{"id":1242,"date":"2011-12-22T02:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T02:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/22\/tortures-other-victims-us-soldiers-truthout\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:26","slug":"tortures-other-victims-us-soldiers-truthout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/22\/tortures-other-victims-us-soldiers-truthout\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture&#8217;s Other Victims: US Soldiers | Truthout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/858434582\/torture-s-other-victims-us-soldiers-truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/858434582\/torture-s-other-victims-us-soldiers-truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/QSImuDBgsHiwsPWWi-lTszl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Joshua Phillips is the author of &ldquo;None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture,&rdquo; a harrowing book about the torture of prisoners in Iraq and the deep psychological scars it left on the members of one battalion who dispensed pain to their victims.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/tortures-other-victims\/1322783647#.TvKOGSGAyCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via truth-out.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesJoshua Phillips is the author of &ldquo;None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture,&rdquo; a harrowing book about the torture of prisoners in Iraq and the deep psychological scars it left on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/22\/tortures-other-victims-us-soldiers-truthout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1441,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/09\/15\/another-tragic-anniversary-8-years-since-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":1242,"position":0},"title":"Another Tragic Anniversary: 8 Years Since US Soldier Killed Herself After Refusing to Take Part in Torture | The Nation","author":"aslam","date":"September 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesSpc. 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