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There are still 1600 photos and videos including rape and murder not released by the U.S. Government.
That's not to mention the situation in Guantanamo, another Iraq prison and an Afghan prison.
We call for the relase of photos to the public. Right now Uncle $am is trying to spin out of the exposure by
saying that the problem was taking the pictures, not what was being done in the pictures themselves.
We can't let Uncle $am spin it that way. This is not something to spin, like which frat boy they are going to elect
as next president.
It is also turning out that 20,000 civilian contractors in Iraq are not covered by any tested laws, including some involved in the Abu Ghraib prison atrocities. A law on the books since 2000 is untried and may have too many loopholes--and the lawmakers in Washington DC left it that way on purpose.(1) We don't care if those 20,000 call themselves "workers": they are the enemy of the international proletariat just like oppressor nation workers in the Western imperialist countries generally. The people Uncle $am does give court-martials to and discredit will tend to be the ones who took the photos instead of the ones who carried out the actual torture. So far only one persyn has received any official punishment--a court-martial and sentence for one year. The people of Iraq said Specialist Jeremy Sivits should have been tried in Iraq by Iraqis instead.(2) "The charges against Sivits included taking a photograph of nude detainees, maltreating a detainee by escorting him to be 'positioned in a pile on the floor to be assaulted by other soldiers' and negligence for failing to protect detainees from 'abuse, cruelty and maltreatment.'"(3) It is true that the photographing is humiliating in Iraq and likely to cause suicide of the detainees by cultural norms there. However, we say the abused detainees should hold their chins up high and keep on struggling for Iraq's freedom, for they served as glorious combatants in the enemy's dungeons. Only idiots do not recognize that Comrade Gonzalo was a hero when Yankee lackeys put him in silly prison pajamas and a strange cage. Likewise, the Iraqi people detained in humiliating conditions are heroes and there is no photo by any Amerikkkan porno-afflicted louse that changes that. They can take all the humiliating photos they want: it only shows how desperate they are that they can't win their cause. In the united $tates, we have no choice but to say that taking the photographs should not be the issue, because the public has no other way of finding out exactly what is going on in Amerikkkan prisons. In fact, wherever there is an Amerikkkan prison guard, there should be a video camera running 24 hours a day, and if it goes off, that prison guard should be punished. We also agree with the Iraqi people and even some Amerikan columnists that some people should be receiving the death sentence--and not just the lower ranking people, but right up through the general in charge, Rumsfeld & Bush--all for war crimes. Lenience should be for those who turn in the others.
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