SODOMY IS BAD NOW?

So the big news is that Seymour Hersh has given a speech about unreleased footage he has seen from Abu Ghraib prison that shows American soldiers sodomising Iraqi children as their mothers look on, begging to be killed:

"Debating about it, ummm ... Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."

"It's impossible to say to yourself how did we get there? Who are we? Who are these people that sent us there? When I did My Lai I was very troubled like anybody in his right mind would be about what happened. I ended up in something I wrote saying in the end I said that the people who did the killing were as much victims as the people they killed because of the scars they had, I can tell you some of the personal stories by some of the people who were in these units witnessed this. I can also tell you written complaints were made to the highest officers and so we're dealing with a enormous massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there and higher, and we have to get to it and we will. We will. You know there's enough out there, they can't (Applause). .... So it's going to be an interesting election year."

Nasty as fuck? Undoubtedly. Surprising? Not really.
 
I've looked at a bunch of sites commentating on this and the one question that keeps getting asked is 'how did we come to this?'
 
Well look around you.
 
The rape of inmates in prisons is so commonplace in the USA that it is nothing more than an easy threat given out in cop dramas and big budget action films. Just as prolific here in the UK. Sodomy seems to be the main hobby of priests on both sides of the Atlantic and the American military doesn't seem to think an atrocity is worth carrying out unless a pal is videoing it.
 
Don't get shocked by this stuff. There's worse to come and even then it probably won't be eyebrow raising.
 
Soldiers by definition are stupid. There's nothing shocking in them acting to type or those that sent them there hanging them out to dry.
 
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