up an official black ops program to perform torture on suspected terrorists and then expanded that program onto Iraqi detainees.
Once you've officially set up a policy of torturing The Worst, it's a path of very small steps to start treating everyone in sight as The Worst. This is one of the reasons that civilized nations don't torture.
Of course, the Current US Occupying Force in the Oval Office has been deliberately blurring the line between "terrorists" and "Iraqis" since September 11th, 2001, and they've been handsomely rewarded for that.
Oh, and we're pulling troops from South Korea to fight in Iraq. Way to go, Rumsfeld!
Once you've officially set up a policy of torturing The Worst, it's a path of very small steps to start treating everyone in sight as The Worst. This is one of the reasons that civilized nations don't torture.
Of course, the Current US Occupying Force in the Oval Office has been deliberately blurring the line between "terrorists" and "Iraqis" since September 11th, 2001, and they've been handsomely rewarded for that.
Oh, and we're pulling troops from South Korea to fight in Iraq. Way to go, Rumsfeld!
