'𝘈𝘣𝘶 𝘎𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘣' Cargo Pants

    In 2004 photographs taken at Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq were obtained & published by American & international media, ultimately sparking a firestorm of condemnation & controversy. The photographs depicted a slew of physical & psychological tortures committed by American soldiers against detainees. The acts shown in the photos included, but were not limited to— sexual humiliation, torture involving the use of animals, and the death of one man, Manadel al-  Jamadi — all in the name of combating terrorism abroad. While the tortures at Abu Ghraib were publicly condemned by the U.S. Government, the hypocrisy of their condemnation would be revealed a few years later with the releasing of the "Torture Memos," a document that included instructions on conducting "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as water boarding (a practice that simulates the physical effects of drowning). Allegations of widespread & normalized torture within the US military culture have since been continuously corroborated by internal leaks to the media as well as from highly publicized incidents from Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay & the global network of CIA blacksites including one notable incident in which the CIA mistook a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, for an individual on a terrorist watch list, kidnapping the German man while he was on holiday, flying him to various countries, subjecting him to an array of horrific abuses and, once they eventually realized their mistake, flew him back to near where they'd discovered him and simply released him without any possessions.

     Eventually, the Abu Ghraib prison was discontinued, but if you're thinking it was because after the torture allegations came to light, powerful people stepped in to make the situation right and the power of 'good' prevailed over a cruel injustice — no — that is not what happened. The prison was attacked by mortar fire because it wasn't in a secured 'green zone,' it was run in a detested area of a war zone. 36 people were killed in the strike. The Red Cross conducted an investigation & found that most detainees at the prison were civilians with zero connections to armed groups or terrorist networks, simply men who had been picked up in raids & subjected to just one of the countless atrocities that followed in the wake of the 'Forever Wars.' While the Iraq & Afghanistan wars have officially come to an end, military operations in the region have not, with night raids on unsuspecting targets continuing at a near daily pace according to journalist & US Army veteran Seth Harp. In fact, the American military is conducting 'operations' globally all the time and, as the recent detailing of a special forces operation into North Korea to plant surveillance equipment preceding President Trump's talks with Kim Jong Un in 2018 wherein a special forces team took mini submarines to a North Korean beach head only to draw the attention of local fishermen who came to investigate the disturbance in the water, fired upon by the soldiers, killed and their bodies sent to the seafloor so as to never be located, these operations don't always go as planned. I won't waste anymore of your time by simply listing one war crime after another, even though I could, like the recent killing of 12 individuals in a speedboat off the Venezuelan coast who the US Government claimed were drug traffickers without proof nor an explanation as to why such a crime is punishable by death, nor offering an explanation as to why the US has the jurisdiction and legal powers to murder suspected criminals on a seperate continent, but I'm sure they know exactly what they're doing. I'm sure whoever is in charge has the whole situation under ccontrol. I'm positively certain.

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      Authentic NATO camouflage combat pants with an array of features, including those from the original design, as well as those added in the reworking stages. Such features include: the military style drawstrings & straps to tighten the waist & ankles, dual brown canvas cargo pockets on the right leg, a single camo cargo pocket on the left, patches added throughout with a higher density of patches located on the left leg beneath a layer of hand-sewn sashiko style stitchwork, front & back.

Size: Waist (adjustable): 27" - 31" / Length: 32"