Abuse by U.S. Soliders: "Demanded" by Administration

As Army Pfc. Lynndie England was sentenced for prisoner abuse in the Abu Grab scandle today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report of Iraq prisoners abuse at a military base called Mercury near Falluja.

(NEWSFLASH EVERYONE: PRISONER ABUSE IS STILL GOING ON! )

The Bush administration continues to deny that it's policies towards prisoners create such abuse as in the England case. This war of lies, "war on terror"' has given our government free reign on torture. The privates aren't the ones that should be headed to jail. Rather, the men "behind the curtain" are guilty of human rights violations and have completely ignored the rules of the Geneva Conventions. Therefore, The Babes hold the following in contempt and give our verdict on the charge of abuse towards Iraqi and Guantanamo prisoners:


GUILTY: DONALD RUMFIELD~Secretary of Defense
GUILTY: GEORGE TENET~Former CIA Director
GUILTY: GEOFFREY MILLER~Major General, former commander of Guantanamo Bay
GUILTY: RICARDO SANCHEZ~Lieutenant General, formerly the top U.S. commander in Iraq
GUILTY: ALBERTO GONZALAS~Attorney General, lover of The Patriot Act
GUILTY: G.W. BUSH~President of The United States
GUILTY: DICK CHENEY~Vice President of The United States


Please read the following HRW REPORT on abuse at Mercury Base:

According to the soldiers' accounts, U.S. personnel abused detainees as part of the military interrogation process or merely to “relieve stress.” In numerous cases, they said that abuse was specifically ordered by Military Intelligence personnel before interrogations, and that superior officers within and outside of Military Intelligence knew about the widespread abuse. The accounts show that abuses resulted from civilian and military failures of leadership and confusion about interrogation standards and the application of the Geneva Conventions.

They contradict claims by the Bush administration that detainee abuses by U.S. forces abroad have been infrequent, exceptional and unrelated to policy. “The administration demanded that soldiers extract information from detainees without telling them what was allowed and what was forbidden,” said Tom Malinowski, Washington Director of Human Rights Watch. “Yet when abuses inevitably followed, the leadership blamed the soldiers in the field instead of taking responsibility.”

"As long as no PUCs [prisoners under control] came up dead, it happened," he said. "We kept it to broken arms and legs." ~Sergeant 82nd Airborne

Read the following links for more information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4278734.stm
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/25/usint11776.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050926/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/prisoner_abuse_england