"rode her like a donkey"

[charlie]

LONDON - U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday.

The envoy, legislator Ann Clwyd, said she had investigated the claims of the woman in her 70s and believed they were true.

During five visits to Iraq in the last 18 months, Clwyd said, she stopped at British and U.S. jails, including Abu Ghraib, and questioned everyone she could about the woman's claims. But she did not say whether the people questioned included U.S. forces or commanders.

Asked for details, Clwyd said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press that she "didn't want to harp on the case because as far as I'm concerned it's been resolved."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&u=/ap/20040505/ap_on_re_eu/britain_iraq_us_prisoner_abuse&printer=1

Those few bad apples are starting to look like a barrelful.

[riverwalker]

1. a whole orchard of bad apples n/t

[rumguy]

2. but, but...I thought we were as pure as the driven snow

that we Americans are so pure of heart that it is our duty to bring democracy to the entire world with our guns...

we would never abuse old ladies? would we?

[KeepItReal]

3. Y'all this makes me sick

Fudge Bush & Co. for sending these Guardsmen and Reservists (and fulltime regular military) to Iraq for his little "I'm a War President" stunt.

None of this sh*t needed to happen. But we here all know that.

Now we're churning out American war criminals and newly-minted anti-American "terrorists" who used to just be plain old Iraqis staying outta Saddams way.

Thanks Mr. pResident..."Mission Accomplished."

[kentuck]

4. Yes, the volunteer Army is far superior..

????

[KeepItReal]

6. Don't know all the facts....

but I would find it doubly shocking if a regular Army/Marine unit committed these atrocious acts.

If Reservists and Guardsmen are not the culprits, then the general morale and the chain of command in the Iraq theater is really f-cked up. Makes you wonder why Gen. Tommy Franks bailed out instead of seeing this thing through...maybe he saw this coming.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Yes and we will give these brutal motherfuckers a hero's welcome

when they come home and as soon as they get comfortable, we will be left with epidemic crimes caused by brutal animals given a hero's welcome.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. but will they be able to stop this once they get home? You know,

after unleashing the beast and all. It's sickening and disheartening. :(

[Angelus]

8. This just makes me sick...

I would never be able to call soldiers who do stuff like this heroes. This is absolutely horrible. :grr: :puke:

[MrSlayer]

9. What honor is there in humiliating a 70 year old woman like this?

Apparently many of our soldiers do not behave like the Knights they are made out to be, instead they are more in line with brigands and mercenaries. Heartless, cruel, ignoble and devoid of honor.

[Must_B_Free]

10. Am I the only one who has trouble believing

that a 70 year old woman could be ridden like a donkey?

Seems implausible. I don't doubt that they would do it, but rather that she wasn't crushed.

[DemoTex]

11. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Hosea 8/7

We are fucked. The bible tells me so.

[Nlighten1]

12. My god...

what the hell is going on over there?

[Christ was Socialist]

13. Revenge is gonna be so sweet<nt>

[rumguy]

14. what does that mean?

[workforpower]

15. Psssst...

not a full deck.

[bigbillhaywood]

17. Careful, brother. Some Feds don't take comments like that lightly

[WFF]

16. Were flowers strewn in front of her as she was being ridden?

The Iraqis love us so much I'm sure they did.