Abu Ghraib, USA

An article from Anne-Marie Cusac in The Progressive:

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In conversations over the past few weeks, I have heard outrage and anger over the abuse at Abu Ghraib. I have rarely heard such reactions in connection with abuse of prisoners in the United States.

When we tolerate abuse in U.S. prisons and jails, it should not surprise us to find U.S. soldiers using similar methods in Iraq.

George Bush said he was exporting democracy to Iraq, but he seems to have exported a much uglier aspect of American public policy--some of the most sadistic practices employed in the U.S. prison system.

Contrasting the way Iraqi prisoners were treated at Abu Ghraib and the way inmates are treated in American jails, she doesn't find much of one at all.