Bush calls Iraq abuse 'abhorrent'

Found on BBC on Wednesday, 05 May 2004
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President George W Bush has denounced the mistreatment of Iraqi inmates by US soldiers as "abhorrent".

He rejected comparisons of the US treatment of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison to the practices under the Saddam Hussein regime, when the jail became notorious for the torture carried out there.

President Bush was not asked to apologise, nor did he offer an apology during either 10-minute interview.

US military officials say there have been 25 deaths of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2002, two of which have been classified as murder.

Major General Geoffrey Miller, the new US military chief of prisons in Iraq, said some interrogation techniques used on Iraqi inmates would be halted and others toned down as a result of the scandal.

Not even an excuse? No wonder people don't like the presence of US troops when they act more like occupying forces than helpers. Are this the results of those "interrogation techniques"? And while talking about Iraqi inmates people should also remember that there is still Guantanamo Bay.