Because if I didn’t, I’d never put up this post. Via the increasingly essential Angry Black Woman, here’s a transcript of a video that YouTube has since pulled but that Evan caught just in time to watch at Alternet, and he notes that the DoD is taking it “seriously.” I know it means there will be another Blogger Ethics Panel because I’m putting this up, but I don’t forget Sy Hersh’s words, or that for the most part, we have yet to see the majority of the video information that he says Senators and other government officials have had under wraps for some time now:
**** indicates an edit in the tape.Get this on tape man. Say it again. Say again what happened.
Say what?
You know, like what was going on? What was it like being a guard there?
A guard at Abu Ghraib?
Yeah. That place, man, it’s fuckin’ world famous now.
I don’t know what to say. Nothin’ special. It’s better than being a fucking bullet sponge.
Know any of those guys who got busted, you know, for torturing those inmates?
They got fucked, man. You know, just cuz someone let the pictures get out.
I don’t get that.
Yeah, why’d they….
No one expected…
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I mean, compared to what we were doing every day? Teasing a couple of hajjis? Give me a fucking break. You know, what’s the big deal about making a haji walk around like a dog and bark?
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….expected anyone to get all upset…
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What else would you guys do?
What would we do?
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Or we would take plastic and wrap it around their heads until they started choking….
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CIA showed us a lot of shit….
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…..crank generator, where we’d hook it up to their nipples or their nuts, fucking crank it and shock the shit out of them.
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What was the most fun things?
The most fun thing, umm….definitely the women.
Yeah? They had chick insurgents, man?
No, they didn’t have chick insurgents.
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Something goes down, they just grab everyone around, you know, fuck em. I mean, you gonna have 35 trials? No, you know. People are like, “Oh they’re innocent.” You know what, I don’t give a fuck. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all guilty. You know what? They should have kicked Saddam out themselves. Instead, we’re there doing the fucking job. We’re losing guys…..
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Were those people in the World Trade Center guilty? No. Fuck
them. They fucked us, so now we’re fucking them. Fuck them, dude, anyone with a fucking rag on their head is fair game.
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….girl, she was probably like 15 years old. Yeah, she was hot dude. The body on that girl, yeah, really tight. You know, hadn’t been touched yet. She was fucking prime. So….
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One of the guys started pimping her out for 50 bucks a shot. I think at the end of the day, you know, he’d made like 500 bucks before she hung herself.
Really?
Yeah.
She hung herself? How’s come she hung herself?
I don’t know. She wasn’t happy.
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In their culture, it’s really shunned upon if you get raped. I guess she would have been stoned to death anyways by her people, you know. It’s fucked up.
She was fucked anyway, I guess. In more ways than one.
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You didn’t get shit from the CO, did you?
Uh-uh, not until those fucking pictures came out. After then the biggest rule was no fucking cameras.
Yeah, you hear that?
Souds authentic enough to me.
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It would be unethical NOT to post this!
It is thoroughly appalling, and deserves widespread exposure and condemnation.
This one especially stood out to me: “In their culture, it’s really shunned upon if you get raped.” Unlike here in the good old US of A, where we honor and respect rape victims?
Makes me want to scream!
here's the logic of this post
if it’s real, it’s a horror. a horror more people need to become aware of, and it’s a evil and a shame that our senators have had video proof of what is discussed by these men, and kept a lid on it so they don’t look bad and bush can continue to speak of his war as a moral good.
if it’s fake, it’s a lesser horror. listening to these men laugh and joke about rape and abuse, the racism- it tells you all you need to know about those who would look upon the events of the war and still support it.
i’m leaning towards ’too real to be true,’ but on the other hand, sometimes the war supporters really are that shocking, arrogant, and evil.
I don't give a good God-damn about whether they were lying ...
they’re assholes of the first water and ought to be hanged.
Period.
tip of the iceberg
There are as many private contractors in Iraq as American military. We’ve posted on it at length here and I sure have at my place, but to beat a horrifically undead horse, people like DynCorp have a track record of involvement in human trafficking.
Halliburton has gotten into the show for slave labor there. It’s a small step into slavery for prostitution as well.
It’s important to realize these corporations have become an unaccountable and unregulatable branch of the American government.
If the Democrats do manage to pull the rug out from under these folks and bring our soldiers home, you can count on Cheney’s minions bringing every one of the 100,000+ mercenaries home they can. They will be here, at minimum, to do the bidding of their Party in their attempt to knock the Democrats off the scene. Politically, and in small airplanes, if our leaders are foolish enough to get in them.
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky