The other prisoners

[deathboy]

Most of the coverage of abuse at Abu Ghraib has focused on male detainees. But what of the five women held in the jail, and the scores elsewhere in Iraq? Luke Harding reports

Repeat until fade: "THEY are the monsters, not us. THEY are the monsters, not us, TH..."

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[deathboy.livejournal.com]

The point, apart from the fact these people are being raped, which, I'd say, is towards the top of the attrocity stack, and which most won't immediately think of is this:

The shock value of the public when they hear about this news is enormous.

Abusing male iraqis, to the unthinking commoner equates thus:

male iraqi == terrorist == responsible for 9/11

(I KNOW how wrong this is, but that's what half of america seems to think)

the recent beheadings, if not fake, have been used to make the prison attrocities "OK" in the minds of the public.

But once you throw women into the media mix, suddenly, we're some nasty motherfuckers (to Joe Public).

And so they haven't. We haven't heard. We most likely won't hear.

Because hurting women is bad, m'kay, but violating uncharged iraqi detainees for sport is, well, I guess that's just the American (and English) Dream.

[digital-deviant.livejournal.com]

Listen to a lot of US / UK government statements.
They have a very consistent trait of using the words terrorism, or the subject of Sept 11th adjacent to discussion about Iraq / Saddam Hussein.
To the discerning politophile, this will ring out as mere bunk, but to the pedestrian public, who listen to the news "to find out what is going on in the world" (a hilarious concept if you've ever seen Fox News, ABC, NBC or CNN) will take this in without quetion and will be literally riddled with subconscious associations between Saddam Hussein, Terrorism and Sept 11th.
When polled in June of 2003, 60% of US people stated that they believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for Sept 11th.

We must always remember that politics and the interests that drive politics is/are led by very clever, very greedty people who know exactly how to manipulate the public mindset. This is not new concept, the Romans and the Ancient Greeks pulled the same shit.
With all this happening, it makes you realise how Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich were able to convince people that the killing of Jews was somehow right.
Jews were portrayed to the German "mob" as thieves, child molesters, criminals etc...
Orwell hit the nail firmly on the head in 1984 with the 2 minutes hate against [insert name of chosen enemy] in order to convince the proles that constant war on [insert name of chosen enemy] was just and necessary.