Letters to the Editor
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Fine piece
It's good to see Andrew O'Hehir treating Abu Ghraib as he does - with horror, disgust and bewilderment - when elsewhere in America it has pretty much dropped out of the national conversation. The seven bad apples have been identified and punished, so end of story, move on.
Well that should NOT be the end of the story. There is a systemic malaise at work here that needs to be exposed; from the soldiers themselves who seem to take no personal responsibility for what they did, to the shadowy CIA operatives and others who abused, tortured and murdered their captives in the name of America, and those at the top like Bush and Cheney who willed it all to happen.
Those who think America is better than this, like Errol Morris and Andrew O'Hehir, do us all a service by trying to stop this outrage dropping out of sight in the face of public discomfort and boredom.