Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media

Why do the images from Abu Ghraib prison that showed young women smiling, giving thumbs-up, while abusing naked Iraqi prisoners fascinate us? How can they maintain at their trials that they did it "just for fun"? Is the military using women as weapons of war? Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, discusses these issues at the Feb. 6 Thinking Out of the Lunch Box.

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[lelyn1234]

Alfred W. McCoy history professor and author of a book on torture in the Philippine armed forces, has noted similarities in the abusive treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the techniques described in the CIA's 1963 "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation" manual and asserts that what he calls "the CIA's no-touch torture methods" have been in continuous use by the CIA and U.S. military intelligence since that time.

[SirWinstoneChurchill]

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First, you'll have to stop the Justice Department from using the ATF to send guns into Mexico and actually do something about the border...

[wadialsham]

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