PHOTO: What on EARTH are they doing to this man?

[Bluebear]

This image, manipulated by the source with a black rectangle, is from video made available Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006 by the Special Broadcasting System in Australia is said by the broadcaster to shows a prisoner being abused. The Australian television network said the images of prisoners were made at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad in late 2003, and were among photographs the American Civil Liberties Union was trying to obtain from the U.S. government under a Freedom of Information request. SBS refused to give details on the source of the photographs, and the authenticity of the images could not be verified independently. (AP Photo/SBS/Dateline)

[tocqueville]

1. the same kind of stuff the Viets did to McCain... n/t

[UAWONE]

4. Abu Graib

Maybe he napalmed an American village.

[Poiuyt]

10. John McCain revealed military secrets in exchange for medical treatment

http://www.namvets.com/Reading/john_mccain_is_no_war_hero.htm

[Canuckistanian]

2. I think this is called the "sleeping bag"

They keep them immobilized for half a day in one of those things.

They'll probably tell you anything after an ordeal like that, maybe even turn in his own relative.

[VOX]

3. What the * administration has referred to as a "stress position."

Otherwise known as out-and-out torture.


On edit: typos

[TomInTib]

5. Try it. Try to last 5 minutes without just losing it completely.

Absolutely inhumane.

Dept of Defence tested waterboarding on Special Forces. Avg time before meltdown?- 19 seconds.

Bastards

[EFerrari]

6. They're democratizing him. God Bless America. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

7. Torturing him, eom.

[longship]

8. It's called torture

One of the many, many different tortures that the United States has been doing since ChimpCo came into office.

[pk_du]

9. We dont do torture - he's clearly getting help with a back

problem..

/sarc off

[countryjake]

11. Could the foam be to prevent bruising from showing up...

not sure why they would have cared, considering some of the other injuries we've seen pics of. But maybe whatever they do with him, between those two stretchers, is so severe that certain "evidence" of their treatment becomes obviously marked on the bodies of their victims, so they've tried to reduce any tell-tale marks by wrapping them in that foam, first.

Also, the authenticity of those photos has been verified by the Pentagon...heard it on the news just a little while ago.