November 17, 2005
SHIP 'EM THE GITMO CREW:
Iraq official defends 'torture' facility (CNN, 11/17/05)
Iraq's interior minister has defended a government facility that was found to be holding dozens of prisoners, including some showing signs of torture, saying it held "the most criminal terrorists.""Nobody was beheaded or killed," a defiant Bayan Jabr told a news conference Thursday, saying that only seven of 170 detainees showed marks of torture.
"Those detainees, those criminal killers inside the bunker were not Indians or Pakistanis or Iranians," he said, waving a stack of passports in the air. "Those are your Arab brothers that came here to kill your sons."
He said one detainee who had been reported as paralyzed was afflicted before his arrival at the facility and had been used "by one of the terrorists" to set off bombs.
"They gave the handicapped $1,000, and he was just a beggar," Jabr said.
The minister said a judge was in charge at the facility and was dealing with each case. Jabr pledged to hold anyone who has tortured a detainee accountable.
"I will punish them if (the investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations," he said.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 17, 2005 1:58 PM
Well, the Left has been arguing for decades (for ever?) that non-Europeans are incapable of self-government unless it's by home-grown thugs. If "little brown people" can't instantly behave like modern Swedes, then of course they'll behave like total barbarians. That's why it's important to have someone strong at the top (and someone who got their ideas while in Paris) to guide them. The idea that under American influence those "rag-heads" are reverting to form should please them.
Which is why they'll miss (or deliberately ignore) the part about this sort of thing no longer being acceptible behavior, and especially the part about self-correcting their lapses and failures, and trying to do better in the future.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 17, 2005 2:16 PMRaoul Ortega:
Yes, Iraqi self correction makes them very handsomely unlike the French or Swedes.
Posted by: Luciferous at November 17, 2005 2:37 PM