Tuesday, February 17, 2009

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004409

Well at least now I can understand the need for Condi's need to promote rape and other such abuses to the detainees as information gathering tactics.
Because they had already been doing them on a large scale basis without reservation
for the inhuman acts that they are.
Our military has been psychologically restructured in their thinking for the last 8 years by the Bush administration as to what is acceptable to inflict upon another human being.
They say what goes around comes around and so it does, these very same soldiers will now pull duty in the US.
Do you really think it can't happen here?

Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,” he told the Associated Press. Neely describes the arrival of detainees in full sensory-deprivation garb, he details their sexual abuse by medical personnel, torture by other medical personnel, brutal beatings out of frustration, fear, and retribution, the first hunger strike and its causes, torturous shackling, positional torture, interference with religious practices and beliefs, verbal abuse, restriction of recreation, the behavior of mentally ill detainees, an isolation regime that was put in place for child-detainees, and his conversations with prisoners David Hicks and Rhuhel Ahmed. It makes for fascinating reading.

Neely’s comprehensive account runs to roughly 15,000