US has “Black” torture chamber in Iraq
President’s serial hypocrisy revealed again
News today in the New York Times:
[An] elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein’s former military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center. There, American soldiers made one of the former Iraqi government’s torture chambers into their own interrogation cell. They named it the Black Room.
George W. Bush has been naked for years on these atrocities, preaching serial hypocrisy on torture with extrordinary balls, since he claimed back in 2003 that Iraq under his fatherly love would be “free of assassins, and torturers, and secret police” and that — like he claimed three years ago this week — that Iraqis no longer would have to fear the tyrant Saddam’s “torture chambers and rape rooms”. Seems those same torture chambers have instead been built up and enhanced, continuing to be scenes of torture under Bush to this day, two years after the Abu Ghraib story broke.
Deep Blade has covered serial hypocrisy on torture and rape in Iraq for years now. See entries here, here, and here among other places. A couple of years ago, William Saletan published a timeline called Rape Rooms: A Chronology What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded — damning indictments.
These are war crimes, for which Bush as Commander-in-Chief is ultimately responsible.
March 20th, 2006 at 20:57
There has actually been a swath of commentary on the war here in Sweden. I discussed a few points with a neoliberal type on a local tv blog; yes, there are Swedish neoliberal types too. He argued that theft of oil resources was politically impossible and naive of us to even suggest. After a short histriy lesson, I tried to explain that hegemonic control of oil resources is not at all impossible, but who the hell in the US Administration cares about politics? He called me a conspiracy theorist. I responded with a question: is the historical record a tissue of conspiracy theories?
speak to you soon
by the way Eric, check this out: http://www.skype.com
it is a FREE IP telephony service which actually works very well. Check it out. My Skype name is Wallsyskype4006
March 20th, 2006 at 21:51
We are looking at installing Skype pretty soon. Keep you updated…
March 21st, 2006 at 19:39
Wish we could send Bush there…
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:56
Please, don’t send Bush to poor little Sweden, we have our own problems…
March 22nd, 2006 at 13:56
Wallsy, Kat would never want that! I think she’s talking about the “black” torture chamber. Check out Rhodian Attic.
March 22nd, 2006 at 20:45
Gosh! Apologies to Kat for that slight misunderstanding.