
There are very few people that are more outspoken about the evil of Islamic terrorism than I am. But there is no way that we will ever defeat Islamic terrorists by becoming just like them.
When I was growing up, I was taught that Americans never torture their prisoners. That was something that the Russians, the Nazis, the Chinese and the North Koreans did. We were the “good guys”, and so I was taught that we always treated our prisoners humanely.
Oh how things have changed.
The following is a summary of some of the details from the Senate torture report that just came out. As a nation, we should be deeply, deeply ashamed of what our government has been doing…
-We kept prisoners awake in “stress positions” for 180 hours
-We waterboarded prisoners until they started vomiting
-One prisoner died of hypothermia while chained to the floor
-At least five prisoners were subjected to a procedure known as “rectal feeding”
-Prisoners were routinely paraded around naked with their hands shackled above their heads
-One detainee was “chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper, and forced to go to the bathroom on himself”
-Prisoners were regularly subjected to mock executions during which they believed that they were about to be killed
-U.S. interrogators regularly threatened to physically harm, rape and sexually abuse the families of prisoners
And of course this report only focused on a small portion of the prisoner abuse that has been going on all over the world for more than a decade.
Once again, I want to warn you that the material in this next section is quite graphic.
But Americans need to be faced with the horrific truth. That is the only way that things will ever change.
The sadistic behavior of American personnel at the Abu Ghraib Confinement Facility in 2003 is almost too horrible for words. The following are highlights from an official U.S. Army report about the events that took place at that prison that you can find at nbcnews.com. Are these the kinds of things that “good guys” would do?…
*Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet
*Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing
*Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear
*Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped
*Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them
*Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture
*Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture
*A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee
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