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Abu Ghraib: Could the worst be yet to come?

 

  Today's Daily Mislead focuses on more lies the Bush Administration told us concerning what went on in the prison, why it did, and who knew authorized at least some of it.  Beyond the chain of events that have been publicized already and the strengthening of links to senior Bush Administration officials, if what investigative journalist Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker alleged during his address to the ACLU (here's a link to a streaming video of the event, with his comments coming roughly ninety minutes into the video.) To be fair, if no such videotape of children being sodomized come to light - and the only reason for them being kept would be, well, probably the same degree of depravity that would have led to the acts themselves - they'll remain nothing more than terrible charges.

 

  Additional note: Something I meant to mention at the time, but somehow forgot to, is that I'm all too aware of the propaganda value of this sort of story, and so want to sound a note of caution in the lack of solid evidence. Whenever a tale of atrocity arises I recall how we were lied to as a nation by a supposed Kuwaiti nurse, testifying on the floor of the US Senate back before the Gulf War. There she spun a tearful, and ultimately completely false, tale of Iraqi soldiers throwing premature babies from incubators so that they could use them for culturing bioweapons. At the time I was suckered in with oh so many, and I still feel the burn from that bit of gullibility.