After visiting six of the twenty-five or
so U.S. prisons, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported
registering 107 detainess under eighteen, some as young as eight years old.
The Journalist Seymour Hersh reported in May, 2005 that Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had recieve a report that there were "800-900
Pakistani boys age 13-15 in custody." The International Red Cross,
Amnesty International, and the Pentagon have gathered substantial
testimony of torture of children, confirmed by soldiers who
witnessed or participated in the abuse. In addition to personal
testimony from children about physical and mental mistreatment, a
report from Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of
Abu Ghraib, described a visit to an eleven year old detainee in the
cell block that housed high risk prisoners. The general recalled that
the child was weeping, and "he told me he was almost twelve," and that
"he really wanted to see his mother, could he please call his mother."
Children like this eleven year old have been denied the right to see
their parents, a lawyer, or anyone else, and were not told why they
were detained. A Pentagon spokesman told Mr. Hersh that "age is not a
determining factor in detention." (Emphasis added.)

If it were your eight-year-old or eleven-year-old...

What sickens me most is the depths of
the perversion of Christianity that allowed this to happen, and the
so-called Christians who still support the current administration. This
is what Jesus would do? May THAT Jesus rot in Hell, along with all his
sick, demented followers.

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