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I guess it's cheesy and mainstream, but the Metallica WWI song seems apropos of the various veterans mutilated by those genocidal maniacs in the WH. "One" or similar. There is actually significant context there because in WWI times, reconstructive surgery was considerably less advanced, and soldiers with "broken faces" and blinded by the then-commonly-used gas weapons were numerous. Nowadays, medicine can save many of those who would have otherwise died in prior armed conflicts, but only at the expense of amputation and gross disfigurement, so recreating the phenomenon described (sensory deprivation as a result of mutilation due to injury in armed conflicts, though this phenomenon was not common in WWI and is not common now).
And maybe Rumsfeld or the psychiatrists in employ at Guantanamo et al are modern incarnations of Slayer's "Angel of Death" (originally about Mengele).
While Queensryche more directly address the socioeconomic factors at work, the personal tragedies of mutilation and disfigurement, and the personal responsibility for crimes against humanity, were addressed by Metallica and Slayer in their recordings from around the same time.
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