The Forces of Evil
05/04/2004 12:19
Gestapo-like behaviour by US Armed Forces
The shocking images of US military personnel standing around smiling
and giving the thumbs up sign as Iraqi prisoners were tortured comes
as no surprise. The surprise is that it took so long for the story to
break. Why? Because there was a massive cover-up attempt by the Queen
of Liars, Washington.
CBS News showed considerable courage in defying the US authorities who
had tried to stop the story breaking, showing horrific scenes more
befitting of a medieval torture chamber than a modern-day military
intelligence operation conducted by civilized people from a civilized
country.
This was not the case of a slap in the face for an obtuse prisoner,
this was not a fist in the stomach from a tired sergeant who had been
spat at. Iraqi men were stripped naked and beaten - one was beaten to
death, only the pictures are too horrific to show it - one was
photographed as a dog was set on him, some were forced to perform
disgusting deviant sexual practices, such as sucking each others'
penises, others were forced to suffer acts of sodomy by US military
personnel, while pictures were taken, some were forced to form a human
pyramid, naked, one was forced to stand on a box with electric wires
round his testicles and penis.
This was not one isolated incident, perpetrated by one warped or
irresponsible soldier, this was not one or two soldiers who went too
far, without supervision. This is not the case of two or three
soldiers who broke the rules of the Geneva Convention, nor four, or
five, or six, or seven, or eight, or nine. Nor ten, nor eleven, nor
twelve.
Nor thirteen, nor fourteen, nor fifteen. No less than seventeen
soldiers have been suspended from duty after these acts of torture
came to the public eye months after they took place at the end of
2003. This gives rise to the suspicion that these seventeen cases are
just the tip of the iceberg, after the same sort of actions have been
taken for many months, hidden from the press and the American public
by the evil, lying and murderous Bush regime.
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legs were blown off and his entire family slaughtered by US military
personnel who decided to drop a bomb on his house?
What to expect from a regime whose soldiers claim as their defense
that they were not given any guidance as to how to conduct an
investigation? So civilized people from the United States of America
behave like this when they are not told not to tie wires around
people's genitals, not to sodomize prisoners of war and not to beat
them to death?
What to expect from a regime which lies to its people, lies to the
world, disrespects fundamental international law and perpetrates a
shocking act of butchery which has slaughtered ten thousand civilians,
injured or mutilated thirty-five thousand others and left one thousand
children without arms or legs or eyes because they picked up the
brightly-coloured "sweets" that had been dropped near their homes,
only to find they were fragments of cluster bombs, which blasted away
their faces and their futures and their lives?
What to expect from a regime led by the only US President in history
to have a criminal record, who gets a black eye and a split lip from
eating a biscuit and whose grasp of basic English grammar is the
subject of ridicule in primary-school language classes around the
world? What to expect from a Pentagon led by the real-life version of
the Riddler, Donald Rumsfeld, who can hardly utter an intelligible
phrase in his language?
This regime is led by war criminals, by murderers, by assassins and by
those whose forces perpetrate acts of institutionalized torture. This
is not the Inquisition, this is not the Roman Colosseum, this is not a
Gestapo torture chamber, this is not Dachau, or Auschwitz. We are not
speaking about Saddam Hussein's torture chambers (were the US
personnel captured by the Iraqis tortured? Was Jessica Lynch
tortured?), we are not speaking about Hitler or Himmler or Goebels.
We are speaking about the evil regime led by George W. Bush, Donald
Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Richard Cheney, better
known as *****. It comes as no surprise that the United States of
America is the most hated nation on the planet at this moment in time.
Blame Bush for that.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
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