Abu Ghraib Documentary

Last night I was watching TV, flipping through nothingness, when I come upon an HBO Documentary about the Abu Ghraib Prison and the absolutely horrible things that went on there.

I'm sure you know about this, it was all over every news outlet not too long ago. But how did this come about, the picutres alone of the detainees being handcuffed, most of the time naked, with panties over their heads etc, would make you think it was some rowdy MP guards, probably fresh from Boot Camp. Well as this documentary will tell you, that is totally wrong. Yes the Guards and Interrogated at Abu Ghraib may have perpetrated these acts, but it's a major Policy Fuck UP on with direct partaking by senior Defense Department Officials, including but not limited to Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Defense and Military Officials.

These acts were condoned by our government, on a regular basis to nearly all high level detainees at Abu Ghraib. These tactics in fighting a war, no matter what the purpose are denounced and illegal by order of the Geneva Convention.

Detainees were subject to physical torture, but mostly psychological torture, using sexual humiliation, degradation on all levels, keeping them awake for days with loud music and water being splashed on their bodies if they happen to fall asleep, etc. And unlike physical torture the scar from psychological torture can be and usually much worse and stays evident for a long time.

These tactics for torture in conjunction with interrogation was directly brought over from the once head of Guantanamo Bay Detention Centers for high level terror suspects, (which aren't allowed visits from even their lawyers) General Miller. He was known to be a strong supporter of torture, and obviously must either be a very idealistic or very sick man. He was brought over to Abu Ghraib from Gitmo to help out the the lack of information coming from the detainees.

To understand that most of the people being tortured were not associated with terrorism in Iraq, but the military felt it was nessisary to torture all to ensure they got every lick and cranny of information. When you give the authority to give one power to dominate another persons life,
that power becomes addicting, anyone who has taken Psych 1 in any college will know the results of a series of studies done in the late 60s and early 70s that concluded that corruption was brought on by the position, not by the man, it was only human nature to do such things, and this is why we have the Geneva Convention's rules of war.