The magazine is called "Vanity" Fair. Please...get over it. Please, no more dumb articles about dumb magazines spewing dumb pop culture issues. You can't have it both ways Salon. This can't be both a smart political site and also concern yourself with vapid issues like the ones in this article. Spin this kind of crap off to another site and let it stand on it's own. I liken this junk to having a subscription to cable television, then having to support by proxy all the religious cannels like the 700 club. The vice president shoot someone, Paul Hacket drops out of the Ohio senate race, and your cover articles are nudes in Vanity Fair, and what stuff to buy on Valentines day. I understand you are in a 24 hour cycle, but it has been that long since Chenney smoked that lawyer. What do you take your readership for? A bunch of consumerist pop culture followers? You are mistaken. I will not support this with my dollars come time to renew if these trends continue.

p.s. I never received one issue of Wired with my subscription. Has anyone else? It didn't affect my decision to subscribe (I didn't even know it was a perk until after I signed up), but I thought nice...I'd like to get Wired in the mailbox. Never one issue. I went through the proper channels to correct this. Nothing. No response. Why offer something then not deliver? I would have rather you didn't offer in the first place.

In the past I had helped to deliver donated foods to the poor people of the Appalachian hollers. They are America's poorest people and their plight and the plight of the land is a black spot on America's conscience. I would like to see a day in which we are not always on a defensive when it comes to "saving" or "conserving" America's green, America's nature. Why aren't we putting those who would strip the top of a mountain on the defensive. They are just a corporation with some employees. I say reclaim the land and the land their corporate offices are on. Start to take back, reclaim, undo. Make them spend all their time trying to defend their land against our encroachment. Everyone always talks of saving a species, or a plot of land, or cleaning up after these destroyers and polluters. Why wait until the damage is done? Why so defensive? Put them on defense.

Thank you very much for this well written article.

Please consider creating a special mini site that serves the entire batch of media. It is necessary to disseminate this information on the internet as quickly as possible. Some would criticize the opening of old wounds here, but it is necessary for the American public to realize that they have been lied to about the extent of the abuse and also the higher officials' roles in all of this. The more you show the better. I have seen the Australian dateline report. It says it has received images via the ACLU's successful freedom of information act request. If all the U.S. media sources have these, why are they not printing them?

Lt. Cally was convicted, but pardoned by Nixon before doing any time. Interestingly enough, Colin Powell was in charge of the military's unsuccessful whitewash/cover up of the incident. The government tried to suppress all information and images of My Lai at the time, and if it wasn't for the heroic efforts of Ron Ridenhour to get the story out, we wouldn't even know about it.

Pentagon papers, My Lai, Deep Throat, Abu Graib...you don't need to explain to us why you are publishing, you will always be doing the right thing when bringing any important information to the light of public scrutiny...even when it is hurtful to our national pride.

Was Salon sitting on this story/images? Did you decide to publish because the Australian Dateline show already broke this story wide? If so, why?

"...moist pink flesh under a showerhead, soaping up, rinsing..." Aw cut it out Garrison. You are creeping me out. Just because you get your panties in a bunch when a jar head enters the room, doesn't mean the rest of us should follow your doe eyed passive acquiescence to a false authority. Military service doesn't guarantee any particular quality in a man. Lt. Cally served. So did Lee Harvey Oswald. Colin Powell orchestrated the failed attempted cover up and white wash of the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam. Is this the "appropriate" and "precise" of which you speak?

I feel for you brother. You yearn for the days past when it was easy not to shoulder the burden of personal involvement in the nation's foreign policies. When we could go about our lives with the comfort of knowing Ike, or someone of his ilk was watching over us. Dad, with an M16. Sadly this doesn't work anymore. I would suggest instead it is our duty to regard the "military" as something else entirely. Always follow the word with "industrial complex" and you will understand the need for more skeptical attitude for the military and one of it's products, it's men.

The smarmies is an award given to the author of the most smarmy article. The author must assume that the readership agrees with his opinions without reservation. First we nominate the author. Then the readership writes a lot of letters to the editor in response to the smarmiest article. The result is the author, not being paid by the publisher to write the next article...and of course his or her teary acceptance speech.

I nominate...drum roll please...