Friday, May 21, 2004

WaPost's got New Pictures

[WaPost] The Washington Post has new pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib, plus a video. It's disturbing to see prisoners apparently being threatened with dogs, men covered naked in mud (or worse -- hard to tell what that brown substance is) and forced to walk in a straight line hooded and foot-cuffed, the simple dragging around of bodies, the apparent punching of a hodded prisoner.

With Seymor Hersh saying this stuff occurred by people in a chain of command going from prisoners to MPs to contracters to Rumsefeld, it's well past time the Pentagon stopped simply denying that they were involved and come clean with a full description of what the organizational structure was.

We can be civilized about this and give Rummy the benefit of the doubt, but now it's past clear the Pentagon is stonewalling -- that can only going on for a very short while longer before there are calls for his head on a stick. You don't get a pass for presiding over the department responsible for screwing up the war on terror.

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