House votes to destroy Iraq prison

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040520/ap_on_go_co/prisoner_abuse_prison&cid=512&ncid=1480

WASHINGTON - A proposal to destroy the prison where Iraqi detainees were abused moved forward Thursday as lawmakers voted to include it in a defense spending bill.


The measure, by Pennsylvania Reps. Curt Weldon, a Republican, and John P. Murtha, a Democrat, would demolish the Abu Ghraib prison and build a modern detention facility in its place. It was included in a $422 billion defense authorization bill the House approved Thursday.


"This prison was a symbol of terrorism under Saddam, and it was an institution that the Iraqi people despised," Weldon said.


The abuse that happened at the prison "really created a bad perception in Iraq (news - web sites)," Weldon said. "So my feeling is, tear it down. Get rid of it Not just because of what a few soldiers did, but because of also because of what that symbol meant to Saddam, and show the Iraqi people, 'Hey, we don't want that kind of torture anymore.'"

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Bad, bad building!

Camp redemption... you mean we want to destroy Redemption

The sad thing is, a "modern detention facility" is to be built in its place. Bush will have a more efficient and modern torture chamber after the old one is destroyed.

Camp Redemption has an awfully fudie sounding ring to it, don't you think?

if it also means destroying all the bad people responsible for the mistreatment.

That they would have the unmitigated temerity, stupidity, blindness and arrogance to choose that term - redemption - may be one of the clear indications that they just don't care/ don't know/ don't want to know.

Maybe we can get what's left of Anne Frank's faimily to dedicate it and we can all buy memorial bricks for its entrance way.




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EOM

yeah, I'm sure THAT won't have any bad reputation in Iraq!

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$100 says it will have extensive underground facilities

I thought we could...

let Halliburton do it? No shame at all!!!
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Suggestions?

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=63927

Built by British business during the 1960s, the prison sprawls over 115 hectares, with high walls, watchtowers and barbed wire.

and turn it into a museum of torture, a complete history of instruments of torture, including the rack, the iron maiden, the yellow walls, the white chair ...

Abu Ghraib should not be torn down. It should be turned into a museum of torture, as a reminder (like the Holocaust museums) of the horrors people are capable of.

Tearing it down is not going to erase from memory what our people have done, Mr. Weldon, Mr. Murtha.

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I love the idea of turning this over to Amnesty for their Middle East HQ. then we need an outpost on the Gaza Strip. Next stop Saudi Arabia and on to Egypt.

I could barely sleep afterwards, some of the things people come up with to torment other human beings... it's very disturbing

and app. 75% of the devices on display were designed for use on women, by the Church

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Where life is good and that evil building that made all the soldiers do those bad things is replaced by a modern facility built by Halliburton! Yippee!!

Destroy the building and you destroy the memory of what happened there. Typical, though.

why not a memorial to their resiliance as a culture, or museum to honor their 6000 years of civilization, or hospital, or rehabilitation center, or orphanage. They need those things too.

for what? Listen $422 billion is a lot of money. Is that a typo?

Who owns this property?

the mob will drop their pitchforks and torches and go home.

Oh, I see. They've got a contract deal to build a new one in the fire that will be good for Bush and Iraq...Uhhhh.

they wouldn't have to tear that place down to show sincerity.

Pay Halliburton to tear down the reminder of Compassionate Conservatism in Action and replace it with a Halliburton monument to *.

name it after Reagan.. don't they always want to name things after their alzheimer riddled, senile excuse for a tin Stalin?

"The Ronald Reagan Memorial Torture Center"

**they are destroying evidence, they did it immediately after they murdered Saddam's sons..

why not just turn it all into a fucking parking lot for commuting Halliburton employees as they take over the middle east, spreading joy everywhere they go..


IMPEACH all these monsters. I want to see OUR Military arrest and imprison Bush and his pals for war crimes.

That way the can destroy any more evidence of American torture chambers & rape rooms. Hey, it worked to get rid of any evidence at the WTC site.

Let's preserve this site as a historical monument for the whole world to see.

A museum that would depict the torture chambers of Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush.
Complete with mannequins that depict the likes of Military guards like Lynndie England doing all
her antics. Snarling dogs barking at naked Iraqis and then turned loose.

The murder the blood the maimed and the heart break of the loved ones should never be forgotten.

As human beings we should all be ashamed and reminded daily of our weaknesses.

The Holocaust is still alive in the heart and minds of us and the Nazi concentration camps are still alive as historical monuments why not Abu Ahraib?