That's Seymour Hersh talking about the torture at Abu Ghraib. Hersh, who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and now reports for The New Yorker, gave a preview of what we can expect to hear about before long.
"Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok. Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men. …
"The women were passing messages saying, 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened.' Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has."
Hersh says that, "What we had was a series of massive crimes. … What happened are war crimes. … We have to stop looking at it as an academic debate about the Geneva Conventions."
There is streaming video of Hersh's speech here. The section quoted above begins at about 1:30. His whole speech is worth listening to if you have the time. It begins at 1:07.
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