From the NYT: Torture routine in Iraq, say members of the 82nd Airborne.

Three former members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence on the insurgency and to amuse themselves.
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“We would give them blows to the head, chest, legs and stomach, and pull them down, kick dirt on them,” one sergeant told Human Rights Watch researchers during one of four interviews in July and August. “This happened every day.”
The sergeant continued: “Some days we would just get bored, so we would have everyone sit in a corner and then make them get in a pyramid. This was before Abu Ghraib but just like it. We did it for amusement.”
He said he had acted under orders from military intelligence personnel to soften up detainees, whom the unit called persons under control, or PUC’s, to make them more cooperative during formal interviews.

One of these guys spent 17 months (!) trying to get his superior officers to take action, and when nothing happened he spoke to Human Rights Watch. Their report is here.
I hate what my country has become.