On May 7, 2004, The Senate Armed Sevices committee began hearings on allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners. In these hearings, General Antonio Taguba offered as testimony a public version of his initial investigation into the abuses of prisoners by American military personel at Abu Ghraib.

In the Taguba Report, Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade, can be found the following:

Part One: Detainee Abuse-Findings

6. I find that the intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts:

b Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;
c Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;
f Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;

8. In addition, several detainees also described the following acts of abuse, which under the circumstances, I find credible based on the clarity of their statements and supporting evidence provided by other witnesses

e Threatening male detainees with rape;
g Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.

In the May 24, 2004 issue of Weekly Standard, Gerecht hatefully trivialized this reprehensible abuse of detainees, which had occurred under the color of authority Imparted by the United States Flag.

Gerecht mused:

"Have the chances of democracy in the Middle East really been set back because sexually sensitive Muslims are so revolted that they won't embrace representative government"

Reuel Marc Gerecht, "Who's Afraid of Abu Ghraib?", Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 35, May 24, 2004

Gerecht should have his "sexual sensitivities" tested by a freeboot Blackwater USA Interrogation specialist whose previous experience was as a Chilean Intellligence Officer during the Pinochet Junta, and whose expertise is the Intelligence Gathering Methodologies of Chemical Light Stick Manipulations.

When Gerecht speaks of this outrage he was forced to endure, we can all derisively laugh at him and say,

"silly neoconniver, chill out,at least your head remains attached to your spine."

Not Under My Flag,
Nor Done In My Name.
The Abuse of Detainees Must Cease