An American Dream

Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere


A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

(Chorus)
Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night


Working hard to get my fill,
everybody wants a thrill
Payin' anything to roll the dice,
just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on


The crappy music and lyrics of Journey, so small town American inspiring...

An American Dream by Norman Mailer, liberating the tortured psyche through violence and sex...

So how does a rural 17 year old gal working as a clerk at the local supermarket in West Virginia end up a year later exposing herself and pulling her panties over a stranger's head as he's tortured by a small town boy in a far away country that had nothing to do with 911, in fact a country that had never threatened the U.S.?

The above pics are from the interrogation room at Abu Ghraib, the requirements were sexual degradation and lots of pain, break down the detainees to confess their involvement with terrorism by claiming that they're gay and that everyone will be told that they performed homosexual acts here.

Most events will never be known, the worst pics and videos destroyed by the CIA to avoid prosecution.

But the questions remain and multiply, the longer we go without thorough investigations.
Perhaps like the main character in An American Dream, Bush and his ilk found liberation in the needless suffering of others but at what cost?
How many died in Iraq, how many lives were ruined?
Over 100 detainees that we know about died while in U.S. custody, many died while being tortured.
And what moral person could not feel compelled to find out everything that happened and why?