[IWE] 'Ghosts of Abu Ghraib' on HBO tonight
Ashton Brown
iwe@warhead.org.uk
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:35:43 -0800
.. or maybe a friend will record it for you.
> Feb. 22, 2007 | The photos
> <http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/16/abu_ghraib/> from Abu
> Ghraib <http://dir.salon.com/topics/abu_ghraib/> hardened the world's
> hearts against America. The casual sadism of those pictures, the men
> and women smiling, pointing, giving the thumbs up while naked
> prisoners cringed beside them, seemed to tell the global community all
> it needed to know about what was happening behind closed doors in
> Iraq. <http://dir.salon.com/topics/iraq/> The administration's
> official tale was that the abuse <http://dir.salon.com/topics/abuse/>
> depicted in those pictures was the result of nine "bad apples" on the
> night shift, unstable soldiers who perpetuated an "Animal House"
> atmosphere that was in no way endorsed by their superior officers.
>
> But with fresh reports
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/world/middleeast/18bucca.html?_r=1&em&ex=1171947600&en=84645c3d8ffb98af&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin>
> of abuse by U.S. soldiers from Iraqi detainees in last Sunday's New
> York Times, the story of Abu Ghraib may be more open to debate than
> ever. Rory Kennedy, <http://dir.salon.com/topics/rory_kennedy/> a
> documentary <http://dir.salon.com/topics/documentaries/> filmmaker and
> the daughter of Robert Kennedy,
> <http://dir.salon.com/topics/bobby_kennedy/> set out to demonstrate
> how the atrocities at Abu Ghraib were a direct result of unprecedented
> changes in U.S. policy regarding what constitutes torture and how
> prisoners are allowed to be treated. In HBO's
> <http://dir.salon.com/topics/hbo/> "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" (airs at
> 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22), which first premiered at Sundance
> <http://dir.salon.com/topics/sundance/> in January, Kennedy pieces
> together a narrative that is very different from either the common
> wisdom about Abu Ghraib or the Pentagon's official story.
>
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2007/02/22/abu_ghraib/index.html?source=newsletter
...dissect and document each little atrocity of the cabal - and pretty
soon you have enough to make an Atrocity. For the impeachment process
to move into high gear. Or something.