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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Why we're publishing the new Abu Ghraib photos

America -- and the world -- has the right to know what was done in our name.

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  • Thursday, February 16, 2006 04:32 AM

    Not one of these photos details torture...

    If this is the best you got, then you got nothing! I can go on the internet and in like two minutes find you videos of real torture - heads cut off, people shot, people stabbed - but this? This is mostly nudity - degredation - but torture? With no scars? No blood? No bruises? No wonder no one but Salon cares about this: there is no there, there... (That being said, why are we rounding up Iraqis in the first place? I'm completely against this invasion, and wish all the soldiers were home, but as others have stated: if you're too cowardly to run offensive cartoons, running these non-torture photos and calling them torture - because we know that for Muslims, nudity is almost worse than a hot poker up the ass, then one does have to wonder whose side you're really on...)

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