Review of Taxi to the Dark Side

Documentary

This is a documentary that requires a strong stomach and a sense of outrage and shame.
Shame that the tortures in Bogram Air Force Base, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are committed by our own soldiers and marines. The film does not spare the upper echelons of our government, right up to the White House for not only condoning the horrors perpetrated on Afghanis and Iraqis on both combattants and non-combattants. Over 90% of prisoners were accused by rival tribes, actually using our Armed Forces to exact revenge or punishment on possibly innocent. The film describes the torture of an innocent taxi driver in a small town in Afghanistan who without his knowledge transported 3 suspected Taliban. He was stopped at a checkpoint, arrested, confined to Bogram where he was subjected to sleep deprivation and beatings so severe that his leg bones were pulpified and would have to be amputated had he lived.

What is shocking are the displays of smug satisfaction of this policy by denial by both our President and Vice President.

Posted on 02/13/08 by: Texgotham 10:14 AM