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• Friday, February 17, 2006 10:04 AM

  Their crime is your crime

  I am saddened and disgusted by your site's choice to publish more painful, horrifying photographs of the Iraq prison tortures. You did it for publicity, you did it for shock value, you did it for the buck. You try and stand on some kind of synthetic moral ground saying you did it because we all just need to see so much more pain and suffering because it's going to what, make us better people? You say it was only given three weeks of coverage. Were you IN this country at the time?? It was a huge, media (including the internet) extravaganza and people followed the trials of those convicted for the crimes for months.

  I think you are a pathetic excuse for an online magazine and you should hold yourself completely responsible for stirring up the pot again. Most of us were shocked and mortified by the photographs. You stand on some kind of "we're doing the best thing" pedistal while the Iraqi's and the Americans and the world have to re-live the pain of those photographs but now in an even more graphic manner. I hope that if innocent people lose lives because you had to take your right to publish regardless of the outcome, that the people who made this decision feel that outcome personally. Perhaps only then you will have a thought about caring more about your fellow human beings that the bucks in your pocket. It's called responsibility.

  Why not change your name to the National Enquirer?

  —Kyrie Eleison
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