QandO

May 07, 2004

It keeps getting worse
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If you think the things we've heard about at Abu Ghraib are bad, wait until the other shoe drops. According to the Miami Herald, to which, unfortunately, I can't link directly because registration is required, there are photos and even videos of far worse things than we've already seen.

In two tense congressional hearings that attracted Pentagon brass and war protesters, Rumsfeld warned that unreleased videos and photos depict far worse treatment of Iraqis than the widely distributed pictures of naked detainees in humiliating poses that spawned worldwide outrage recently.

"There are other photos that depict incidents of physical violence towards prisoners, acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman," he said. "There are many more photographs and indeed some videos. Congress and the American people and the rest of the world need to know this."

In fact, it appears that it's about as bad as it can be. As the story points out, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told the press today, "We're talking about rape and murder here, we're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience."

If this is true, heads had better roll.

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