U.S. calls medics to Iraq police detention center

[deadparrot]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. Army discovered scores of detainees in poor health at a building run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry during a search for a missing 15-year-old boy, a U.S. general said Monday.

Brig. Gen. Karl Horst of the 3rd Infantry Division said the prisoners were found Sunday "in need of medical care -- so I brought medics in."

Iraqi police went further, telling CNN that many detainees in the Baghdad building "had obviously endured torture" and were "detained in poor health conditions."

The Iraqi Interior Ministry could not be reached for response.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/14/iraq.main/index.html?eref=yahoo

[NorCalDem]

1. For the last time! We DO NOT Torture!

:sarcasm:

[yellowcanine]

2. It all depends on what the meaning of torture is, and of course, if we

have someone us do the deed for us while we stand there giving pointers technically we are not torturing. One thing is for sure. A lot ot tortured logic has and is coming out of the * administration.

[Village Idiot]

3. Could this be the "back story"

Regarding the release of the new Abu Ghraib photos tomorrow?

It wasn't US! It was the Iraqis!!!

[MasonJar]

4. Are they going to release them tomorrow?

[mike_c]

5. remind me again what we were supposed to accomplish in Iraq...

...when we ousted the guy who tortured his own people...?

[superconnected]

6. I want to know why the US public doesn't demand to know what

they're getting out of the iraq war, for all those billions.

Seems the only thing bush promised was oil and no terrorism. I don't see us getting paid.

[rfkrfk]

10. the Sunni minority-population gov't has been abolished

to be replaced with, who knows.

the 20 percenters of the population, with no oil,
are no longer in command

[Barrett808]

7. We've failed to install a government that is less brutal than Saddam's

And that's a pretty low bar.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. kick

[Javaman]

9. nothing more than a "look we care" story...

granted there are soldiers over there that actually give a damn about the welfare of the average Iraqi, but usually they don't have the rank or power to affect any change.

So as the poor foot soldier is pulled ten different ways till Sunday via mission creep, the MSM cheerleaders jump all over this story to pump up morons* failures.

"look look!! we help, no torture!!" what colossal bullshit in an already colossally fucked up situation.