(WARNING: Don’t click on the link if you don’t want to see what actually happens in war, even “humanitarian” wars, the only kind, of course, the U.S. ever fights.)

These folks certainly must be grateful that George Bush liberated them from the hellhole of lawless prisons where torture and abuse ran rampant.

UPDATE: And more on the horror here:

“A fifty-three-page report…written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and not meant for public release, was completed in late February. Its conclusions about the institutional failures of the Army prison system were devastating. Specifically, Taguba found that between October and December of 2003 there were numerous instances of ‘sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses’ at [the prison]. This systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, Taguba reported, was perpetrated by soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, and also by members of the American intelligence community. (The 372nd was attached to the 320th M.P. Battalion, which reported to Karpinski’s brigade headquarters.) Taguba’s report listed some of the wrongdoing:

‘Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.’”

Yes, indeed, good thing that monster Saddam is gone.

UPDATE (5/2): Amnesty International says this abuse is just “the tip of the iceberg.”