Mock Executions

Is this what we have become??? This is military policy in Iraq?!?

I suppose since in the United States we have mock elections, mock democracy, a mock representative government, we might as well have mock executions and mock torture. Oh wait, we have real torture don't we? Well, something has to be real, right?

Mock Executions of Iraqi Detainees Cited by Army

A U.S. Army captain forced an Iraqi detainee to dig his own grave and then ordered troops to pretend to shoot the detainee in one of several mock executions described in investigative documents released Tuesday by the Army.

[The captain] drove the blindfolded Iraqi, a suspect in a roadside
bombing against American troops two days earlier, into the desert near Ramadi, ... handed him a shovel and told him to dig his own grave, soldiers under his command testified during an investigation. A sergeant said he fired a round over the Iraqi's head on the captain's orders.

Afterward, the prisoner was released.

I suppose at that time he went back home to his pretend wife, mock family, ate a fake dinner, and then later the next day he joined the illusory resistance against what is becoming increasingly indisputable: an inhumane occupation by U.S. forces.