The Road to Abu Ghraib
By Phillip Carter
The Washington Monthly
November 2004 Edition
The biggest scandal of the Bush administration began at the top.
A generation from now, historians may look back to April 28, 2004, as
the day the United States lost the war in Iraq. On that date, "CBS News"
broadcast the first ugly photographs of abuses by American soldiers at
Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. There were images of a man standing hooded on a
box with wires attached to his hands; of guards leering as they forced naked
men to simulate sexual acts; of a man led around on a leash by a female
soldier; of a dead Iraqi detainee, packed in ice; and more. The pictures had
been taken the previous fall by U.S. Army military police soldiers assigned
to the prison, but had made it into the hands of Army criminal investigators
only months later, when a soldier named Joseph Darby anonymously passed them
a CD-ROM full of prison photos. The images aroused worldwide indignation,
and illustrated in graphic detail both the lengths to which the United
States would go to get intelligence, and the extent to which those efforts
had been corrupted by the exigencies of the difficult war in Iraq.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_102704B.shtml
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They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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www.iraqbodycount.net
www.costofwar.com
http://icasualties.org/oif/
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U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Iraq had essentially destroyed its illicit weapons
capability within months after the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991, and its
capacity to produce such weapons had eroded even further by the time of the
American invasion in 2003, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a
report made public today.
http://tinyurl.com/3p3q9
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/international/middleeast/0
6CND-INTE.html?hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=)
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