It’s certainly wrong that the media hasn’t run the story. Whether or not it’s liberal bias or something else, I don’t know.

(Off the top of my head, one “other” possibility is that Abu Garib involved Americans and real prisoners, where this story has neither. If it were Iraqis mistreating Americans in Abu Garib, they still would’ve run the story as hard. On the other hand, if all that was found in Abu Garib was drawings of Americans torturing Iraqis, that story would probably’ve gotten even less play than the AQ torture book has.) ((Let me be clear!!! I’m not claiming this is any reason for anything. I’m saying there’re all kinds of biases, some of which ain’t about liberal/conservative, though. Again, this is NOT my actual thinking on the subject, but a made up example of another bias in the US media.))

Whatever the bias, its no excuse. The story should’ve run. I can see not running/or editing the pictures, though… (Perhaps having them on a news station website, with a “Warning: Graphic images” would be appropriate, but running them on the 6pm news would be tasteless.)

As for the poor guy with the bad glasses & unscented soap, I’ll note 2 things: He’s the one claiming he was mentally tortured, not the BBC story (which even ran “mentally tortured” in quotes), and he also claims he’s innocent of having anything to do with terrorism which, if true, would make his whole detention kinda mentally torturous, just like it would be for any other innocent man in any prison anywhere. Again of course, he’s the only one making the claim.

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Pictures confiscated
Wrong prescription glasses

The REAL torture would be if they replaced their pictures with one of Rosie and then made them wear correct prescription glasses! I’ll bet they’d get alot of intel to make it stop.

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“Unscented soap?”

That might actually be a torture to the other prisoners who live in close proximity to this guy.

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May as well face the facts. If you hear or read it on an Antique MSM outlet it is 99 44/100% wrong or an outright lie. If it’s credited to the Ass ociated (with terrorists) Press or Roto Reuters it’s 99 99/100% a flat out lie.

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Please allow me to introduce anti-war/anti-Bush WMD logic to this:

Just because they found a few pieces of paper that depict torture, doesn’t mean the guys caught with it were torturers.

Just because they had pliers and drills etc doesn’t mean they were going to use those for torture. These are benign objects that are DUAL USE, and not necessarily implements of torture.

Witnesses? Irrelevent. Surely they were just trying to pull something over on the US to make us BELIEVE there was torture going on there.

What? The guys caught at the torture house have a history of torture? That doesn’t matter. Just because someone has (literally) written a book on torture doesn’t mean that they are torturers. They could have just been innocent carpenters busted in a Bush scheme to boost poll numbers by making the world THINK there was torture going on (busted by the neocons surely by the use of an Iraqi version of the Patriot Act which caught them checking out the books on torture.

See, a group of guys with a history of torture are not necessarily torturers. They could have gone to Iraq to retire, and just have had an old manual lying around in their garage with blood stained carpentry tools.

Oh, and there’s no proof they were Al Queda either, in fact, it seems highly unlikely since Democrats (ie honest politicians) tell us that Al Queda is not in Iraq. Actually, there are no terrorists in Iraq. These guys are drilling out people’s kneecaps for freedom.

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