U.S. soldier chronicles abuse, hard times in Iraq

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-08-17T182231Z_01_SCH766146_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-IRAQ-MEMOIR-DC.XML

U.S. soldier chronicles abuse, hard times in Iraq

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops was widespread and not limited to the high-profile cases at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a former soldier who participated in an interrogation that she said "crossed a line."

Kayla Williams, 28, a former sergeant with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division in Iraq and the author of a new book, said soldiers interrogating a naked Iraqi asked her to humiliate him. She also saw fellow soldiers throwing lit cigarettes at him and hitting him in the face.

"It's one thing to make fun of someone and attempt to humiliate him. With words. That's one thing. But flicking lit cigarettes at somebody -- like burning him -- that's illegal," Williams writes in "Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army," which hits U.S. bookstores September 5.

While stationed at the 2nd Brigade's Brigade Support Area in Mosul in late 2003, Arabic linguist Williams was asked to mock an Iraqi man's sexual prowess and ridicule the size of his genitals.

[SpiralHawk]

1. The BushCo policy is torture

The fish rots from the head down. Impeach Bush and stop the torture of children, women, and men in the name of the American people.

Restore honor to the White House.

[sabra]

2. a very telling section

"Williams wrote that she chose not to participate in subsequent interrogations but that other soldiers later told her that "the old rules no longer applied because this was a different world. This was a new kind of war."

[Qanisqineq]

3. that part is chilling

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[Hissyspit]

4. kick

[lebkuchen]

5. I hope Newsweek reviews this book

though I'm not "making book" on it.

[bribri16]

6. Funny how most men without balls always focus their attention there on

someone else.

[rodeodance]

7. this sure contradicts BushCo's--it is just a few bad apples.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. not really - doesn't the saying finish with "ruins the bushel"??

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I know it works fer the 'taters under my sink!

and sumone furgot to mention

the first rotting apples were/are in the WH

[librechik]

9. kick!

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