Yep, the Army investigated itself and couldn't help uncovering further damning details at Abu Ghraib. Among the most pathetic: soldiers torturing kids by having contests in which they frightened the hell out of young teenagers with attack dogs. The winner? The one who made a kid urinate on himself first.
"It has nothing to do with interrogation," said one Army officer familiar with the report. "It was just them on their own being weird." And the report includes further confirmation of rape.
So, with details including the sadistic treatment of kids and war crimes like rape, this Army report must have called for some pretty heavy penalties, right? Wrong.
"Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, then the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is named in the report for leadership deficiencies and failing to deal with rising problems at the prison as he tried to manage 150,000 troops countering an unexpected insurgency. Sanchez, however, will not be recommended for any punitive action or even a letter of reprimand."
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