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Flashback: Torture photos depict 'rape and murder,' Sen. Graham said in 2004

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In spite of the White House and Pentagon's synchronized rebuttal to an explosive story by the Daily Telegraph alleging the White House is suppressing images of prisoners' sexual abuse, almost nothing about the paper's Thursday morning report was new, least of all the charges of rape.

"The American public needs to understand, we're talking about rape and murder here," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling reporters in 2004 why the Abu Ghraib photos should not be released as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld faced calls for his resignation. "We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."

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A military report, filed by General Taguba in 2004, described a prisoner being sodomized by a chemical light.

Congressional leaders had a chance to screen over 1,600 of the still-classified images in May of that year. Some showed Iraqi women forced to reveal their breasts, according to The Los Angeles Times.

"Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts," reported the Telegraph.

If they hide this we also are being raped. This cannot stand. If even Rumsfeld acknowledged this there can be little doubt. Drag them all from the top down before the law. This is not borderline abuse. I'm angry. (Be sure to check out the links. Very Damning. The past won't be buried.)

    Reply#1 - Thu May 28, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
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