Wikileaks Confirm Western Culture of Torture & Lies Gen Taguba's Abu Ghraib Report & US Franchised Torture Revisited. Part I
K Gajendra Singh
uruknet

"It would be a good idea." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about his views on western culture.
"Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world." ~ Preamble, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims." ~ Robert Fisk
Hosting by WikiLeaks on its website some 391,832 US military messages documenting actions and reports on Iraq over the period 2004-2009,can be divided in five heads:
■ Reliance on private contractors aka mercenaries
■ the so-called "surge" of 30,000 additional US troops
■ the deaths of Iraqi civilians - killed mostly by other Iraqis, but also by the US
■ a litany of prisoner abuse by Iraqis - which US officials ignored - even more lurid than the infamous photographs of torture from Abu Ghraib prison in 2004
■ and the so called "aggressive" intervention of Iran's military providing "weapons, training and sanctuary" to Shia combatants.
Robert Fisk highlights the main points as follows: