All fantasies, right Mos? Hersh is a Pullitzer Prize winning journalist and none of his stories have been denied/disproven in the time I've been following him (almost 10 years).
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/ ... index.html$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape
War Room
Thursday, Jul 15, 2004 10:26 PDT
Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape
By Geraldine Sealey
After Donald Rumsfeld testified on the Hill about Abu Ghraib in May, there was talk of more photos and video in the Pentagon's custody more horrific than anything made public so far. "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse," Rumsfeld said. Since then, the Washington Post has disclosed some new details and images of abuse at the prison. But if Seymour Hersh is right, it all gets much worse.
Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. The speech was first reported in a New York Sun story last week, which was in turn posted on Jim Romenesko's media blog, and now EdCone.com and other blogs are linking to the video. We transcribed the critical section here (it starts at about 1:31:00 into the ACLU video.) At the start of the transcript here, you can see how Hersh was struggling over what he should say:
"Debating about it, ummm ... 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."
F*cking fantasies, Mos???? Cheeky *******. I think you are obviously an intelligent and well-read guy. But my god man, is there any doubt as to why I am so impassioned when there is doubt about how this sort of thing can exist? It does!