What the fuck are we doing?

[grinninfoole]

Perhaps I haven't understood this clearly. Perhaps this story isn't accurate. Perhaps I expect too much. But, it looks to me like this story: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3674355.stm) is telling me that, in fact, our soldiers, my fellow americans, are torturing people in Iraq. In the exact same prison where Saddam's thugs used to torture prisoners. The stopping of which was our only moral justification for invading and taking over and such.

I think, when I get over being shocked, I shall be stunned. Then, I expect to be very angry, followed by sadness and maybe even some shame.

EDIT:
Well, it's true. Here's a link taken from mycrofth's LJ of pictures of tortured Iraqis taken by the perpetrators themselves. They're not as bad as some of the stuff that came out of Auschwitz, but it's still pretty strong stuff. Don't look if you can't handle it. http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/

As Jazzytwang might put it: "Another way to describe these photos is 'People's Exhibit A'".