HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Republican Rep. Christopher Shays says the Abu Ghraib prison abuses weren’t torture but instead involved a ‘’sex ring” of National Guard troops.

”Now I’ve seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture,” Shays said at a debate Wednesday.

”It was outrageous, outrageous involvement of National Guard troops from (Maryland) who were involved in a sex ring and they took pictures of soldiers who were naked,” added Shays. ”And they did other things that were just outrageous. But it wasn’t torture.”

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