A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees ” some as young as 10″ are also being subjected to rape and torture
And still this story doesn’t splash all over the major television and print news outlets. It’s been bouncing around since Seymour Hersh’s first reports. A Google search on an unfortunate but important phrase in the story brings it up all over the blogiverse and the international news. It’s been touched on by a couple of our major papers, but it still hasn’t broken the surface of the national concience (or consciousness).
Why?
Probably because nobody in their right mind would want to believe it. So it’s still bumping along the bottom, where the loonies and bloggers hang out.
Via Jesus’ General, strong patriot and manly non-Frenchman.
