Lawmaker Likens Abu Ghraib to Porn
Republican Rep. Christopher Shays, who is in a tough reelection fight, said in Hartford that the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq were more about pornography than torture.
“It was a National Guard unit run amok,” Shays said in an interview with the Associated Press. “It was torture because sex abuse is torture. It was gross and despicable.... This is more about pornography than torture.”
Shays sought to defuse controversy over his previous comments suggesting the Abu Ghraib abuses weren’t torture but instead involved a sex ring of troops.
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