Soldier: Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse normal

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/abu_ghraib_insider

BERLIN - Interrogators at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with "the enemy," a soldier attached to military intelligence at the prison said Thursday.


But while military police are now facing charges — and with one already convicted — it was clear that U.S. Army military intelligence ran the prison, Sgt. Samuel Provance told the Associated Press.


A sign on the wall inside Abu Ghraib laid out interrogation rules, Provance said. It said that harsh methods — "such as sleep deprivation, altering the diet" — required command-level approval, but didn't spell out specifically who that meant.

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Who gave orders to the Army military police at Abu Ghraib is disputed among U.S. commanders, and Provance said from his position he couldn't tell.

[JoFerret]

1. Question: If this is normal

can we use it on BushCo when they are in custody?
I vote that we go for higher ground and re-establish humane norms for treatment of prisoners. Am i just a foolish weak-kneed, lily-livered, bleeding heart, civilized liberal?