New Human Rights Report: Soldiers’ Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq

[kpete]

A new Human Rights Watch report out today collects accounts from soldiers in Iraq who participated in and witnessed detainee abuse.

You won't be surprised by the findings, which Human Rights Watch says show that the abuse was not merely conducted by a few aberrants but was sanctioned up the chain of commnd. I was struck, however, by the existence of written documentation authorizing the abuse:

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/us0706/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009146.php

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And what is being done about it?

Any courts martial in the works? Any word from the Executive Branch? How about a Congressional investigation? Or will these soldiers just be let go, coming home with a warped view of how to behave that may well cripple them for the rest of their lives?