Just heard a soldier say he was warned off stopping torture by Iraq death squads by superiors on CNN

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I kind of had a suspicion that was going on. I don't think I could stand by as people were torturing other people and keep my sanity.

Don

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1. That's why our vets are eating bullets.

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2. Here it is

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/17/siu.02.html

<snip>KEVIN MORRIS, U.S. SNIPER: The MOI was an 11-story building, kind of rectangular in shape. We had observation posts on the east and west side in the upper floors.

ROBERTS: Morris took pictures through his rifle sight as police brought prisoners into the ministry compound below.

MORRIS: Well, they were forced onto their knees. Their shirts were stripped off their back. And at first they were just beaten with rubber hoses. There were sometimes as many as two or three individuals that were beating the one bound and blindfolded prisoner.

As time progressed and they worked their way through people, the beatings got more severe. At one point, a metal bar was used. They were tying their feet and elevating them and then beating the soles of their feet.

ROBERTS: Morris alerted his superiors. And U.S. troops soon arrived to put a stop to the torture. But after an hour, they were ordered to withdraw. The prisoners were later transferred to proper jails but not before, Morris says they were beaten again.

MORRIS: When we returned to the patrol base, there was a general order, a generalized order, not to speak of the incident.