There are servicemen and women out there in Iraq as you read this. They have been put there for the most questionable of reasons: the Hubris of an incurious, inarticulate and essentially daddy-fixated, mommy-fearing man. They are doing the best that they can, with in some cases inadequate supplies, armor and other 'niceties' in 90+ degree dusty days only bound to get worse as summer approaches. So how are they being supported in their daily struggle to coexist with a population that's increasingly unsettled and now has more fuel like this to kindle the flames of their resistance?

Previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq describe in raw detail abuse that goes well beyond what has been made public, adding allegations of prisoners being ridden like animals, sexually fondled by female soldiers and forced to retrieve their food from toilets.

The fresh allegations of prison abuse are contained in statements taken from 13 detainees shortly after a soldier reported the incidents to military investigators in mid-January. The detainees said they were savagely beaten and repeatedly humiliated sexually by American soldiers working on the night shift at Tier 1A in Abu Ghraib during the holy month of Ramadan, according to copies of the statements obtained by The Washington Post.
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Kasim Mehaddi Hilas, detainee No. 151108, told investigators that when he first arrived at Abu Ghraib last year, he was forced to strip, put on a hood and wear rose-colored panties with flowers on them. "Most of the days I was wearing nothing else," he said in his statement.

Hilas also said he witnessed an Army translator having sex with a boy at the prison. He said the boy was between 15 and 18 years old. Someone hung sheets to block the view, but Hilas said he heard the boy's screams and climbed a door to get a better look. Hilas said he watched the assault and told investigators that it was documented by a female soldier taking pictures.

"The kid was hurting very bad," Hilas said.
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"Do you pray to Allah?" one asked. "I said yes. They said, '[Expletive] you. And [expletive] him.' One of them said, 'You are not getting out of here health[y], you are getting out of here handicapped. And he said to me, 'Are you married?' I said, 'Yes.' They said, 'If your wife saw you like this, she will be disappointed.' One of them said, 'But if I saw her now she would not be disappointed now because I would rape her.' "

He said the soldiers told him that if he cooperated with interrogators they would release him in time for Ramadan. He said he did, but still was not released. He said one soldier continued to abuse him by striking his broken leg and ordered him to curse Islam. "Because they started to hit my broken leg, I curse my religion," he said. "They ordered me to thank Jesus I'm alive."

The detainee said the soldiers handcuffed him to a bed.

"Do you believe in anything?" he said the soldier asked. "I said to him, 'I believe in Allah.' So he said, "But I believe in torture and I will torture you.' "

The uniformed culprits that need to be examined include the commanders of the MI detachments/units and "men" like Jesus Jerry Boykin, who have been shown to have had some role in this. Rumsfeld not only needs to go, he needs to go to trial for violating the Geneva Convention and it would not be such a stretch to drag Fearless Leader there with him. Think about it; if there were ever a conflict (the Unitarian-Texan cloud being forbid) with say, China or North Korea, they could rightly point to our abrogation of the Geneva Convention with respect to the treatment of any prisoners. How would you feel knowing that even with the Geneva Conventions in place it provided the barest security for American prisoners during WWII with the Japanese, the Korean War with the North Koreans and in Vietnam with the North Vietnamese; now we have said it's not consequential and lived out those words. Again, the 1600 Crew has screwed future generations, for their own hidden agenda, and it's going to hurt a lot of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines someday, but I hope that day never comes.