The 2004 ACLU Membership Conference in San Francisco featured a keynote address from New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. The Pulitzer Prize winning Hersh has been at the top of his game recently, writing more exclusive stories on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal than any of his competitors.
Seymour Hersh told the conference the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison. "The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher."
You can see the video of the speech or read a transcript here.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
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Yesterday I was listening (inadvertantly) to Sean Hannity. This issue came up and he made the comment of "Who's outraged on behalf of the American soldiers being killed?" That's why I hate the conservative commentators who've proliferated all over the airwaves. They simultaneously distort the issue while disregarding truth and make outrageous claims and comparisons. Look, our soldiers shouldn't be there in the first place, but instead of blaming Bush for that, he's trying to focus your attention on the badness of these Iraqis and outright ignoring events and facts like these. I bet he hasn't heard the screaming of children being raped and sodomized by our soldiers.
Republican platform:
Taxes on rich: bad!
Sodomizing of young Iraqis: good!
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