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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-17-09 04:30 PM
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41. Wikipedia says that Hersh said his statements regarding this were misconstrued
Edited on Sun May-17-09 04:31 PM by Jennicut
Per Wiki:
Some of Hersh's speeches concerning the Iraq War have described violent incidents involving U.S. troops in Iraq. In July 2004, during the height of the Abu Ghraib scandal, he alleged that American troops sexually assaulted young boys:
“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children, in cases that have been recorded, the boys were sodomized, with the cameras rolling, and the worst above all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. That your government has. They’re in total terror it’s going to come out. ”

In a subsequent interview with New York magazine, Hersh regretted that "I actually didn’t quite say what I wanted to say correctly...it wasn’t that inaccurate, but it was misstated. The next thing I know, it was all over the blogs. And I just realized then, the power of—and so you have to try and be more careful." In his book, Chain of Command, he wrote that one of the witness statements he had read described the rape of a boy by a foreign contract interpreter at Abu Ghraib, during which a woman took pictures.

So it was a foreign contract interpreter and NOT US troops that did this? I don't know, its from Wiki. Who knows how accurate they are?
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