House Votes to Destroy Iraqi Prison

House Votes to Destroy Iraqi Prison

Thursday May 20, 2004 11:31 PM


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By LARA JAKES JORDAN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Plans to destroy the prison where Iraqi detainees were humiliated and abused took a small step forward Thursday as lawmakers voted to include it in a multibillion-dollar defense bill.

The plan by Pennsylvania Reps. Curt Weldon, a Republican, and John P. Murtha, a Democrat, would demolish the Abu Ghraib prison and build a modernized detention facility in its place. It was slipped into a $422 billion defense authorization bill that 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,'' 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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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4113887,00.html

is proof that the administration doesn't give a flying FUCK about the Iragi people.

Anyone who believes we give a rat's ass about these people is a fucking FOOL.

tear down the building and pretend it never happened.

a state of the art hospital, or a college? Since we have to pay for it anyway, it might as well be something for good actions.

Not a priority.

in order to have the prison torn down??? The repubs wouldn't be that blatant, would they? Nahhhhh!

I reckon.

It is not our country!!!

That decision is for the people of Iraq.

Let the Iraqis decide what to do with Abu Ghraib. Perhaps they want a museum, or a memorial. Offer funds for whatever purpose, but leave it up to them what to do with it.

The thing that concerns me, as a US citizen, is that we don't make use of the facility, especially not to detain people, and absolutely not to torture people.

This is the Iraqi's Bastille.

I don't suppose they will have a say in making it, say, a monument, sort of like the holocaust museum?

What was I thinking? :shrug:

I can't tell who was first, but the other thread has more replies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x570031