Wife and Son holding a picture of the dead Iraqi Prisoner in Abu Ghraib!

[trumad]

Oma Abdullah and son Mustapha, holding a photo of his father who died in U.S. custody

I wonder if the son will someday attend a Florida Flight School?



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5197853/site/newsweek/

[physioex]

1. Ewwwww....that's horrible!!!!!!

I wonder if these people realized the consequences of their actions. Now an US citizen is in their custody.....

[merh]

26. don't be fooled

There are similar horrors committed in our jails ever day. Its that mentality "us against them" "we good guys they bad". I've worked in corrections and have seen it. In addition to the sheer horror of the abuses, the reason the abuses make me so angry is that I know that lack of training is a cause of these types of horror. Our military has an obligation to properly prepare our troops (in addition to arm and protect). You will hear neocons say that Bush has improved the military from what was left to him by Clinton, well I disagree. The prison abuses is a perfect example of how poorly trained they are.
Please, won't our military and the administration support our troops.

[physioex]

30. I completely agree...EOM

[wtmusic]

2. Oh, ymean Iraqis have families too?

That puts everything in a whole new light... :eyes:

[MuseRider]

3. OMG!

That is just too horrible.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Anne Coulter would tell them to get over it

Unfortunately, there's a lot more evil from where that photo came from.

From this tiny corner of America, Oma Abdullah and Mustapha, my heart grieves for you.

[lpbk2713]

20. Oxy-Rush would call it a frat house prank............

The look on that poor kid's face is almost more than I can handle.

[Karenina]

5. I should NOT have clicked.

I REALLY MUST go to sleep now. Oh my stomach... I go to sleep now. Shit Trumad, can you put a graphic warning on this post?

[Southsideirish]

6. Incredible photo - "Miss America" grin...how sick are we?

What the hell has happened to this country?

[stavka]

12. Survivor, Playstation, Gangster Rap, Paris Hilton...need I go on?

[Joanne98]

27. Don't forget all the cop shows.........

Bad boys bad boys bad boys What you going to do when they come for you........THANKS HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stavka]

40. Cops - M.P.'s in Iraq! Special editon

Might I suggest running?

[Eric J in MN]

7. Thanks for posting this.

Senaator James M. Inhofe (R - Oklahoma) is "outraged by the outrage" and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) thinks it's like a fraternity hazing.

[physioex]

9. Remind me when..

These jerks are up for reelection..I am willing to chip in and get rid of these two jerks!!!

[Eric J in MN]

29. Steve King is up for re-election right now.

If you want to chip in to help the Democrat challenging him, her name is Joyce Schulte.


http://www.schulteforcongress.com/content/contribute.asp

[KittyWampus]

8. speechless

:(

[mopaul]

10. jeesus christ this is gettin' ugly

i wish i hadn't watched all those documentaries about the nazis

[fortyfeetunder]

11. Not just flight students..

<<I wonder if the son will someday attend a Florida Flight School?>>

They don't have to be flight students, they can major in engineering just like Osama binLaden did. Then they can practice "reverse engineering" if they so desire, KWIM?

[Rose Siding]

13. In the write up, the part of the human being is played by

the FBI while the CIA hawks take a fall for promoting torture techniques. But I don't recall hearing much before about CIA hawks- that's been relegated to the DoD civilians for the most part, hasn't it? -the exceptions being the JAG corp.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. Oh, holy shit!

This just gets worse as the days go by. :( How HORRENDOUS that is. I'm so ashamed to be an American.

[Cheswick2.0]

15. someone who has the ability needs to make a flash video

with this picture and the battlehymn of the republic playing and bush saying "they hate us for our freedoms, you are either with us or against us etc........".

[number6]

16. kick

..:(

[number6]

17. kick

..:(

[JohnLocke]

18. What will happen to that kid, I wonder...

[DrWeird]

19. Maybe he'll get raped by U.S. troops.

US troops like to round up the kids of their prisoners and beat and rape them in order to intimidate the prisoners. But than again, U.S. troops already killed his dad, so it's not like he's going to talk. Maybe they'll just do it out of spite.

[JohnLocke]

21. Maybe he will join Ansar al-Islam.

Thanks, neocons...

[Radical Activist]

22. This photographer should be given an award

I can count on one hand the photos I've seen that made me cry and this was one of them. It sums up so much of what is wrong with American attitudes and the media portrayal of this war. Iraqi's are not viewed as real human beings. We rarely hear Iraqi casualty numbers. This photo is what war is about.

[Deja Q]

23. But we liberated that country, isn't the price he paid worth it?

:eyes:

If death is freedom in the eyes of the neo-cons... :scared:

That's a very sad pic. The boy is sad, the mother holding back sheer anger - you can tell she's hiding her justified fury.

These are two more terrorists in the making because of the actions of our own terrorists in uniform. Of the guy whose eyes had been poked out no less. :puke: :cry:

[Octafish]

24. That picture tells the story.

The photo-op pretzeldent.

[Jacobin]

25. this country is soo fucked

the boy emperor george has screwed this country so bad its going to take many decades to recover.

If he's re-selected, it'll be the end of us.

[bearfan454]

50. You got that right.

PNAC legally pulled off.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

[Spazito]

28. This photograph encapsulates all that is horrific about the bush...

administration. Within that photo are all the memos trying to go around the rule of law to justify torture and murder, all the lies about WMD, all the Iraqis that have died for what? All the US soldiers that have died for what?

