Abu Ghraib Quotes

• Lamentablemente, ha quedado claro que la tortura de detenidos bajo custodia estadounidense no se limita a Abu Ghraib o incluso a Irak. Desde Abu Ghraib, los informes de tortura han ido en aumento.

  Marty Meehan

  Iraq, United States, Custody

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• We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Soldier, Affair

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• Es importante reconocer las diferencias entre la guerra en Irak y la guerra contra el terrorismo. El tratamiento de los detenidos en Abu Ghraib se rige por las Convenciones de Ginebra, firmadas tanto por Estados Unidos como por Irak.

  John Yoo

  Guerra, Iraq, Diferencias

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• No conozco a nadie al más alto nivel que haya aprobado Abu Ghraib. Si el presidente Barack Obama pensara por un momento que alguien de alto nivel lo aprobó, iría a por él.

  Peter King

  EE.UU., Presidente, Niveles

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• El esfuerzo por difuminar las fronteras entre Guantánamo y Abu Ghraib refleja un profundo malentendido sobre los distintos regímenes jurídicos que se aplican a Irak y a la guerra contra Al Qaeda.

  John Yoo

  Guerra, Irak, Esfuerzo

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• In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Light, Law

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• Lo ocurrido en la prisión de Abu Ghraib, en Irak, es una de las violaciones más graves de los derechos humanos contemplados en los Convenios de Ginebra de las que tenemos constancia. Es sencillamente monstruoso.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Derechos, Iraq, Registros

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• Tanto si consideramos la Alemania nazi como la prisión de Abu Ghraib, hubo muchas personas que observaron lo que ocurría y no dijeron nada. En Abu Ghraib, una foto muestra a dos soldados sonriendo ante una pirámide de prisioneros desnudos mientras otra docena de soldados permanecen de pie observando pasivamente. Si observas esos abusos y no dices: "¡Esto está mal! Basta!", das tu aprobación tácita para que continúen. Formas parte de la mayoría silenciosa que hace que los actos malvados sean más aceptables.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Dos, Pirámides, Mal

  "La banalidad del heroísmo", por Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. 1 de septiembre de 2006.

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• When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

  Andrew Sullivan

  "'We Do Not Torture'". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. June 18, 2008.

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• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

  Arundhati Roy

  Niños, Guerra, Lucha

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• Incluso si eres liberal en el mundo musulmán, cuando ves Abu Ghraib y Guantánamo, y ves todos los demás informes de abusos cometidos por las fuerzas estadounidenses, es muy difícil levantarse y decir: "Deberíamos simular las costumbres estadounidenses", porque esta es la cara de Estados Unidos ahora en el mundo musulmán, para muchos musulmanes.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  América, Abuso, Mundo

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.

  Michael Hardt

  Military, Practice, United States

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases the threat of terror. It lays the basis for terror. It's just like the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. They're the most fabulous recruiting techniques for Al Qaeda and ISIS.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Isis, Atrocities

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

  Bruce Cockburn

  People, Saddam

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Fighting, Government, Excess

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  Jill Soloway

  Tattoo, Eight, Hands

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Giving, Realization, Vivid

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• I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends.

  Dennis Miller

  Sorry, Couple, Cutting

  "The Dennis Miller Show", June 08, 2004.

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• The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.

  Cervezas Rand

  Running, Navy, Captains

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• What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.

  Alí Jamenei

  Bullying, Different, Prison

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• Los periodistas y políticos estadounidenses dieron un perfecto espectáculo al debatir la polémica sobre la prisión de Abu Ghraib.

  Tony Snow

  Perfect, Prison, Politician

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• Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Atrocities, Photograph, Shocked

  "EDITORIAL: Hunter S. Thompson went too far" by Ashley ODell, www.imediaethics.org. May 25, 2004.

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