The stench of Abu Ghraib is on the Bush White House, the stench of the Bush White House is on Abu Ghraib...Seymour Hersh is probably America's most respected investigative journalist. The country already owed him a debt of gratitude for the work he did during the Vietnam war. Now it is Hersh, writing for The New Yorker, who broke the Abu Ghraib story...Remember when the LNS quoted Hersh urging US Senators, live on SeeBS Fork The Nation, to encourage the military to come forward, because there was so much yet to be made public that was much worse than what already had been made public? Well, the LNS has been holding back on the story included here until we were confident it was accurate. We are now confident it is accurate, and we do not have the resources of SeeNotNews, SeeBS, NotBeSeen or AnythingButSee. Well, I guess we do have access to one resource that the major network news organizations apparently do not have access to, i.e. COURAGE..What has happened to this country? How can the blow-dried anchormen and propapunditgandists of the "US mainstream news media" sleep at night? It was ghastly enough last week, when it became painfully obvious that they were beginning to *downplay* and *discount* the deaths of US soldiers (almost two dozen last week), BUT now we must break it to you that they *already know* what you are about to read and they have not told you...
Daily Kos: Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher."
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Kids Sodomized At Abu Ghraib
Daily Kos
July 15, 2004
From Daily Kos:
Kids sodomized at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has the videos - Hersh
Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher."
This is a summary of Hersh speaking at the ACLU 2004 America At A Crossroads conference according to EdCone.com (via Oliver Willis). I verified by watching the video myself (it starts at 1:07, the "worse stuff" part starts at 1:30).
There's more bad stuff in here, read Ed Cone's summary.
I'll try transcribing some of the more important bits.
[my transcription from 1:31 - 1:32]
Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok. Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib which is 30 miles from Baghdad [...]
The women were passing messages saying "Please come and kill me, because of what's happened". Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.
It's impossible to say to yourself how do we get there? who are we? Who are these people that sent us there?
Chilling.