Abu Ghraib

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Published on April 27, 2024 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzNPaaEeb9o

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Graner and England along with their other low ranking comrades were small cogs in a much bigger machine and had been tasked by their commanders with the time consuming, onerous softening up of the detainees for interrogation by “experts” who were either brought in from Guantanamo Bay or were trained by them.

Later investigations suggested, but never proved, a near direct link between the orders of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the torture at Abu Ghraib. No senior military or administration figures were prosecuted let alone convicted.

Despite their desperation for actionable intelligence to help bring the War on Terror to a close the shocking photographs as well as the even more shocking details did the exact opposite by deeply harming US moral authority generally and its credibility as a liberating and democratizing force in Iraq specifically. The Torture at Abu Ghraib was put to good use in the propaganda of its critics and enemies around the world and did a lot to turn the hearts and minds of Iraq’s people against their occupiers.