Tuesday, May 04, 2004

ABU GHRAIB
Just when you think there can't be much more bad news...Here's Seymour Hersh's report on the Abu Ghraib prison atrocities. I don't think I need to dwell on how extremely bad this is, and the best and only way to deal with it is to make justice swift and punishment severe for all of those involved, as high up in the chain of command as possible. We need to see careers ruined over this.

There is possibly a tiny bit of lemonade to be made of these lemons: In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, torture was an accepted part of daily reality. Torturers were encouraged and promoted. The people of Iraq, and the Arab world, need to see that the U.S. punishes such people.

posted by Matt Duss @ 11:46 AM

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