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I understand that Walter Shapiro is ashamed about his country that allows an Abu Ghraib to exist. Yet, the rest of the world is not ashamed, but angry. Abu Ghraib is not a place in the US, it's halfway around the world in a country where the US had no business in the first place. In the rest of the world, we're not interested nor are we impressed by American shame, and certainly I don't see it as a valid excuse not to get the full truth out.
In other words, shame or not, all of the material on that DVD and the full report should be made available to the public by Salon.com. After years of human rights violations and holding the rest of the world hostage in a so-called "war on terror," that is the least we may expect from any US publication.
Okke Ornstein
