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Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War Hardcover – May 11, 2007

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In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has never been told. Tara McKelvey — the first U.S.journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib — traveled to the Middle East and across the United States to seek out victims and perpetrators. McKelvey tells how soldiers, acting in an atmosphere that encouraged abuse and sadism, were unleashed on a prison population of which the vast majority, according to army documents, were innocent civilians. Drawing upon critical sources, she discloses a series of explosive revelations: An exclusive jailhouse interview with Lynndie England connects the Abu Ghraib pictures to lewd vacation photos taken by England's boyfriend Charles Graner; formerly undisclosed videotapes show soldiers "Robotripping" on cocktails of over-the-counter drugs while pretending to stab detainees; new material sheds light on accusations against an American suspected of raping an Iraqi child; and first-hand accounts suggest the use of high-voltage devises, sexual humiliation and pharmaceutical drugs on Iraqi prisoners. She also provides an inside look at Justice Department theories of presidential power to show how the many abuses were licensed by the government.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2007
Tara McKelvey's account of the abuses at Agu Ghraib, in particular the abuses visited upon women prisoners, fleshes out the accounts we've read in newspapers of this scandal, and gives us personal testimony by some of the women who've been raped, as well as the first interview with Lyndie England, the woman holding the leash in one of the photographs that became infamous. That so many women who were raped and tortured at Abu Ghraib were afraid to come forward because their own families might have killed them if they'd known they were raped is among the many horrors this book reveals. That we have now become a nation whose official policy is to torture is a shame we ought all to confront, and change, and this book is an important document that every American should read.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2013
Monstering by Tara McKelvey is a fast-paced, in-depth look at the dificult subject of torture written in the highest journalistic style.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2017
Nothing like some nice, light reading.
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2007
. . .when we elect wanna-be dictators like George Bush and Dick Cheney.

This expose simply proves Republicans hate American ideals of compassion, fairness and humanity. They claim to be the party of "Jesus", but then they turn around and torture people in order to gain "intelligence". They claim to be the party of "freedom" but have no problem stepping over our rights. Neo-Cons have no respect for balance of power; rather, they desire a dictatorial, patriarchal daddy-president.

"WWJD?": not elect another radical right-wing Republican.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2010
Private Lynndie England reached the covers of many American newspapers and was vilified as a monster and some kind of evil bitch.

She was in a sense taking the blame for mistakes of Bush and the Neoconservatives.

England according to this book before she joined the Army she worked in a chicken processing plant where there were to many chickens to kill so they would have to throw them under the belt or something Yes she worked a night job in a chicken-processing factory Pilgrims Pride.

This women suffered from some form of mental illness she grew up in a trailer park tried to do something better so she joins the Army.

This book had a good premise I felt it did little in the way of being critical of the power structure. And I felt it was a bit condecenting todars the lower class working poor.

Some good fact like 50% of the Iraqi interpreters that were hired would have flunked a proficiency test.

Well England has a book anyway TORTURED: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs that Shocked the World
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2007
Just a complete work of rubbish and Republican bashing. It kills me how the American public cries over the treatment and conditions of our war prisoners. In Gitmo most live better then they ever did as free men. Let me also tell you the torture that people are up in arms about is nothing (we do not pull finger nails out) and most procedures were standard methods (Like sleep deprivation, food control, climate control all of which are monitored and controlled. But now the enemy knows or methods of interrogation and can learn to wait out the discomfort.... Thanks for all the help concerned public!). Well I can only pray if I am captured by these savages that this is the extent of my "torture" at least I will be alive with all my body parts and do not have to worry about my family viewing my death over and over again via the internet. All this attention given to this matter has additional blowback effects. It weakens are resolve to keep and hold prisoners that are proven bad guys. From personal experience in Afghanistan we captured a bad guy (terrorist) in a raid with a weapon engaging U.S. troops. The Individual was captured alive and turned into the system for detainment. Six months later my element was ambushed again, we killed the insurgents and identified within the ambush party one of the insurgents as the same man we captured 6 months earlier but was released. Why did this happen? Because of the strain the American public put on the political system on how the military does business. I know all you liberals with your vast military background and military service know much better how business needs to conducted. So as a current soldier thanks for the help! Secondly the more the public makes of this nonsense the more these radicals believe it is o.k. to cut off American heads, because... yes I am going to say it... humiliated and scared our prisoners. So now it makes it just fine for them to continue their savagery. So thanks again! I have to stop this rant because it is killing me. Let me end this with, if you really want to support the troops (and your country) don't put the yellow ribbon magnet on your car.......... ENLIST!
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