Disturbing but powerful diary at Kos. What goes on in our name. [View All]

[madfloridian]

Just a short snippet, it is powerful, disturbing. It is the top recommended diary at Kos right now, linking to the Black Commentator and an article by Paul Rockwell.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/10/92255/0807

A US Reservist tells his story (may be disturbing for sensitive readers)
by DuctapeFatwa

Sun Apr 10th, 2005 at 08:22:55 EST
"I don't really have a lot of commentary to add to this, those of you who pray, please pray for this man, and for his family, that they come to no harm."

Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1st , 2003 through April 1st, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq, he spent six months helping to run the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad......"

SNIP..."I first met Delgado in a classroom at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California, where he presented a slide show on the atrocities that he himself observed in Southern and Northern Iraq.
Delgado says he observed mutilation of the dead, trophy photos of dead Iraqis, mass roundups of innocent noncombatants, positioning of prisoners in the line of fire - all violations of the Geneva conventions. His own buddies - decent, Christian men, as he describes them - shot unarmed prisoners."