Worth repeating

"I would like to apologize for our nation and for our military for the small number of soldiers who committed illegal or unauthorized acts here at Abu Ghraib," Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller told Arab and Western reporters taken on a military tour of the prison.

"These are violations not only of our national policy but of how we conduct ourselves as members of the international community," Miller said.

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In late August and early September, 2003, a team from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, visited Iraq to see whether it could help U.S. forces there obtain better information from detainees. That team was overseen by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, commander at Guantanamo.

Among its recommendations were that military police guards act as "an enabler for interrogation," Taguba's report found.

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Miller

As Miller spoke to reporters in cellblock 1A, where the photos showing prisoner abuse were taken, five women inmates screamed, shouted and waved their arms through the iron bars.

"I've been here five months," one woman shouted in Arabic. "I don't belong to the resistance. I have children at home."

Let's not forget there have been documented (who knows how many truly) 25 deaths of "detainees" in custody. Maybe that should have caused some questioning of what was going on. Just a suggestion.

Don't fool yourself. This incident of the photos at Abu Ghraib was not isolated, and it was neither unknown nor appalling to those in charge.

As for our esteemed congresspeople, they are as useless as tits on a boar. I personally have had links to interviews, documentaries, and other reports of torture and abuse of detainees in the "war on terror" on my web pages (torture of Iraqis; Gitmo torture), some of it for over a year. The information exists and has existed for anyone who gives a crap about what's going on.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.