Video: The torture house of Diyala
posted at 11:38 am on December 19, 2007 by Bryan
Fox ran this story earlier and our friends at Red Lasso managed to catch it. To put it mildly, stories like this can’t get enough coverage but they somehow seldom get much if any coverage at all. Like the slaughterhouses of Fallujah, the torture house of Diyala will probably slip under the MSM radar within hours of the first reports.
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When they do it it’s not torture!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on December 19, 2007 at 11:43 AM
No doubt they did hours of waterboarding in every room..
Hoodlumman on December 19, 2007 at 11:44 AM
Isn’t there a new torture movie coming out? I wonder if they included this?
Oh wait, that’s only when Americans “torture.” No need making a movie about anyone else.
CookeyD on December 19, 2007 at 11:45 AM
Seeing things like this and the drawings that were found months ago…
Tell all these Code Pink punks to go through some of this crap now that they’ve waterboarded themselves. Let’s see if they can compare and contrast.
MadisonConservative on December 19, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Moral relativism will require equating this with stress positions and, of course, water-boarding. So, of course, any MSM mention of this will have to be balanced with references to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
Still-A-Neocon
stillaneocon on December 19, 2007 at 11:47 AM
I wouldn’t quite go that far, but I wish that Code Pink and the rest of the “waterboarding is torture” crowd could be forced to watch the entire video of that torture house.
Bigfoot on December 19, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Meh. The pertinent questions are: were those prisoners allowed to pray five times a day; were they fed according to their dietary and religious customs; and was there a Koran in the toilet? If the answer to either of the first two questions was no or the answer to the third question was yes, that’s how we’d know if that torture chamber crossed any lines that might warrant international outrage. I didn’t see anything that looked like waterboarding equipment, either. So I’m sure what our enemies were doing there is no reason for international protests. Just exercising their cultural differences, is all. Nothing to see, move along.
aero on December 19, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Yep, if it’s covered at all, it’ll be, “See what we bring upon ourselves by disgusting acts like Abu Ghraib? They’re only following our lead.”
Matticus Finch on December 19, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Not just the MSM. I wonder if anyone on the floors of the house and senate will make a point of this, while doing a compare and contrast of their own. I won’t be holding my breath.
tomk59 on December 19, 2007 at 11:51 AM
No doubt they only began to do this after we waterboarded suspects at Gitmo. Before that, they were handing candy out and saving homeless puppies.
amerpundit on December 19, 2007 at 11:52 AM
I would bet that the MSM would refer to it as “Freedom-Torture”.
And by the way, who are we to say that it is wrong for them to do it? Maybe it is a culteral (sp) thing.
Jared_MA on December 19, 2007 at 12:04 PM
The inhumanity, sadism and villany of our enemies if of NO CONCERN to the leftist America haters.
But if we DARE deprive Gitmo detainees of 3 hot meals a day — halal of course — and gift certificates to Abercrombie and Fitch, its CALL OUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS !!!!
Always Right on December 19, 2007 at 12:05 PM
And it was sooooo difficult for the “detainees” to get a good night’s sleep on that electrafied wire frame bed.
John McCain, do you really think this behavior is a result of us waterboarding KSM? If you do then you are a fool.
Zetterson on December 19, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Remember: They wouldn’t do this if we hadn’t done it first, just ask any MSM or Democratic Party member. This is simply payback for the atrocities committed by our evil, sadistic military that pays no heed to the Geneva Convention and the locals that support their illegal occupation and crimes against humanity. It’s all our fault, always is.
Grunt2Jag on December 19, 2007 at 12:11 PM
But, you know what that Huffpo writer said. If we waterboard ‘em now, its a slippery slope. It won’t be long until we too are conducting such brutal forms of torture as this. sarc off.
Zetterson on December 19, 2007 at 12:11 PM
It takes the Democratic party seconds to realize they can’t use against Bush or the troops and just stick with their usual talking point about water-boarding.
When do we get to see some moonbats in orange suits chainsawing one of their own for peace?
Hening on December 19, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Hey Dems – THAT is torture. What our troops and intelligence personnel do is NOT. Get a clue.
CP on December 19, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Thank God, no water boarding.
Captain America on December 19, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Uh huh. If this were made in hollywood and sold in the movie houses, it would be a big draw for the robzombie asshats who love this slash-n-gore crap.
But, as it is, since it doesn’t involve trashing America or its armed forces…..down the memory hole it goes.
locomotivebreath1901 on December 19, 2007 at 12:24 PM
As long as they didn’t stoop so low as to employee water boarding [the mother of all tortures] then whats the problem?
TheSitRep on December 19, 2007 at 12:29 PM
This fictional story fits right in to this.
Equivalency
shick on December 19, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Come on guys we all know thats a picture of Gitmo.
/sarchasm off
Btw, Meagen Kelly is officially the phynest woman on television.
broker1 on December 19, 2007 at 12:43 PM
If you want to get it in the news, tell a reporter that it was a CIA torture chamber, let the news get out, then set the record straight. If it was US doing that, it would be on the news every 5 minutes.
crosspatch on December 19, 2007 at 12:51 PM
We’re not dealing with a enemy that cares whether we torture or not.
Rationalizing that if we don’t torture, they won’t either is like asking a rabid dog not to bite. Sure, we’re above torturing like these creatures, but I would put waterboarding as more psychological torture since it gives the feeling of drowning, but you don’t drown.
Kini on December 19, 2007 at 12:52 PM
It’s not moral relativism. It’s an anti-Christian conspiracy. Leftism works overtime to mock Matthew 7:5. Our leftist hypocrites first need to take the speck out of their own eye so they can see clearly the log in their brother’s eye.
thuja on December 19, 2007 at 1:04 PM
But . . . did they make anyone wear womens’ clothing?
Labamigo on December 19, 2007 at 1:09 PM
:) Struck my funny bone
wytammic on December 19, 2007 at 1:22 PM
The worst part of the tour, a site where an ugly chick would point at the victims wee-wee and laugh.
Oh the humanity!
conservnut on December 19, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Did not see any evidence of waterboarding, oh yeah, i forgot, that’s torture.
oldernslower on December 19, 2007 at 2:51 PM
If the average American moron had the slightest clue what goes on in an average Saudi police station six days a week, they’d hardly be surprised at this video and would laugh at the very notion of waterboarding.
Americans, by and large (and I’m one of them) have no stomach for what goes on around the world. Our notions of right and wrong are seemingly formed by a misspent childhood plunked in front of the TV watching Disney and Sesame Street.
When I returned from four years in Saudi, I kissed the ground. And both of my hands itch to wrap themselves around Harry Reid’s neck.
thejackal on December 19, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Good thing you didn’t steal anything while there, as you would likely have no hands left to itch for anything.
CurtZHP on December 19, 2007 at 5:07 PM