George Bush Sanctioned Rape Rooms?

Jonathan Finer and Ellen Knickmeyer also report:

Inmates in another photo clustered around chains hung from the middle of
one of the crowded cells. The chains were used to hoist prisoners by their
bound hands, Zobaie said. The practice, noted frequently in inspection reports
of Interior Ministry detention centers, often results in the dislocation of
prisoners’ shoulders.

Ninety percent of the men crowded into Interior Ministry detention centers
are Sunni Arabs, Zobaie said. He called treatment in the Interior Ministry
prisons “inhumane” and indicated it still was less than certain whether the
Defense and Interior ministries would follow through on their agreement to
turn over the inmates to the Justice Ministry. “Hopefully, they will,” he
said.

As I have said in previous posts, the civil war underway in Iraq is breaking
the way of the Shia.  Moqtada al Sadr’s Badr militia are the big boys on
the block with the muscle and means to enforce their will.  Most of our
troops are attacking Sunni insurgents and terrorists.  The Shias generally
avoid attacking us because, why antagonize us when we’re doing their dirty work
for them. 

I cannot wait to watch how George and Condi will square this circle. 
We’re helping a group of Shia religious extremists who have close ties to Iran
consolidate power in Iraq.  Meanwhile, we’re threatening Iran with dire
consequences if they don’t surrender their nuclear program.  This Dr. Jekyl
and Mr. Hyde policy is getting our kids killed and putting our security at
risk.  And now, worst of all, on top of the abuses of Abu Ghraib, we are
perceived as tolerating, if not sanctioning, the torture and rape of Sunni
prisoners.

Will George and Rummy wind up at the Hague some day and be asked to answer
for Saddam style rape rooms?  Just a
thought.