Apparently there are pictures of U.S. troops raping and torturing 14
year old Iraqi girls. Those are children! During the Congressional
hearings, Rumsfed warned that there will be more pictures coming out,
and he said they will be awful. He wouldn't warn Congress of these
pictures if they were not real pictures.

The only reason why Congress had public hearings on the Abu Ghraib
torture scandal, is because there were pictures. You can count on the
Republicans to redouble their efforts to hide future evidence of what
Republicans are all about.

Tortures are nothing new. Tortures have been the central tool of
Republican foreign policy, for at least the last half century. And
Tortures ALWAYS increase when Republicans come to power. But trying to
argue with Republicans that torture is wrong, is like trying to argue
with Nazis that genocide is wrong. Nothing gets thru to them. But
strangely enough, explain this to me, Republicans tend to believe in
God. But Nazis believed in God too.

Abel
http://www.amnesty.org
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From: http://www.norwaypost.no/content.asp?folder_id=1&cluster_id=25740

July 6, 2004

Norway reacts to alleged American child abuse in Iraq

The Norwegian Government and individual politicians have reacted
strongly to the alleged abuse of children in Iraqi prisons by American
soldiers, as reported in a German TV documentary on Monday evening.

The leader of the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee, Thorbjoern
Jagland (Labour), calls for those politically responsible in the US to
step down.

-It is completely atrocious and contravening international law, if this
is true, and it is difficult to understand if this should not have the
consequenses that someone in the US take direct political responsibility
and step down, Jagland says.

He says that US cerdibility within the international community has been
weakened by the reveleations.

The Norwegian Government said earlier on Tuesday that they will bring up
the matter with the US authorities at the earliest covenience.

-Such abuse is unacceptable. It is in violation of International Law. We
will take the matter up in a very sharp and direct way, said
Undersecretary of State at the Prime Minister's Office, Odd J.Saeter, to
public broadcaster NRK.

The Socialist Left Party (SV) has also reacted, and states that the
alleged child abuse must have repercussions for the US authorities, but
also for the relationship between the US and Norway.

-If this turns out to be true, it must have consequenses for our
relationship to a close ally in military operations. It will be very
difficult to participate with an ally who is willing to carry out such a
breach of International Law, says SV's Secretary General, Baard Vegar
Solhjell.

Leader of the Agrarian Party, Aaslaug Haga, says the Government should
react vis-a-vis the US immediately, and at the same time she proposes a
discussion among NATO member countries to avoid that similar things
should happen in Afghanistan.