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Abuse, torture, and videotape.(Scan)(Brief Article)
When the Abu Ghraib prison scandal became big news in May, several prominent Democratic politicians claimed that the abuse inflicted by American soldiers was on the same scale as that dished out by Saddam Hussein and his thugs. Senator Ted Kennedy said on the Senate floor that Abu Ghraib was simply "under new management: U.S. management." In a speech for MoveOn.org, former Presidential nominee Al Gore labeled the prison abuse scandal a "Bush gulag."
The Department of Defense recently released a video found in postwar Iraq showing exactly what transpired when Saddam's henchmen were in charge. The video is not for the faint of heart, showing sickening and grotesque images of pure sadistic violence. These include a prisoner's tongue being torn out of his mouth, a man's hand being surgically severed from his arm, and, in the final scene, a beheading.
Even though the video is shocking and revolting, the content on the tape is certainly ...
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...detainees by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib facility near Baghdad. More specifically...recent theoretical approaches to the Abu Ghraib photographs, and consider the extent...report containing photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (2) These photographs...
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...mistreated Iraqi prisoners in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, and Tuesday night he told the...reserve soldiers were who were guarding the Abu Ghraib prisoners -- and ultimately allowing...of those guards) would have stopped Abu Ghraib." When troops are not given adequate...
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