I can see little difference from what Saddam did to what the US is doing and, I suspect, neither can the people in the photograph.

[KayLaw]

31. Horrifying

The child looks so bewildered and betrayed. Honestly, I feel the same. How can this be happening and how can some people think this is all just fine and nothing to get upset about?

[mopaul]

32. I really believe the CAMERA is going to bring these assholes down

the camera, and the pen, and now the internet keyboard, are our greatest weapons against this type of insane tyranny.

i can actually imagine a mob bursting down the white house doors.

up to now, it's just been a pleasant fantasy, but with these photographs, it could actually happen.

[Disturbed]

33. Emailing that photo

I am going to email that photo to as many in Congress as I can.

This is one among the many War Crimes of BusCo!!!!

[KayLaw]

36. I don't think so

I think the administration foresaw the day its many outrages would become known and that's why we have the Patriot Act.

[oblivious]

34. PRISONER RAPE: It's "happening all across Iraq," she said.

Can anyone stop these monsters? If this was done to my child or sister or brother or mother, I would never rest. I would never forgive.

May 5, 2004
The investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who revealed the extent of the abuse, warned earlier last week: "It's going to get much worse. This kind of stuff was much more widespread.

"There are videotapes of stuff that you wouldn't want to mention on national television ... There were things done to young boys."

http://www.politrix.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=927

May 12, 2004
According to the New Yorker magazine the photos and videos so far unreleased by the Pentagon show American soldiers "having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner", and a secret report by General Antonio Taguba into the scandal confirms that US guards videotaped and photographed naked female prisoners and that "a male MP guard" is shown "having sex with a female detainee".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1214698,00.html

Hilas also said he witnessed an Army translator having sex with a boy at the prison. He said the boy was between 15 and 18 years old. Someone hung sheets to block the view, but Hilas said he heard the boy's screams and climbed a door to get a better look. Hilas said he watched the assault and told investigators that it was documented by a female soldier taking pictures.

"The kid was hurting very bad," Hilas said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001934908_documents21.html

May 25, 2004
The Taguba report confirms that some women were indeed raped by American G.I.'s. There is one photo of an American soldier having sex with an Iraqi woman.

..."She was the only woman who would talk about her case. She was crying. She told us she had been raped. Several American soldiers had raped her. She had tried to fight them off, and they had hurt her arm. She showed us the stitches. She told us, 'We have daughters and husbands. For God's sake don't tell anyone about this.' "

Although the Taguba report makes specific reference to the abuse of female Iraqi prisoners, the Bush administration has refused to release photos of Iraqi women forced at gunpoint to bare their breasts?no doubt to spare Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld further embarrassment.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0421/mondo2.php

June 6, 2004
Swadi and six other female Iraqi lawyers began investigating claims of sexual assault late last year after a note reportedly written by a prisoner named Noor was smuggled out of Abu Ghraib. The note claimed that US soldiers were raping female detainees, and in some cases, such as that of Noor herself, getting them pregnant. Swadi then began interviewing detainees who said they too had been assaulted or had witnessed assaults, The Guardian reports.

http://zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5653§ionID=15

June 10, 2004
U.S. military personnel have raped and sexually abused Iraqi women held at Abu Ghraib prison and other detention facilities.

Amal Kadham Swadi, an Iraqi attorney representing women detainees, told The Guardian she believes that sexualized violence and abuse committed by U.S. soldiers against female prisoners goes far beyond a few isolated cases. It's "happening all across Iraq," she said.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=478

[Deja Q]

43. These traitors in uniform... desecrating our country like this.

They can fuck each other behind closed tents, that's consensual and their business. But this is an outrage. Big-time. Aren't our troops supposed to be liberating the country? This certainly isn't liberation... and their acts are treasonous, the acts of TRUE traitors, for what they are doing is damaging America's reputation and credibility for decades to come.

[mopaul]

35. kompassionate kick

[trumad]

37. Kick for as long as it takes

[mopaul]

38. kick

[mopaul]

39. kickem in the fucking head for this

[trumad]

41. Kick

[mopaul]

42. kick for the tortured

[Solly Mack]

44. Dear Oma and Mustapha

I am so sorry. Please forgive us.

[RBHam]

45. Can't wait for CNN to cover this story!

GUFFAW!

[oblivious]

46. Interrogation abuses were "approved at highest levels"

June 13, 2004

New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House.

...The leak appears to be part of an extraordinary civil war in the Pentagon between civilian officials and uniformed officers appalled by what they have described as moves by political appointees to shroud the war on terrorism in an "environment of legal ambiguity".

..."There are some extremely damaging documents around, which link senior figures to the abuses," said Scott Horton, the former chairman of the New York Bar Association, who has been advising Pentagon lawyers unhappy at the administration's approach. "The biggest bombs in this case have yet to be dropped."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/13/wguan13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/13/ixworld.html

[spanone]

47. What the fuck is that woman in the picture thinking? God help her.

I think of the kid over here Paul Johnson III and his kidnapped father. What is wrong with this world? This kid will certainly not grow up to be a champion of 'democracy'.

[mopaul]

48. kick

[mopaul]

49. many more gruesome photos to come......just read it again

and as much as it pains me to say it, they will be much worse, and much more devastating to our nation. but i say release them, and let the whole world see war's face.

[bobbieinok]

51. .....

:kick: