A former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things.
"They were torturing us as though it was theater for them," he said, as the prosecution wound up its case against Graner on assault, dereliction of duty and other charges that could bring him up to 17 1/2 years in prison.
An obviously ill-at ease Mutar added: "I was extremely emotional because (even) Saddam didn't do this to us."
It may seem odd to some people that someone would call this stuff worse than the brutality of Saddam Hussein.
However, forcing someone to violate his religion is one of the single most disgusting and barbaric things you can do to a person. Maybe THE worst. It always has been. Christians in the second century preferred undergoing brutal tortures to violating their religion. 2 Maccabees recounts a Jewish family subjected to torture for refusing to go against their religion. There is a long, long noble history of people preferring physical torture to violating a deeply held religious belief.
And the guy that said this wasn't a terrorist: he was charged with stealing a car. Just a common, garden-variety thief. Tortured and humiliated in the same prison that WE have now made more notorious than Saddam Hussein did.
The question is: when are the people responsible going to be tried? When is Gonzales going to be tried? When is Rumsfeld? When is Bush?
I know - never. Accountability is for privates.
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