So Bushco is troubled about torture in Iraq

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4441128.stm

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Washington has said it is troubled by the alleged abuse of more than 170 detainees held by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and backs an investigation.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari has ordered an investigation into the alleged abuse of the detainees.

The prisoners, many malnourished and some showing signs of apparent torture, were found by US troops on Sunday.

The allegations come as the US faces pressure to be more transparent about the treatment of its prisoners.

The Bush administration has been swift to distance itself from these latest reports of prisoner abuse, reports the BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington.

The US is backing the Iraqi government inquiry and believes those responsible for mistreatment should be held to account.

Fresh allegations have also surfaced of US troops mistreating detainees.

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How many Iraqis have been killed, maimed and tortured by the US and UK? I'm trying real hard not to laugh.

When will those new photos be released?

[flordehinojos]

1. they are not troubled about the torture they are committing. they are

troubled about being caught committing said torture. (p.s. amy goodman had an excellent interview in her program yesterday, 11/15/05 with a military interrogator in Abu Ghraib...the man who did not commit some of the most egregious acts of torture did commit some less serious forms of torture (in his mind at least), and he heard of other types of torture being committed there. the man looked depressed to me. i worry for the sanity of the man.



i do so believe that so many of the veterans who have not been killed in iraqi and have returned home have suffered such psychological trauma that have forever derailed their lives and in cases like the miami guy it is too late to see those wounds. in the case of the man interviewed by amy goodman, his eyes looked so sad!)...


edited to ask: why is my middle paragraph being automatically omitted in its entirety? it speaks about a miami veteran who severely stabbed a groundskeeper in miami recently. the veteran was stopped by the police who shot and killed him before he killed the groundskeeper.

i was using that story to illustrate how these veterans have had their lives forever altered by the iraq experience...

and yes, the PFC interviewed by Amy Goodman looked so depressed! I hope he is getting help for his depresssion which I am willing to say stems from THE acts of torture he committed against other human beings along with having to sleep in a warehouse with over 500 fallujah dead bodies.

[malaise]

2. What a tragedy

what a mess.