Abu Ghraib Was Hell, U.S. Soldier Tells Abuse Hearing

[RamboLiberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040806_292.html

Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was hell, a dangerous place staffed by poorly trained guards and short on such basics as soap and men's underwear for inmates, a U.S. soldier testified on Friday.

The testimony drew a disturbing picture of peril and turmoil at the jail near Baghdad on the fourth day of a military court hearing to determine if Pfc. Lynndie England, the female soldier photographed holding a naked Iraqi prisoner on a leash, will stand trial for prisoner abuse.

The abuse scandal shocked the world and hampered U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq amid a bloody insurgency.

Sgt. Hydrue Joyner, a member of England's 372nd Military Police Company, called Abu Ghraib hell and said he considered it a highly dangerous place when he arrived in October because "the whole prison system was corrupt."

The plain-spoken soldier described a prison painfully short on supplies where he handed out personal items from his own "Care" packages from home because the place smelled. Prisoner jumpsuits were scarce and male inmates were given underwear meant for women inmates because it was the only thing available.

[DulceDecorum]

1. underwear meant for women inmates!!!

So these bastards had prepared to capture and jail scores of Iraqi women???

That is why they had so much women's underwear lying around?
And nothing for the MEN??
And we are supposed to believe that all this happened BY ACCIDENT!!!

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/4786/1/148/
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/strange/012904_sn_pinkunderware.html
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,570928,00.html

No wonder they call that Fort
Bragg.

[TahitiNut]

3. WalMart overstock sold to Halliburton and resold to Army

... as "unisex." (Don't ask; don't tell.) :evilgrin:

[acmavm]

2. Crap, the American tax payer has dumped so much money into this

frigging fiasco that we should be able to clothe every Iraqi man, woman, and child in designer undies.

[annabanana]

4. One of them actually said that

the prisoners were NAKED BY CHOICE!

How can anyone say something like this with a straight face?