Whoa II

A few months ago, the Los Angeles Times became possibly the first American mainstream news source to "so-call" the Bush Administration's so-called "War On Terror".

Now, it has become possibly the first to dare to label the Administration's wide-ranging torture campaigns just that: "torture", rather that simply "abuse" or "mistreatment":

Marines in Iraq conducted mock executions of juvenile prisoners last year, burned and tortured other detainees with electrical shocks, and warned a Navy medic from Washington state they would kill him if he treated any injured Iraqis, according to military documents made public yesterday. [...]

The photographs of naked Iraqis being tortured by American troops at [Abu Ghraib] prison shocked the world in April.

Posted by Eddie Tews at December 15, 2004 03:58 PM