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July 23, 2004
Hersh - Torture Is Worse Than We Think

This has been going around for a few days, and I've been pointed to it by several alert readers (thanks Alec and Randy) but I'm only now finally getting a chance to watch the video or Seymour Hersh's speech to the ACLU.

He doesn't give too many details because he's not finished reporting on it, but he does say that the Pentagon has videos of the torture, which he describes as war crimes. He describes torture of women and children, including the rape of young boys by Americans.

Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok. Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib which is 30 miles from Baghdad [...]

The women were passing messages saying "Please come and kill me, because of what's happened". 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. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.

It's impossible to say to yourself how do we get there? who are we? Who are these people that sent us there?

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Watch the video here (Hersh's speech begins at about the 1:07 mark)

By way of counterpoint, remember how Rush Limbaugh compared the torture at Abu Ghraib to fraternity pranks? Yesterday, Rush said that the allegations of Sandy Berger taking copies of classified documents (9/11 Commissioners and the Justice Department have confirmed that nothing he may have taken was an original and they had access to everything he is alleged to have taken) out of a secure room is worse than Abu Ghraib.

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