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July 26, 2005

Summer blockbusters don't come any bigger!

Tickets aren't on sale yet, but coming soon -- it's the Abu Ghraib Film Festival of the Damned!

Pentagon Rejects Order to Release Abu Ghraib Abuse Images

Jul 25 - Facing a court-imposed deadline to release photographs and video documenting numerous instances of torture and abuse at the now infamous US-run Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq, lawyers for the Department of Defense Thursday sent the court a letter stating their intention to file papers explaining why it will not adhere to the judge’s orders, civil liberties groups announced Friday.

The legal brief explaining the reasoning behind the decision will be sealed, meaning most of the information will not be made public, the letter said.

People who have seen the videos, including members of Congress and reporter Seymour Hersh, have reported they include scenes involving far worse abuses than have so far reached the public, including rape and lewd acts committed against and in front of prisoners.

From Billmon:

The Cheneyites, of course, are reacting to this whiff of accountability like vampires confronted with the odor of garlic: hissing, snarling, baring fangs -- the full monty. They've even threatened to tell Shrub to veto the Pentagon spending bill rather than bear such insolence. (I can't wait to hear Little Boots explain why he was against paying the troops before he was for it.)

You can imagine how the Veep might have reacted when told that video clips of screaming, pre-pubescent Iraqi boys being anally raped -- while a bunch of leering degenerates in uniform stood around and watched -- might well reach the CBS Evening News before the critical amendments reached the Senate floor.

I doubt "go fuck yourself" even begins to cover it.

Maybe they can make it a Midnite Movie Double Feature -- remember those? Audition 2 (starring Donald Rumsfeld), followed by Rick Santorum: Pet Detective...

Posted by Jeff at July 26, 2005 06:25 AM