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Former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and several high level officials are now facing war crime charges for their alleged involvement in the abuse that took place in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Abu Ghraib is notoriously known because of the incident in 2003 when pictures showing the abuse and torture of prisoners started appearing on the news. Seven low level servicemen were convicted and this was considered to be an isolated incidence. Now the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a New York based law firm, is filing a law suit with the German Republic Lawyers Association (LAV) against...

Thursday, March 23, 2006 Abu Ghraib Dog Sentenced to Live with ACLU Lawyer David Lane With the sentence handed down yesterday that Sgt. Michael J. Smith of Fort Lauderdale must serve 179 days in prison, many wondered about the consequences for the snarling dog the solder used to help relieve constipated Iraqi prisoners. That issue was cleared up last night in a private session of the court, when it was revealed the dog would be adopted by ACLU Lawyer David Lane, who currently represents semi-notable liberals Ward Churchill and Jay Bennish. At the reading of the terms the dog whined...

The photos America doesn't want seen More snaps from Abu Ghraib … some of the photographs the US Government has been fighting to keep secret of the prison in Iraq. By Matthew Moore February 15, 2006 MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union. Although a US judge last year granted the...

Wife of Jailed Soldier Says Tactics Were in Place From Start By Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 23, 2006; Page A03 Stepping into the Abu Ghraib prison for the first time, Megan Ambuhl was stunned. There were naked men in dusty cells, male prisoners wearing women's underwear, others hooded and shackled in contorted positions to metal railings. An enlisted officer giving her a tour of the U.S. facility in October 2003 pointed to a group of detainees chained to a cell. He said the bars had often "been decorated like a Christmas tree," with prisoners as ornaments.

His Arrogance, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein and the self-aggrandizing ACLU know that the psychotic islamofascists will be inflamed by the redundant Abu Graib photos.

SAN ANTONIO - Army Pfc. Lynndie England will abandon her earlier courtroom strategy and fight charges that she was a key participant in prisoner abuse by guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, her lawyer said. The 22-year-old reservist, made infamous by a series of graphic photos taken inside Abu Ghraib, goes on trial Tuesday at Fort Hood, Texas, on seven counts of mistreating prisoners. She will be the last of a group of junior enlisted soldiers charged with Abu Ghraib abuses to have their cases resolved. Two have been convicted at trial, while six others made plea deals and received...

Weekend-connected left-wing rant, second of two. Sunday night on HBO's Six Feet Under, a drama revolving around a family which runs a funeral home, a major character launched into a rant about the "stupid, evil war" in Iraq and how "we didn't go to war to protect Iraqi civil liberties. That's just a lame justification." The young woman was soon yelling about the Abu Graib abuse and how "those orders came down from the top, the top! And there's memos to prove it!" The show's writers allowed her boyfriend, a minor character in the program, to disagree with, prompting her...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Our war against terror is in trouble now. Lawyers from some of our most prestigious law firms are trundling down to Guantanamo Bay to represent detainees. If any group in America can bring a project to foozle it would be a group of American lawyers intent on humanitarian service. It is only a matter of time before a new Ramsey Clark Jr. emerges to fill American courts with bogus legal charges to stoke international anti-Americanism. Then accomplished poseurs such as the Clintons and Jean-Francois Kerry can chirp about how the whole world is increasingly hostile to us....

She shouldn’t spend a day in jail. Pfc. Lynndie England. Somebody should give her a stern talking to, dock her a couple of week’s pay and kick her out of the Army. And then she should go back to her trailer in West Virginia and disappear into the woodwork. But no way should she go to jail. You know who she is. She’s the ugly female soldier holding the leash, the idiot with the cigarette pointing to the family jewels of some naked Iraqis. They had her in court yesterday and had her plead guilty to seven counts of nonsense....

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and will not be punished, officials said Friday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents attacked the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, injuring 44 U.S. forces and 12 prisoners, the U.S. military said Sunday, while six people were killed elsewhere in Iraq following a period of declining attacks that had raised hopes the insurgency might be weakening. At least 40 militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and set off two car bombs at the infamous prison as darkness fell Saturday night, 1st Lt. Adam Rondeau said. Soldiers and Marines stationed at the detention facility responded, and the resulting clash and gunfight lasted about 40 minutes. No one escaped. "This was obviously...

Does the Right remember the Abu Graib? asks the Washington Post. Only someone who chooses to read very small portions of the news would ask such a question. One example would be Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post in her article bearing the title in the first sentence. Of course the right remembers this incident. Does "the left" remember that the involved soldiers are under investigation and will be punished if they are found guilty. Should AMERICANS get any less than a fair investigation. Is Ms. Applebaum suggesting the Americans be treated and tried by the same measures as Al-queda,...

Memo: Workers Threatened Over Prison Abuse SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment, according to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The special forces also monitored e-mails sent by defense personnel and ordered them "not to talk to anyone" in the United States about what they saw, said one memo written by the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, who complained to his Pentagon bosses about the harassment. In addition, the special forces confiscated photos of a prisoner who had...

While the International Red Cross, Amnesty International and other human rights groups have focused their ire on the alleged "torture" of terrorist suspects at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the human rights lobby has been silent on the torture of millions of Muslims not in U.S. captivity. A survey reported Wednesday by the London Guardian found that women in Egypt, for instance, are regularly beaten by their husbands - and accept that form of torture as a fact of life under Islamic law. The survey - sponsored by the Egyptian government - found that one woman in three had been...

NEW YORK - Suggesting the government was acting as if it had something to hide, a federal judge Wednesday gave Washington one month to release records related to the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein chastised officials for moving at a "glacial pace" in responding to nearly year-old Freedom of Information Act requests from the American Civil Liberties Union and four other watchdog organizations. "If the documents are more of an embarrassment than a secret, the public should know of our government's treatment of individuals captured and held abroad," Hellerstein wrote. "We are a nation that...

..."There was no policy of abuse at Abu Ghraib," said a four-member commission headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. "Quite the contrary." ...But those heinous acts did not result from any "authorized interrogation" or — as some of the soldiers now under charges have alleged — officially sanctioned attempts at intelligence-gathering. In fact, the report says, they were "freelance activities of the night shift at Abu Ghraib" — a point underscored by the fact that no mistreatment took place on other shifts. Yet circumstances at Abu Ghraib were tailor-made for the abuse that followed. "There was chaos at Abu...

It's a shame that little old Chris Felice has to do the media's homework for them. As some of you are aware, there was a new Abu Graib prison scandal story that came out this week. As we all know, the Democrats and their accomplices in the mainstream media are keeping this scandal percolating in the likely event that President Bush wins in November. This way, they can open the door to a possible impeachment of the president because of this "so called" scandal. Anyway, the new Abu Graib story was written by Professor Steven Miles, a Dr. at the...

Alright, this is my third shot at posting this. Apparently, Angelfire and Freewebspace have both decided to disallow hotlinking at the same time. Go figure. This is the second cartoon I've posted here. I've got one about Air America ready, but I'm waiting for some fresh news about them to come out to post it.

Responding today to a question someone had asked earlier in the week---"What will the libs do when Bush wins in November?"---Rush issued the downer of the week: They already have an insurance plan, which is to try to impeach Bush over the prison "abuses." That is why, he continued, the media is still beating this dead horse (no prison pun intended). Naive me, I had actually thought we might be past this, but Rush cited an article quoting "The Swimmer," Sen. Ted Kennedy, answering a question about a move to impeach Bush, in which he said something to the effect...

I was struck by how shocked members of the senate were upon viewing additional pictures of the undisciplined, unprincipled freaks masquerading as members of our military at Abu Graib prison. Keep in mind, according to reports from the senators themselves, most of the additional pictures were of our soldiers having sex with each other — male soldiers having sex with female soldiers, that is. Senators such as Feinstein and Campbell expressed absolute shock at the pictures they saw. I’m shocked at how out-of-touch our senators seem to be when it comes to the nature of what happened at Abu Graib....