The troops hate the troops

The U.S. Army has launched a criminal investigation into new allegations of serious prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan made by a decorated former Captain in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, an Army spokesman has confirmed to TIME.
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The new allegations center around systematic abuse of Iraqi detainees by men of the 82nd Airborne at Camp Mercury, a forward operating base located near Fallujah
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Much of the abuse allegedly occurred in 2003 and 2004, before and during the period the Army was conducting an internal investigation into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, but prior to when the abuses at Abu Ghraib became public.
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The Captain is quoted in the report describing how military intelligence personnel at Camp Mercury directed enlisted men to conduct daily beatings of prisoners prior to questioning; to subject detainees to strenuous forced exercises to the point of unconsciousness; and to expose them to extremes of heat and cold—all methods designed to produce greater cooperation with interrogators.
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Specific instances of abuse described in the Human Rights Watch report include severe beatings, including one incident when a soldier allegedly broke a detainee's leg with a metal bat. Others include prisoners being stacked in human pyramids (unlike the human pyramids at Abu Ghraib, the prisoners at Camp Mercury were clothed); soldiers administering blows to the face, chest and extremities of prisoners; and detainees having their faces and eyes exposed to burning chemicals, (emphasis mine) being forced into stress positions for long periods leading to unconsciousness and having their water and food withheld.

There's more.

I just watched a clip of Bill O'Reilly giving Wesley Clark a hard time for meeting with Cindy Sheehan. Apparently Cindy Sheehan is some sort of wild radical who hates America. But i'll tell ya what's radical. Radical is acting like Pol Pot. Radical is turning a blind eye when your President acts like Pol Pot. Radical is defending people for acting like Pol Pot.

To anyone who thinks Howard Dean is radical (you know who you are), i'll make a bet, if you're willing, and we'll let God be the judge. When we die, i go where Howard Dean goes, and you go where George Bush goes. Takers?

And oh by the way. Perhaps we should revisit Dick Durbin's comments.

"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings," Durbin said. "Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

I still have no idea why he apologized. Oh wait, yes i do. Because Conservatives whined too much when he said them.