Here is the answer for every Republican and military personal to the question of Abu Grab:
The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors.These quotes should be used in every Republican's campaign commercial in the fall. "If our military is so brutal, why would terrorists prefer them over their own people?"
[...]Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards.
"The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better," said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism.
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Haleem Aleulami, who was released from the jail last week, three weeks after being arrested in Ramadi for carrying a pistol in his car, said the Americans had treated him better when they ran the jail. He claimed that visits from the International Red Cross staff had dried up and accused local human rights workers of being members of Shia groups who turned a blind eye to problems in the jail.
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And Khalid Alaani, who was also picked up in Ramadi suspected of involvement in Sunni terrorism, said: "We preferred the Americans. We asked to move with them to Baghdad airport because we knew the treatment would be changed because we know what the Iraqis are. When the Americans left everything changed."
And now, everyone can shut the heck up about Abu Ghraib, I'm not going to listen and I will just say, "Ha! The terrorists prefer our military to guard them, what does that tell you?"
Updated to add: To every military personal reading this post, I hope that you know that we know that you have a tough job and that you have to contend with the fall out from the actions of some who don't treat their job with the respect and responsibility it deserves and that you have to live with the bad press they generate. Just know that as a Christian, I feel your pain :-) Been there, done it and wish they had a t-shirt about it.
Also, I can you guys can tell I have a lot of bitterness in my heart over this issue :-) I will pray about it.
(Link via Drudge Report)
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