Article: What We Learned from WikiLeaks | The Nation

What We Learned from WikiLeaks | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/156388/what-we-learned-wikileaks

At this time in Iraq, executed victims were being found in the streets with electric-drill holes in their bodies.

American forces were thus routinely handing over Iraqi suspects to Iraqi forces who routinely tortured them, and then nothing further was done. This proceeding did not constitute abuse of some other, better system that provided the rule; it was the system—a torture system. Elsewhere in the “war on terror,” “extraordinary rendition”—the practice of sending prisoners to foreign countries to be tortured—required long flights on CIA Gulfstream jets. In Iraq it was a matter of walking across the street. In the days leading up to the war, of course, the United States frequently cited the Saddam Hussein regime’s practice of torture as a reason for invading. Now America’s own client regime was engaging in widespread torture.

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