Robert Fisk vuelve a poner el dedo en la llaga con su artículo «[«Rewriting Iraq’s History»:http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=5607]».
The re-writing of Iraqi history is now going on at supersonic speed. Weapons of mass destruction? Forget it. Links between Saddam and al-Qa’ida? Forget it. Liberating the Iraqis from Saddam’s Abu Ghraib life of torture? Forget it. Wedding party slaughtered? Forget it. Clear the decks for both «full (sic) sovereignty» and «chaotic events». This is, at any rate, according to Mr Bush. When I heard his hesitant pronunciation of Abu Ghraib as «Abu Grub» on Monday night, I could only profoundly agree.
But we’re in danger again of missing the detail. Just as the unsupervised armed mercenaries being killed in Iraq are being described by the occupation authorities as «contractors» or, more mendaciously, «civilians»–so the responsibility for the porno interrogations at Abu Ghraib is being allowed to slide into the summer mists over the Tigris river. So let’s go back, for a moment, to the long weeks in which the Department of Bad Apples allowed its jerks to put leashes around Iraqi necks, forced prisoners to have sex with each other and raped some Iraqi women in the jail.
And let’s cast our eyes upon that little, all-important matter of responsibility. The actual interrogators accused of encouraging US troops to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail were working for at least one company with extensive military and commercial contacts with Israel. The head of an American company whose personnel are implicated in the Iraqi tortures, it now turns out, attended an «anti-terror» training camp in Israel and, earlier this year, was presented with an award by Shaul Mofaz, the right-wing Israeli defence minister.