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To all of you conscience-free readers who are worried that these photos make Americans look "bad," I say it would take a Hieronymus Bosch to make us look as bad as we actually are. After all, we are a people who knew with absolute certainty that the Bush Administration was doing all this and worse -- and still 66% of the electorate either didn't care enough to go to the polls in 2004 or actually rewarded this sadistic evil with a vote of approval.
How many months have passed by since the first photos were released? How many days have come and gone without reports of new horrors? Is there anyone in America who doesn't know that right now, as I write this message, "doctors" are ramming tubes up detainees' noses in Guantanamo? Or that dozens of these same detainees are in such utter despair that they only want the freedom to die?
I have to wonder how you can continue to whine about your precious "image" abroad, how you can look at yourself in the mirror, how you can even think of being in the same room as your children, when you have done NOTHING to stop your government from committing these crimes -- and committing them in YOUR name.
