Billmon on new,
kinder torture palace Abu Ghraib:
The summary execution of prisoners, the “disappearing” of prisoners, the perversion of the tools of medicine into instruments of death and repression — these were all among the foulest crimes of Saddam’s regime. So it would seem that the only differences between the old Abu Ghraib and the new Abu Ghraib are ones of scale, not kind, and that’s not enough to draw a fundamental distinction between them.
Congratulations, George. Mission accomplished.