Where is the Torture at Abu Ghraib?

You know, for many weeks now I have looked at pictures and even video footage coming out of Iraq — almost all of the material constantly trailed across American newscasts day after day and on websites like those run by the Washington Post.

I have to now ask: Where is the torture at Abu Ghraib?

So far I have seen naked Iraqi males. Yes, uncomfortable for them, perhaps disorienting or embarrassing. Too bad. That’s not torture. I’ve had jobs where I’ve had to be on my feet for more than twelve hours at a time in bad shoes and I can guarantee you, I’ve suffered more pain than I see in most of these photographs just from that experience alone.

What I see are distortions. Massive distortions. And the distortions have been going on by the Liberal media machine for weeks.

So, I am going to put it to visitors to this site: if you find actual evidence of torture from Abu Ghraib — video or photographic proof — then send me a link or the actual media. I must see this if I am to believe the reports have not been anything more than intentional distortions.

Why am I so adamant about this? Because I have seen the Nick Berg beheading video. I have seen some of the video evidence from Saddam Hussein’s tortures — fingers and hands being chopped off while soldiers are chanting “Happy Birthday, Saddam.” And I have seen the pictures of Paul Johnson’s fate.

A report I read last week was one of the few that actually made much sense about Abu Ghraib — it was about Iraqis that viewed the incident “as a joke to us” because they had suffered torture under Saddam — and the incidents in Abu Ghraib were nothing compared to these actual obscenities. And no, I’m not even trying to find any excuse for what I’ve seen from Abu Ghraib by saying it’s a lesser evil without acknowledging it is an evil — but what I am doing is saying that I have seen no evidence of torture. Period.

I’ve heard claims. Oh, there are many claims from the press in recent years. And I’ll tell you this — many of them turn out to be more distortion and in some cases outright lies. I no longer trust the words of even the American media without proof; not even from the New York Times, which has been found wanting in truthful reporting several times in recent months.

So, where is the torture? Why are the real atrocities that continue to happen to American military and civilian contractors every month not given even a fraction of the attention that Abu Ghraib has received?

Dogs frightening prisoners — oh my. I’m so sorry. You know what: I’ve been bitten by German Shepherds twice in my life. One took a large chunk out of my hip and another time a bite barely missed taking out one of my eyes. Forgive me if the pictures of a dog growling at a prisoner — a prisoner that most likely is one of the rapists I have heard constituted a large portion of that prison population — a dog growling is hardly anything that constitutes torture. And if this prisoner is the man that raped an entire family and then passed out drunk in his loft until a little girl convinced some Marines to come to the rescue and arrest him? Well, then I would be wondering why they didn’t feed that bastard to the dog!

Americans, we are losing sight of actual right and wrong more and more in this country and we do so at great peril. We are giving the inhumane humane rights — we are giving rights to aliens and we are losing vital time every minute that we do so.

All it will take is one of these lax attitudes to allow the evil to slip through and strike us and reopen the wound that is 9-11. I hope to God I am wrong, but I predicted we’d be back in Iraq in 10 years back in 1991 — so don’t bet that I’ll be wrong. It wouldn’t be a good one.