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Friday, May 07, 2004
We don't need no stinking Geneva Convention

I'm sure you've all seen these photos coming out of that Iraqi prison. And even though they're pretty disgusting, I'm more embarrassed than outraged, to be honest. I mean, how did that one woman grinning and holding thumbs up manage to be in every picture? She's gonna be walking graveyard security at some shit hole mall in Kentucky faster than you can say "dishonorable discharge."

The claims of "we were just following orders" have begun to trickle in, and I think we've seen enough from the Nazis to Watergate to know that "following orders" just doesn't fly. Although the Department of Defense is clearly being run by cowards with low morals, I find it pretty hard to believe that anyone got orders to make human pyramids or stick panties over prisoner's heads. Besides, when you're in the photo with naked Iraqis, it sort of makes it tough to swallow.

They ordered you to be in the photos with the naked Iraqi pyramid?"

"Well, no. But I thought it would make a nice Christmas card."

Anyway, if these were Egyptians, I could sort of see the whole pyramid thing. But I digress.

Now like I said before, I'm not sure if all of these guys were tortured, but they sure as hell were humiliated. The thing of it is, it makes all of these fundamentalist charges of America being decadent seem pretty accurate. I can only imagine what it is like to actually be there, and I'm sure it's tension-filled and frustrating. I'm sure I might feel the need to crack some skulls on occasion. I'm also reasonably confident that it never would have occurred to me to line the prisoners up in a daisy chain. Even if I wanted to humiliate them, I just don't really think I'd want it enough to actually stand there slapping hairy Iraqi asses while some asshat makes a Kodak moment out of it.

And of course, any mistreatment of Americans is greeted with howls of outrage, as it should be. But the problem we run into, yet again, is that we have lost any moral high ground that we may have had going in to this fiasco. We cannot pontificate about how civilized we are, and how we are just there to help. It was a fairly obvious lie at the outset, and I just don't see how we are going to recover from this. Iraqis will now be fighting to the death rather than be taken prisoner, and American casualties will escalate yet again.

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