Iraqi Prisoner Details Abuse by Americans

Washington Times ^ | 5/02/04 | AP

[kattracks]

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.

[MEG33]

I could not watch it all..May the perps roast in hell.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fact that he is still alive and well speaks volumes about how much torture the little crybaby endured.

[caspera]

Most of you don't give a rat's ass about the Iraqi people, so how could your claim to want to "liberate" them be taken seriously by anyone?

Hey, I gave a rat's ass until Iraqi civilians started lynching American civilians and jumping up and down like savages celebrating everytime an American gets killed. That tends to dim my view of these people.

Did the US soldiers abuse and mistreat these prisoners? Yes. Did they "torture" them? Emphatically, no. If you can prove they were tortured [i.e. their bodies were damaged or penetrated], I would be upset. But even according to this guys own account, he was not tortured, but rather hazed.

Any time I'm tempted to believe the story line that we went to Iraq to liberate people, I just come to this site and it sets me straight.

So why did we go there? And you act as if our soldiers were treating everyone this way. How do you know that the people so mistreated are not terrorists?

I don't really approve of what our soldiers did, but please keep things in perspective.

[Jeff Gordon]

"They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman," al-Shweiri said.

It is hard to sympathetic with a guy that thinks like this.

[texasflower]

It sounded like just a strip search to me also.

[new cruelty]

Al-Shweiri said that while jailed by Saddam's regime, he was electrocuted, beaten and hung from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back.

"But that's better than the humiliation of being stripped naked," he said. "Shoot me here," he added, pointing between his eyes, "but don't do this to us."

This reads like it was written by Scrapple Face or the onion. If nothing else, our M.I. has learned that all that is needed to break the will of "die hard" al-Mahdi fighters is to look at them while they are naked.

[thatcher]

 As they did during the The Clinton administration; his apologists have effectively colored the dialogue by drowning out the facts in a sea of spin, and they have even been able to change the dynamic of the facts to suit their own diabolical manifesto.

Military institutional policy.

Fact:

1. A young man who saw what was going on was able to report the problem immediately. The military took immediate action.
2. The idiots who were doing this were locked up, the crime was investigated and they are, as we speak on their way to trial.
3. These photos, that we have been seeing, are photos that were evidently stolen from the militaries evidence file to prosecute these cases.
4. There is no wrong doing on the part of the military here, only that of a few individual who were acting as individuals, not doing the military's work.
5. We can not hold other responsible for what another individual chooses to do; especially when the 'others' have done everything that they can do to stop the crime as soon as they knew about it. 
6. Blaming Rumsfeld, is like blaming a police chief for a crime happening in his precinct, after his officers have already picked up the criminal, have him sitting in jail awaiting trial.

When the Democrats fearless leader was caught red handed lying in a court of law, not only as the president of the United States of America, but as a lawyer, (for which he later lost his license to practice) he made the country go through a politicized impeachment process and still would not step down.  When clinton finally left office, he spent the last hours of that time pardoning criminals who had paid him off.

When we bring up example from the clinton administration to demonstrate the democrat's lack of sincerity; to show that they are care nothing about the principles involved; only about the opportunity to bring their hated enemy, ( the hated enemy is the one who does not think emotionally and opportunistically like them). they will say something like 'two wrongs do not make a right ~ nor do more wrongs make anything right. Ironically, President Clinton refused to admit that he committed crimes that he obviously committed (perjury and obstruction of justice).