Standard Operating Procedure Page #5

Synopsis: Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Director(s): Errol Morris
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
2008
116 min
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cattle trucks, and just like cattle.

I mean, you come to the back door,

I mean, you hear a bang on the door

you know, bang, bang, bang, here

come the deuce and a half truck

full of scared

individuals coming to jail.

Were like,

"They come get me in middle of night.

"Mister, Mister, what, am I in trouble?

What I do? I'm not terrorist."

You know, they were like taxicab

drivers and welders and, like, bakers,

and they're at Abu Ghraib.

We had kids.

If we can't get the insurgent

leader, we took their kid.

"Akbar, I have your son.

Your son is in jail.

"Turn yourself in and

we'll let your son go."

I call that kidnapping.

It got filled up so fast

that we couldn't take

the children out anymore

and they had to stay

in their cells.

You feel bad for

them holding a child

for no reason just 'cause

of who your father was.

You can only make their stay a

little bit acceptable, I guess.

You give them all

the candy from the MREs

to make their time

go by better, I guess.

But there's only so much you

can do or so much you could feel.

HARMAN:
"The lights

went out in the prison

"so here we are

in the dark.

"I hear, 'Missus! Missus!'

I go downstairs and flash my light

"on a 16-year-old sitting

down smacking ants.

"Now these ants are Iraqi ants.

Large.

"So large they could carry the family

dog while giving you the finger.

"All the ants in the prison

came to this one boy's cell

"and decided

to take over.

"All I could do was spray Lysol.

The ants laughed at me and kept going.

"So here we were in the dark

with one small flashlight

"beating the ants

with our shoes.

"So that was the start of my shift.

"They've been stripping

the f***ed-up prisoners

"and handcuffing

them to the bars.

"I get to laugh at them

and throw corn at them.

"I kind of feel bad

for these guys

"even if they are accused

of killing U.S. soldiers.

"We degrade them but we don't

hit them, and that's a plus.

"They sleep one hour, stay up

for one hour then sleep one hour.

"This goes on for 72 hours

while we f*** with them.

"Most have been so scared

they piss on themselves.

It's sad.

"Pictures were taken,

you have to see them.

"A sandbag was put over their heads

while it was soaked in hot sauce.

"Okay, that's bad,

but these guys have info.

"We were trying to get them to talk.

That's all."

TIM DUGAN:
The big word that always

comes up for me is "surreal".

Everything that you saw,

everything that was going on.

A bunch of unprofessional schmucks

that didn't know their damn job.

All thrown together, mixed

up with a big-ass stick

and what you get out of it is the sh*t

you see on the news from Abu Ghraib.

It's disgusting.

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