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Republican: Sodomy is not torture [VIDEO]
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At a debate on Wednesday Republican Chris Shays calmly stood up and said (video, right):
"Now I've seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture... It was outrageous, outrageous involvement of National Guard troops from (Maryland) who were involved in a sex ring and they took pictures of soldiers who were naked... And they did other things that were just outrageous. But it wasn't torture."The irony is that this was in response to the question of what American can do to restore our "moral image" in the world.
Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.The Red Cross not only indicated that detainee treatment appeared to be systemic, but also that what they witnessed was "tantamount to torture." And that's just what they were permitted to witness.
Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.
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