Torture. Degradation. Sexual abuse. Sodomization. Rape. Murder. Rape. Murder.
I've read all the diaries. Followed all the threads. Understood the legal questions, the arguments, the factions, the positions. People, listen to yourselves. Imagine it's 2001, you have found a pair of magic reading glasses which allow you to read in the future, and this is what you find?!
I would surely first, cry. Tears long and bitter. But I don't need to imagine going back. Only yesterday I read about the Daily Telegraph article with Gen. Taguba's statements. I read endless threads and comments. I went back to bed and didn't get up till sundown.
The only proof that matters; The only truth that matters, is right before our eyes on these pages. We have already been reduced to this.
Rape. Murder. It's just a shot away.
Those words, written by Mick Jagger in 1970, as a result of watching an innocent music fan get stabbed and beaten to death right in front of his dancing, naive, body, have never meant more to me.