Perhaps this is unfair, but I can’t help picturing the indignation on the face of the MSM author as this sentence is written:
The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein‘s crimes — but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards.
I’m shocked, shocked. What could possibly explain this strange lapse?
Iraq’s deputy justice minister, Busho Ibrahim, told The Associated Press that the American brutality was “nothing” compared with the violence and atrocities of Saddam and his Sunni-dominated Baath party.
“There is evidence of the crimes (Saddam committed) such as the hooks used to dangle prisoners, tools used to beat and torture prisoners and … the execution chambers in which 50 or 100 people were killed at once,” he said.
Hey, come on — it’s not like they were waterboarding people.
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the strawman didn’t even see it comin’!
He should have, he had 100 NYT stories to warn him.
When Dachau was liberated by American troops, some of the liberators were so shocked by what they had seen that they shot some of the German guards on the spot.
I guess this AP writer would feel that the Dachau museum should memorialize this action as an atrocity on a par with the regular operations of Dachau.
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