US Army soldier Jonathan Millantz (left) and Lt. Phil Blanchard (right) smile as an Iraqi detainee is forced to hold up a large wooden board. Millantz claims the detainee held the board for 45 minutes until his wrists eventually broke from the strain. (Approx 2003) [1170×776]
by I_may_have_weed
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His *wrists broke*? That seems like total bullshit. Surely his muscles would have simply failed and his arms would have dropped.
USA and Isreal are the real terrorists.
Sick behavior
I hope US wont invade Venezuela. I dont want to see these kind of things happen again.
That’s some serious grit—45 minutes? Respect to that soldier.
People be saying thank you for your service to veterans and this is the service they were doing. The thing USA gets away with is incredible
Millantz is a fucking liar.
My god, they’re smiling like they’re posing in front of the castle at Disneyland. What is wrong with humans?
American sadism.
An interesting [article](https://revealnews.org/article/the-devastating-story-behind-one-image-of-detainee-abuse/) about Jonathan Millantz and the picture in question. Millantz was a combat medic who was deployed in Iraq. He kept photos of prison torture and other atrocities (including this one) and was guilt ridden about his service. He joined the Iraq Veterans Against The War group in 04. He passed away after battling with addiction.
The other guy in the picture is still with the army and feigned ignorance when asked about the picture.
The banality of evil.
[https://justseeds.org/graphic/jonathan-millantz-memorial/](https://justseeds.org/graphic/jonathan-millantz-memorial/) – is that the same guy?
Ain’t war hell?
Bush authorized torture, and even changed the legal definition from “torture” to “advanced interrogation”. It’s beyond disgusting how Bush/Cheney were allowed to be some of the biggest war criminals AND war profiteers in modern history. And in the Abu Ghraib scandal, not one single commissioned officer went to jail, only junior enlisted did. Proof that the powerful and connected are never held accountable, and justice is just a thing for the “peasantry”.
Remind me again why people don’t protest musical artists who perform in the US but do protest musical artists who perform in other questionable countries?
Why people post torture pictures? I don’t feel it’s very appropriate.
Remeber these guys are alive and well, cruising around and being THANKED for the things they did.
But a bunch of folks were telling me the other day that the Stanford Prison Experiment was total BS🤔
Hearts and minds …….and wrists
Seems like the method(s) they used to “force” him would be the defining crime here. If they held a gun to his head or tortured him for example…
Also I don’t see how his wrists actually broke.
Disgusting
Yesterday, in a colossal case of irony, John Yoo, who wrote the Bush 2 era DOJ memo justifying “enhanced interrogation”, condemned Hegseth’s no quarter order.
You couldn’t make this shit up – you’d get laughed outta the room