http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/27/abu-ghraib-abuse-photos-i_n_208430.html
The hard truth is that the Bush Administration and the Military made a mockery of our so-called American values. That they used a tragedy to "go to the dark side" (as Cheney himself put it) and perform horrific acts of vengance against whomever they dragged into their torture chambers. The fact that we actually employ torturers is probably the first problem. Torturers do not have a place in our world, no matter what the intelligence value. Eventually, this all backfires, and we look worse and it creates more formidable foreign policy problems than we started with. And yes, of course rape happened and still likely happens in all those dark places where we keep prisoners without trial. Children, women, men, it makes no difference to those in power and those that seek the cover of those in power to perform their dark arts. Rape and torture go hand in hand, and anyone who doesn't see this is in denial. I'm disgusted that this was done in my name. I'm disgusted that anyone who considers themselves a good person could condone this. I'm deeply saddened that this is the image we've chosen to show the Middle East via the stupidity of the Bush cronies and neo-cons. I'm disappointed in our military that they can't control their soldiers, or that they condone rape as a torture method. Sure, everyone is going to deny everything, because no one wants to go to jail or be thrown out of their church. We all know what happens in war: you take young men, turn them into killers, then release them on unsuspecting civilians. You take backwoods hick national guardsmen, and set them loose on the brown-skinned people, what do you think will happen? I'm ashamed to be in any way involved in this whole atrocity known as the Iraq war.
http://www.aztlan.net/iraqi_women_raped.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=858
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/leaked-torture-photos-published-in-2006-may-be-among-photographs-obama-administration-shielding/
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/151362.pdf
