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August 16, 2004
Abu Ghraib Claims Another Victim
When news of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison broke, Army Spc. Joseph Darby's family said they were proud the soldier revealed photos documenting the mistreatment. But they never expected their own friends and neighbors would turn on them for what they considered a brave disclosure.
In a note to his commander, Darby, 24, described the incidents and photographs he had seen, depicting the abuse by people in his own unit, the 372nd Military Police Company.
"We did not receive the response I thought we would. People were, they were mean, saying he was a walking dead man, he was walking around with a bull's-eye on his head. It was scary," Bernadette Darby, Joseph Darby's wife, said today on ABC News' Good Morning America.
This is what you get when a people has been trained to believe that their government's actions are always good and that anyone their government decides is deserving of punishment is therefore deserving of punishment. It is clearly a sign of a barbarian mentality.
Read the whole story here (and note that Darby is "still in protective military custody at an undisclosed location").
Posted by Mike Tennant at August 16, 2004 01:12 PM