"The American Military Tortured Me"

The Anchoress finds this account of U.S. military abuse that Amnesty International ought to be apprised of but quick.  Oh the horror:

We were driven onto the island in a bus late at night. They drove us all around the island before we could get off. I later learned that the reason for this tactic was to disorient us and to make escaping more difficult.

Immediately after the bus came to a stop military personnel boarded the bus and the verbal assaults which seemed to never end, commenced. We were kept awake for the rest of that night and through the next day. While we waited on line for shots and other medical procedures the verbal abuse continued. Some of us were so exhausted we fell asleep standing up.

They took the clothes off our backs and made us all wear the same clothing. Handing out the clothing was a military woman who screamed and cursed at us worse than any of the men. This was most humiliating.

Next they shaved our heads. Then they made us fill out forms in freezing cold room while they mocked us. To eat we got a sandwich which was half frozen. There were other food items included with the sandwich but the men in uniforms confiscated them.

One of the men with me was so afraid of the military men in charge that he didn’t ask to go to the bathroom and just urinated on himself. This brought the scorn of the military men and the entire group was punished for the act of the individual.

Often we were made to stand stiff and straight for what seemed like hours while the blazing sun beat down on our hairless heads. If we moved even to wipe the sweat from our eyes the military men became ferocious. Coughing and sneezing were also forbidden. We were forced to shave our beards daily. Some of us were even given the added humiliation of being required to shave twice per day.

Frequently we would be sent to a sand pit and forced to do “exercises” in it as the unclean sand got in our ears, mouths and eyes. Occasionally we would get a shower after the pit but showering only lead to more verbal abuse and degradation. Prior to showering we were stripped down completely naked in front of dozens of other men including the military men in charge of us. The showers were overcrowded and the men in charge continued to hurl insults.

The whole thing must be read so that this sort of thing can be halted.  And you know, I've just come to realize that many men in my own family have been victimized by the United States military.  This might just cause me to become a liberal.

Incredible.  Unbelievable.  Inconceivable.  Outlandish.

(Am I convincing?)

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[chuckels]

And I also vividly remember being kicked in the stomach, punched, piled on top of one another, burried in the sand alive, forced to run miles in the sand with heavy packs, forced to crawl under low bobed-wire with live ammunition being fired just inches over our heads, sleep deprived, my Christian religion mocked, my Gedon New Testament confiscated and ripped to peaces, my Lord and Savior, Jesus, being referred to in the ugliest of immoral terms, and never being referred to as anything resembling a human being!

God we loved it!

Semper-fi!

chuckels

[MarcV]

Inconceivable? You use that word but I do not think you know what it means. (What movie was that from?)

What is inconceivable is anyone who has been hurt and/or lost loved ones due to the recent actions of terrorists, yet not supporting the use of "intense" interrogation to help stop further attacks. This is a war - they brought it to us, and the US (with help) will put an end to or at least minimize it.