There appears to be evidence of a good deal of child rape conducted by Iraqi guards at Abu Ghraib against the children of female detainees while the prison was under American control. It wouldn't surprise me in the least given the leve of depravity that was normal in prisons under Saddam's regime, and that pederasty is a serious social problem in many Islamic countries (especially in the Middle East). So far, the charges don't seem to be that American personnel were involved in perpetrating it, but rather that it was covered up and no meaningful action was taken to stop it.
This reminds me of the time when John Yoo testified that it could be acceptable for executive agents to compel a terrorist suspect to speak by crushing his or her son's testicles if they didn't cooperate. As I've said before, the needs of the many don't outweigh the moral ramifications of the act against a wholly innocent third party. If the system can't or won't deal with the guilty parties, then hopefully the fathers of those children will be able to secure justice for their children using, *ahem*, "extrajudicial means."
America, you've fallen a long way. 100 years ago, American soldiers would have butchered those Iraqi men in righteous indignation, consequences be damned. Sad part is, if American soldiers had to explain to the world why they shot those men dead, even most of our worst critics would have conceded that it was morally justified for American soldiers to execute them for raping those kids in front of their mothers in order to terrorize them.
Can't get your link to work Mike.
Just give it a second. It'll show you a link in the top right hand corner after a few seconds of waiting through the ad.
Sometimes I feel so naive. I never would have imagined that something like this could be allowed to happen. Seriously. What an evil, evil world we live in.
This is one of the reasons I'm glad that I didn't join the military. If I saw something like this, I would have shot the Iraqi men on the spot without hesitation.