Remember the good ol' days, when national security just meant opening fire on unarmed college students?

Those were simpler times. The soul-crushing, despair-inducing, rage-making story I'm about to link to is entitled: "Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos." I'm telling you, nobody does blooper reels like the U.S. Armed Forces!

The "Hersh" being referred to is none other than The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh. Here's a sample:

"Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."

Thanks to BoingBoing for putting this story in front of me, and thanks to the people that brought it to BoingBoing's attention. And, as always, a special thanks to our president, George W. Bush, for disgracing the presidency, destroying our global credibility and making the world a more dangerous place.
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