Let's Pay Off The Abused Iraqis! Then We'll Be Good Again!!!

[thecrow]

I can't believe that Rummy suggested that the abused prisoners will be paid "compensation" for all this.
First, because it's such a typically Amercian fat cat response to anything. Oh, we'll just pay them. Right. As if that will ever erase the shame and nightmares they'll have for the rest of their lives. These people are MUSLIMS. They regard sex as a very sacred thing, a very private thing. They are probably more conservative that the Religious Right. And Rummy introduces the suggestion that he will PAY THEM OFFF???
:vomit:

Will this obscenity never end???

[Jacobin]

1. I wonder if the new "government" will allow class action lawsuits

:o)

[Eric J in MN]

2. They should be paid generous compensation.

They should be paid generous compensation.

They deserve it.

Paying compensation never heals psychological wounds, but it's something.

Of course that isn't the solution, but paying compensation is one part of the solution.

We also need more oversight, more specific laws, prosection of those who gave the orders, access for human rights organizations and journalists, and so forth.

[ewagner]

3. Afghanistan?

Didn't we offer tons of cash to the families of civilians killed as "collateral damage" in Afghanistan?

I think I remember reading that we were handing out fists full of cash in Iraq also.

Is this SOP?

[cliss]

4. Thanks for the thread, TC.

I read the same thing from Rumsfeld's testimony yesterday. How easy, I thought. Just pay them. Send them a check for their pain and anguish, and everything should be OK. My next thought was, so how will they pay them. Do they put ads in the paper looking for sexually abused former prisoners? And how much do they compensate them? Let's see...

slapped.......$50.00
punched.......$75.00
beaten........$100.00
forced to stand naked $500.00
sodomized.............$1,500.00
raped.................same reimbursement
forced to wear dog collar around neck while nude....$2,750.00
photos taken while being sodomized.........$4,500.00
filmed while being sodomized...............$5,000.00

Can you visualize this?

[ewagner]

8. Not hard to imagine

In some ways you can see the bureaucracy at work putting together a schedule of fees and appropriate "guidelines".

No matter how they try, they can't trivialize the stain put on our credibility.

[salinen]

5. In the land where gold is the god

anything can be bought, even shame.

[thecrow]

6. I'm just mad

That this was one of the first things out of Rummy's mouth.
It just seemed to me to be adding insult to injury.

Sure compensation is a good thing to do, but shouldn't we have acted as if there was nothing that could compensate them in the first place? Maybe then we could have not had this situation to begin with.

"If all else fails, pay out" seems like a pretty shabby government policy to me.

[stellanoir]

7. human dignity is. . .

truly priceless. . .

put it on Rummy's Master Card. Not mine.