More Abu Ghraib

OK, so the first of the soldiers has been sentenced, a year in jail and a dishonourable discharge. Maximum sentence possible plus he has to testify against the others. OK, justice is starting to be done. Then there’s this :

# Abu Ghraib prison will be renamed Camp Redemption, Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq, told a US Senate committee.
The Baghdad prison which has become the focus of the most serious abuse allegations was formerly one of Saddam Hussein’s most notorious torture centres.

Has no one read any Orwell ? Newspeak people, Newspeak. Empty it and raze it to the ground, ploughing the site with salt. That would be the appropriate symbolism.

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