I’m not really sure what to make of this report except to say blech.

When the Obama Administration backtracked off its plan to release select photos from Abu Ghraib I, like all other good liberals, was annoyed.  I understand the politics and hell, I’m willing to cut the guy some slack considering the total apocalyptic disaster he inherited.  But, President Obama is a Constitutional scholar and a man who understands that any country that purports to speak for justice must also practice justice.  

My biggest disappointment in this most recent iteration of torturegate is the silence from the left, the right, women’s groups, just about anyone with a mouth and an opinion on the rape allegations.  The outrage over waterboarding is well-placed and appropriate.  But what about the allegations, apparently verified with photographic evidence, of soldiers raping male detainees, some as young as fourteen?  Where’s the outrage over female detainees being raped and sexually humiliated by groups of American soldiers as a routine part of interrogation?  I guess when compared to simulated drowning rape and sexual humiliation seem kind of mild.  Really?  If that is the case then what kind of fucked up world are we living in?

Rape is a tool of power and oppression.  Now we have the pictures to prove it.  Identify any other incident of photographic evidence of say, genocide in action that would pass by without so much as a blip from law enforcement.  Rape is a war crime.  Now its time to prosecute it.