Is That Legal?: "We will not escape the damage we have done to the people of Iraq in our prisons."

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February 9, 2007

"We will not escape the damage we have done to the people of Iraq in our prisons."

rmy linguist Eric Fair writes today of his complicity in prisoner abuse in Iraq. It is stunning stuff.

"I am desperate to get on with my life and erase my memories of my experiences in Iraq. But those memories and experiences do not belong to me. They belong to history. If we're doomed to repeat the history we forget, what will be the consequences of the history we never knew? The citizens and the leadership of this country have an obligation to revisit what took place in the interrogation booths of Iraq, unpleasant as it may be. The story of Abu Ghraib isn't over. In many ways, we have yet to open the book."

Posted by Eric at February 9, 2007 9:37 AM