Holy Jesus above, who in their right mind thought this is gonna turn out well? "See, what we need to do is find way to further fracture them along religious lines..."
Stone's "peppy stalinism" [as described at the link] smacks of someone who's consumed entirely too much of the Kool Aid. Or has watched Dr Strangelove too many times, and didn't realize it was a comedy. I keep picturing George C. Scott, ranting about the Big Board.
"House of Wisdom"? "...rotten eggs... hiding in the Easter basket"?
Are you freaking kidding me?
Balloon Juice - Reeducation Camps:
"The U.S. military has introduced "religious enlightenment" and other education programs for Iraqi detainees, some of whom are as young as 11, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, said yesterday.
Stone said such efforts, aimed mainly at Iraqis who have been held for more than a year, are intended to "bend them back to our will" and are part of waging war in what he called "the battlefield of the mind." Most of the younger detainees are held in a facility that the military calls the "House of Wisdom."
...The 25,000 detainees now being held in U.S. facilities in Iraq include more than 820 juveniles, Stone said, most of whom are held in the House of Wisdom, which opened last month and is located at the Camp Victory military base near Baghdad's airport. He said that six additional young people had been sent to him just yesterday, and that "the trend is towards the youth," including 11-, 12- and 13-year-olds. He described older juveniles -- the 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds -- as "harder nuts" and said that 50 to 60 of them have been removed from U.S. detention facilities and turned over to Iraqi authorities for trial.
...The new religious training, Stone said, helps U.S. forces pinpoint the hard-core extremists. "I want to know who they are," he said. "They're like rotten eggs, you know, hiding in the Easter basket.""
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