Night Persuasive Speech

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OVER THE coming days, the guards on Graner’s night shift made me their human sacrifice to the American frustration in Iraq--and perhaps also their frustration with the Global War on Terror.
I remained naked in a cold and damp cell in the winter; often lifted onto my toes, with his handcuffs laced through the jail bars above their highest horizontal crosspiece. Then I was left there, hanging, “high cuffed” overnight. I was regularly deprived of food or water. Once that went on for five days. During interrogations, I also was hung naked from a high hook by the handcuffs, and left for hours in a cold room while being regularly drenched with ice-water. During these interrogations, insane questions became normal—“How many bolts are on a crane?” was a particularly memorable one. The punishment for a “wrong” answer was a beating: sometimes with open hands or fists, other …show more content…
I began living for the daytime. One night, after having spent much of the evening with my hands thrust through the bars in a “high cuff,” the wounds on my injured wrists from the handcuffs had bled through their dressings. I called out, and Graner said, “Put your hand farther out through the cell and I’ll fix it.” He pulled off the bandage so forcefully it ripped away flesh…he started laughing.
Other times, still naked, the other inmates and I would be brought out into the cell block’s hallway and be beaten and humiliated in front of the other prisoners. They also made up nicknames for everyone. Colin Powell. Gilligan. Dracula. Wolf Man. The Claw. The guards were always giving people nicknames.
They must have hated the real Colin Powell a lot, because they spoke of him very disparagingly—in very hard and gutter ways. Of course, come to think of it, the man they called Colin Powell that did have a certain resemblance to the real Colin Powell. Even the metal eyeglasses were

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