Wednesday, April 28, 2010

They did it to themselves

Maliki of Iraq, in a stunningly expected response to allegations of torture in a secret prison, said that this is just not true, there are no such prisons in Iraq.
In response, Prime Minister Maliki said the charges were false and that “there are no secret prisons in Iraq at all,” a claim that seems to be spurious on its face.

Speaking on government-controlled Iraqiya TV, Maliki said the torture charges were "lies," a "smear campaign" orchestrated by foreign embassies and the media that have been tooled by his opponents for political gain.
But then MoI went that extra mile to show he has the right stuff to be a client of the US.
Maliki went even further, positing that opposition lawmakers encouraged prisoners to hatch fake torture charges by “rubbing matches on some of their body parts” to give themselves scars.

He then said it was somewhat acceptable because of the scandal over the US-run Abu Ghraib prison.

“America is the symbol of democracy, but then you have the abuses at Abu Ghraib,” Maliki remarked, according to Dagher's report. “The American government took tough measures, and we are doing the same, so where is the problem and why this raucousness?”
Great defense there. The prisoners tortured their own bodies to make him look bad and besides, we were only doing what the Americans taught us in Abu Ghraib.

Maliki, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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