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Conduct Unbecoming of the Commander-In-Chief

By Paul Kamen
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"These Photos Are Very Disturbing" reads the discretion warning in Dahr Jamail's recent dispatch reporting the new set of torture images to come out of Iraq. On February 16, 2006, the Australian public broadcaster SBS released the carnal photographs and videos of inhumane treatment inflicted upon Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04.

After viewing the nearly homo-erotic "pornographic" like photos and video clips, one could put an "E" rating - for morally evil - on this sequel to the 2004 prison abuse scandal. There are many versions as to how this troubling incident happened in an Iraqi chicken coop, guarded by US military foxes, but the origin is the most telling and indisputable.

Seymour M. Hersh wrote in "The Gray Zone," "The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie are not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved by ... Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld." [1] Called by US black ops in code names (i.e., "Copper Green" in Afghanistan), interrogation of prisoners in Iraq is based on research presented by the late cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai in his 1973 "The Arab Mind." [2]

The book, which defined the psychological make-up of Arab peoples, became the bible for how to break them down psychologically and morally. Patai claims Arabs only understand force, and an Arab's weakness is shame and humiliation. Thus, techniques for coerced sexually explicit humiliation were openly enforced in the prisons, and photographed to the delight of the US MP guards.

Abu Ghraib - The Tipping Point

By the summer of 2004, after the American corporate media was forced to show the truth of what occurred in Abu Ghraib, public support for President Bush's Operation Iraqi Freedom started showing dramatic disapproval, registering as high as sixty percent. John Mueller, Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and an expert on wartime public opinion, has argued that eroding support for Iraq matches patterns for wars in Korea and Vietnam.

"The most striking thing about the comparison among the three wars is how much more quickly support has eroded in the case of Iraq," he writes in Foreign Affairs. [3] By the start of last year with just 1,500 American troops dead, public opinion on Iraq dropped to depths only reached in the seven-year Vietnam War after the Tet Offensive, when some 20,000 Americans had been killed.

When US forces arrived in Iraq in March 2003, they found most of Iraq's institutional prisons in unsuitable condition to hold prisoners, since Saddam Hussein had shut the majority of them down, in his release of (primarily political) prisoners.

Consequently, US Military Police battalions set up "tent camps" in the hot, dusty desert to contain the growing number of "suspected" anti-coalition Iraqis. Of these, Camp Bucca, near Um-Qasr next to the Kuwait border, and Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, were the most notable. Ironically, the camps provided no better accommodations than the decaying institutional edifices could have, becoming fly infested cesspools of diseased hell on earth.


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