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Errol Morris and the Smoking Gun of Abu Ghraib
By Kyle | April 6, 2008
Did you know the Iraqi prisoner standing on the box in the famous Abu Ghraib photo didn’t really believe he was going to be electrocuted, that he laughed at his captors’ silly threats, that he was only on the box 10 or 15 minutes, and that he later palled around with some of the soldiers who were later castigated for their “torture” of prisoners? Errol Morris’s Abu Ghraib documentary “Standard Operating Procedure,” which casts the enlisted soldiers convicted of abuse in a sympathetic light, searches for a higher power to blame for their acts–but doesn’t find one. More in my post on Commentary’s website.
Topics: Iraq, Movies, Politics |