As days pass following the 60 Minutes expose of conditions at Abu Ghraib, the sickening details of the assault by Bush’s minions on the descendants of the creators of Mathematics, the inventors of the concept of zero, the builders of the Alhambra, serve to further disgust and appall.
What have we learned this week?
That Coalition military intelligence officials estimated that 70% to 90% of prisoners detained in Iraq since the war began last year “had been arrested by mistake.”
That the International Committee of the Red Cross started reported widespread abuses in Iraqi prisons to both the American and British governments as early as March 2003.
That Abu Ghraib is but one of a gulag of offshore prison/torture centers, including Guant