This latest document supports detainees' accounts that American soldiers routinely used religious symbols to degrade and humiliate them.

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "
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... The ACLU document dump on the latest abuses is one I'm spending the weekend poring over. The documents are previously classified appendices to the various military reports I reviewed here. I want to read them all before I comment, but after a mere hour, the picture is in line with much of the previous evidence. This really does go all the way up to the very top. Money quote from the ACLU's summary:

This latest document supports detainees' accounts that American soldiers routinely used religious symbols to degrade and humiliate them. In a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Human Rights First against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, one Iraqi detainee charged that soldiers taunted him by having a military dog pick up the Koran in its mouth. Another Iraqi detainee claimed that soldiers threw the Koran on the floor and stepped on it. In addition, in a set of documents released by the FBI in response to the ACLU's FOIA in December, a Guant�namo detainee alleged that a guard told him he beat him because the guard was a Christian and the detainee was a Muslim.

It just gets better, doesn't it? The damage all this has done to our cause among moderate Muslims and democratic allies is incalculable. I'm sorry but throwing Laura at the problem is a pathetic response."