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...confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize a male detainee. A still shot portrays an anguished female prisoner lifting her shirt to expose her breasts. Another photo zeroes in on the face and torso of a detainee smeared with what appear...
...Cross and other human rights experts, that the Bush Administration has systematically applied at U.S. detention centers around the world. When the President declared his no-holds-barred war on terrorism, top officials announced that the Geneva Conventions wouldn't cover prisoners held at Guantanamo. A soldier involved with intelligence at the base told TIME that interrogators there had been formally briefed on how the treaty didn't apply to their captives. "There were no bright lines on what you could and couldn't do," he says. It was clear that in high-priority cases, "all sorts of tactics could...
...walk." At first, failure sent him spiraling. Some among the Polish media mocked him. "They were guessing when in a race I would be disqualified - 25 km? 30 km?" he says. "Everyone said, 'Leave the sport.' I had no financial support, no mental support. I was a single soldier in the big world." And he fought back, transforming himself psychologically. "I realized I was just playing the game with everyone else in a race," he says. "But I needed to be the master of my own strategy, to make it my competition, to make them respond to me." Method became...
...Governor Bush, who recognizes him and says, "Behave yourself, will ya? Go and find real work." Moore's goal here is to show the corruptive influence of the war on Iraq: coarsening the American spirit at home and abroad, killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. One of the men in custody apparently has an erection under his blanket; a soldier swats it and says, "Ali Baba has a hard-on," while another G.I. shouts, in a schoolboy's merry derision, "You touched his dick!" Toward...
...This parable illustrates not only the qualities of an ethical soldier, but also lays out some of the qualities of humane violence. Humane violence expresses what is just, not what serves one?s interests. It encourages maturity, civility and honor. It limits pain to what the law requires. It does not add humiliation to suffering, nakedness to pain. And if life must be taken, one returns the body swiftly to families for the proper burial rituals...