The media are largely ignoring a speech to the ACLU given by Seymour Hersh, the investigative reporter who broke the story about abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison. It's a frightening account he gives about women and young boys being raped and sodomized in Iraqi prisons. Meanwhile, the president still wants us to believe this is just a few bad apples.

It turns your stomach as you read about what are some of the worst stories yet to come out of this mess. That this was done in the name of the United States is disgraceful.

Complete transcript and video of the speech is available here.

Excerpt:

Some of the worst things that happened that you don’t know about. OK? Videos. There are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at [Abu Ghraib], which is about 30 miles from Baghdad — 30 kilometers, maybe, just 20 miles, I'm not sure whether it's — anyway. The women were passing messages out saying please come and kill me because of what’s happened. And basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children, in cases that have been [video] recorded, the boys were sodomized, with the cameras rolling, and the worst above all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. That your government has, and they’re in total terror it’s going to come out. It’s impossible to say to yourself, how did we get there, who are we, who are these people that sent us there.