Omar at Iraq The Model posts an interesting conversation with an Iraqi doctor about Abu Ghraib.

There are other interesting posts there about Iraqi and Middle Eastern reaction as well.

Interesting, but I have to wonder about it. He included a *lot* of dialog, and I know I never remember conversations in that much detail. Further it sounds a little too good to be true frankly. I'd like to believe it, I just don't know if I should.

Not to mention the fact that the recent Red Cross report puts this testimony in an interesting light.

Here's the article (hopefully it won't move anytime
soon):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4944094/

The key point mentioned was that most of the most egregious abuse was done during the interrogation stage and that by the time they were released to the general prison populace, the abuse typically stopped. Of course in a way, it puts a lot of the crap in a more damning light, as it indicates that at least some of it may very well have been intentionally used to extract information from detainees.

Couple that with the suggestion in the article that US intelligence sources figure that 70-90% of the detainees they've netted in their nighttime raids were mistakes, and you have a pretty lousy situation. Sure, Saddam was worse, but we're the USA not some tinpot dictatorship, I expect a heck of a lot more out of our people.

~Jon