MICHAEL TOTTEN, reporting from Iraq, takes you on a chilling tour of one of the holding sites for Abu Ghraib during the Saddam regime. His report, The Head of the Snake, ends with these words:
The hardest thing to see was the cell used to hold children before they were murdered. My translator Alan read some of the messages carved into the wall.No sense in saying the obvious. The pictures and words that come before say it all. Posted by Vanderleun at March 4, 2006 6:32 PM"I was ten years old. But they changed my age to 18 for execution."
"Dear Mom and Dad. I am going to be executed by the Baath. I will not see you again."
10,725 people were killed in this one building alone. All died during torture. Formal execution actually took place in Abu Ghraib.
Some 98 detainees have died of something other than "natural causes" at the hands of Bush's torturers - without trial, and certainly not execution. Up to 90 percent, according to the Pentagon, of the men and boys held in Guantanamo are not terrorists, and should not be held -- but there isn't any way to release them now that we've abused them for three years, because they would be very embarrassing, and might provoke others to threaten us. I think you can climb down from that moral high ground, now -- no, don't bother. You're in a pit.
Posted by: mesquite at March 7, 2006 9:24 AMLet's see. Even granting the number is accurate, is the difference between 10,000 and 98 so difficult for you to grasp. I think we covered this somewhere in Grades 1 to 3.
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