What the hell is wrong with these people!! Is this what Bush/Blair envisioned when fighting a ‘war on terror?’ Is this how they intended to free the Iraqi people of Saddam Hussein’s regime? When disgusting images such as these get released to the media it begs the question — why on Earth has there been so much uproar/violence/death/racial hatred/Islamophobia concerning a dozen satirical cartoons?

A statement from the SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) says “The extent of abuse shown in the photos suggests that the torture and abuse that occurred at Abu Gharaib in 2004 is much worse than is currently understood.” No kidding, glad they cleared that one up.

From Lenin:

How many prisoners were tortured, sexually humiliated and killed? How many died from having their chest crushed and ribs snapped like Manadel al-Jamadi? How many continue to be tortured and murdered in Bagram, Guantanamo and the other torture centres in America’s global gulag? And since when was it sufficient to say “we don’t want these pictures of our wrongdoing released in case it stirs anger in The Muslim World?” Should it not arouse anger? And much else besides?

Are these images representative of the US-led occupation? I wonder, too just how many prisoners have been tortured, sexually humiliated and subsquently killed. Oh wait, that’s our ‘human right’ as ‘westerners’ isn’t it? To take away the rights of others i.e. non-westerners?

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