The abuse continues

More reports of detainee abuse. This one comes from Captain Ian Fishback, who describes abuses by soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division. These include: beatings of Iraqi prisoners, exposing them to extremes of hot and cold, more delightful stacking of prisoners in human pyramids, and depriving them of sleep at Camp Mercury near Falluja. It gets better:

Captain Fishback, speaking publicly on the matter for first time, said the investigators who have questioned him in the past 10 days seemed to be less interested in individuals he identified in his chain of command who allegedly committed the abuses.

"I'm convinced this is going in a direction that's not consistent with why we came forward," Captain Fishback said in a telephone interview from Fort Bragg, N.C., where he is going through Army Special Forces training. "We came forward because of the larger issue that prisoner abuse is systemic in the Army. I'm concerned this will take a new twist, and they'll try to scapegoat some of the younger soldiers. This is a leadership problem."

Fishback has sent a letter to Senators John Warner and John McCain, the two senior Republicans on the Armed Services Committee. Now will the Honorable Bill O'Reilly pipe down about how the ACLU aids and abetts terrorists?