Yahoo! News - Iraq Prison Torture Was for Fun, Not Results-Paper
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers who abused prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not always preparing them for interrogation but were punishing them or simply having fun, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

Seven U.S. soldiers, four men and three women, are facing courts-martial for abuses at Abu Ghraib and one, Spc. Jeremy Sivits, pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Another of them, Spec. Charles Graner, was identified in statements by eight detainees and is facing more charges than the others.

Graner's attorney has said previously that Graner was following orders of military intelligence officers.

The abuse was first reported by Spc. Joseph Darby, who is quoted by the newspaper as saying he found out about it when he began checking into a shooting at the prison.

Darby said he asked Graner if he had any photographs of the cell where the shooting occurred. Graner gave him two compact disks loaded with digital photos.

On them, he found hundreds of photographs showing naked detainees being abused by U.S. soldiers.

Darby quoted Graner, a former Pennsylvania prison guard, as saying: "The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself."'

*sigh* Good clean fun. I'm ashamed and embarassed for my country. I'm starting to think the best thing we can do for the Iraqi people would be to get the hell out of their country. They might be better off even if the whole place implodes into chaos.