How the tides had turned… here is a quote about the infamous Abu Ghraib facility…. from the Saddam time

“We visited the notorious Abu Gehb (sic) Prison outside Baghdad and found written records of prisoners being executed by being put through mincing machines.” “Saddam Hussein never cut corners when it came to punishment. Abu Ghraib once held tens of thousands of human souls — criminals, political enemies, and those who just happened to get in the way. A 12-year-old Iranian boy visiting his grandmother near Basra in 1985 was swept up in an Iraqi invasion. He was still here 15 years later.”

“I saw three guards beat a man to death with sticks and cables,” one prisoner remembered. “When they got tired, the guards would switch with other guards. I could only watch for a minute without getting caught, but I heard the screams, and it went on for an hour.”

“Our hands were tied like this. First the left hand and then the foot. Then a black hood on my head, then they applied electricity.”

I guess there is something about Abu Ghraib and that black hood… because we now all know, it happened again… after the US took control.

It seems like no matter which side holds that prison… they all seem to act the same way… and that is the same twisted bullshit, coming full circle.

According to U.S. State Department propaganda released in April 2003 to justify the march toward war, Saddam killed 4,000 prisoners at the institution in 1984, and executed about 50 political prisoners there between 2000 and 2001. You’d think that this represented progress, but to the U.S. it was a reason to invade… and we all can’t forget the “weapons of mass destruction” that US intelligence KNEW he was hiding.

Anyway, Saddams brutality at Abu Ghraib was unimaginable to the US… that torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners just can no longer go on… So the US marched on, and into Abu Ghraib.

When the U.S. came storming into the country in spring of 2003, Abu Ghraib was left a smoldering ruin, looted by the local populace as the Saddam regime disintegrated. The Americans came in and thought to themselves, “Hey, wouldn’t it be great if we used this ghoulish house of horrors for our own prison?”

WOW how things changed at Abu Ghraib! the totally sick and twisted Abu Ghraib prison got the US reform! yes… the US policy for the humane treatment of prisoners came to shine like the North star… or maybe that light at the end of some tunnel somewhere.

One of the US generals, Gen. Janis Karpinski came right out and said it. “Living conditions (for the prisoners) now are better in prison than at home. At one point we were concerned that they wouldn’t want to leave,”

Hell, who wants to leave? Its just like home… I always get chased around the yard by my dog at home, I always get forced into homosexual acts at home, I always walk around in the black hood at home…. and wait…. myself and all the neighbors love to do that nude dogpile act at home! I lways get the broom stick shoved up my ass at home… don’t you?

anyway, here is the list of what they did admit to… what they did not admit to we shall never know.

a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet; b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;

c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;

d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;

e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear;

f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;

g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;

h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;

i. (S) Writing “I am a Rapest” (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;

j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;

k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;

l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;

m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.

a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;

b. (U) Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol;

c. (U) Pouring cold water on naked detainees;

d. (U) Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;

e. (U) Threatening male detainees with rape;

f. (U) Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell;

g. (U) Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.

h. (U) Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.

The… when word came out to the press about these new reforms at the Abu Ghraib prison facility… what did the press do?  60 Minutes  held off running the story at the request of General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

I thought the press was to report on such matters… this is a country of “freedom of speech” and disclosure of government officials wrong doings ….hmmm?

then…

May 7, 2004, Rumsfeld told a Senate panel that there may be video of the abuse at Abu Ghraib. According to the New Yorker’s Sy Hersh, the tapes include footage of male minor prisoners being raped.

so lets add rape of a minor to the above list of why the prisoners just LOVE the stay at Abu Ghraib, since the US took over… and may never wanna go home again! Hell, who ever wants to go home from the Neverland Ranch.

this is a photo gallery of the Abu Ghraib prison, most are pictures while under US care… a few may be under Saddam… you figure out which is which… cuz I sure can’t

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