More Torturous Stories

More stories of torture by US operatives are coming to light. The NY Times has a story today on how the ACLU has turned up new files detailing torture stories in Afghanistan and Iraq. It sickens me to hear about such stuff, done with my tax dollars. I sometimes feel we have abandoned all morality in this country. And it seems to get worse and worse, with no one higher up punished for allowing (or encouraging) this to happen. Common sense would tell you that soldiers and CIA operatives don't do this and take pictures of it, and then circulate them around, post them as screensavers on their computers - if they thought what they were doing was against the rules, or going to get them in trouble. And the vast majority of the American population says ill-informed or uninformed of what is happening. Here's a piece of what the NY Times article said:

"A cache of documents disclosed Thursday provides several instances of prisoner abuse by American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq that appeared to have been investigated only briefly. The documents, released by the American Civil Liberties Union, include one file...."

The whole article is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/politics/18abuse.html?pagewanted=all

Also in the NY Times is an article on Najaf. Six months after the US-Sadr fighting, large sections of the city lie in ruins, with significant gas and electricity shortages. Tourists have not returned. The US authorities (via the military) has done some compensation in Najaf, with the largest amount being $2,500 for the death of a child. (AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS THE NUMBER OF CIVILIANS KILLED IN IRAQ IS UNKNOWABLE!!! - THIS IS A FLAT OUT LIE!)

This article in the NY Times claims the locals (at least the ones they interviewed) blamed Sadr's militia, not the US troops. This same person that they interviewed claims he would hang up a picture of Bush in his business, but he is afraid to do so. But, I really don't think he would be afraid of blaming the US troops for the destruction in his city, in light of the fact that what he was saying was going into the largest newspaper in the USA. No, we all know that the US would not retaliate towards anyone in Iraq, just for expressing an opinion. That's like saying the US troops would round up innocent people in Iraq and then TORTURE them. Ridiculous, really. (oh, wait, wait, see above).

Well the NY Times did get one thing right in this article: they mentioned that it was SISTANI that ended the fighting. Lots of US fools like to think the US won that one.....

"It gets a little worse every day" (guess who said that?)