48 bodies found tortured in Baghdad (Wednesday)

[antiimperialist]

Police said they found 48 bodies with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in different areas of Baghdad.
Details on other incidents here in the mess that is Iraq here:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL663352.htm

[uppityperson]

1. k&r, send to anyone who compares Iraq to USA Major City.

[RogueBandit]

2. What's with the abuse?

Why are they showing up like this? Dead, well I can kinda see...it is war after all.

By why torture?

Is really gangsters staking out territory? That's what I'm thinking.

John

[psychopomp]

3. If your mother was killed in a market by a suicide bomber

you might want to drill a few skulls, too. Of course, that is just an extreme hypothetical but you see what I am getting at, don't you?

[OneBlueSky]

4. can you imagine the outrage if 48 Americans were tortured and killed . . .

on the same day? . . . in a state or region the size of Iraq? . . .

why is this somehow less important, less worthy of notice, or any less horrific because it's happening to Iraqis in Iraq? . . . this apathy to carnage is a huge failure of American morality -- particularly since it's happening because we invaded and occupied a sovereign nation that didn't threaten us in any way . . .

just once I'd like to see the media express -- and the public feel -- the sense of horror and regret that's due these victims . . . it's particularly disgusting when people who consider themselves "religious" have no empathy whatsoever because, after all, "they're only Iraqis" (sometimes expressed, sometimes merely implicit) . . .

every one of these individuals had a mother, a father, sons, daughters, grandparents, cousins, nieces, nephews and/or others who loved them just as much as (most) Americans love their families and friends . . . relegating their stories to a brief mention on Page 18B -- or not mentioning them at all -- says a lot about American ethics and morality, and it's pretty ugly . . .

[2Design]

5. Been wondering if this are from the secret prisons of BFEE

or other torture chambers of current admin or from the contractors - no more abu grab and insted this - just wondering - since we taught torture and the arabs seem to favor beheadings - it would seem it came from westerns