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Thos of you who are accusing Salon of hypocrisy for publishing the Abu Ghraib photos and not publishing the Mohammad cartoons are comparing apples with oranges.
The Abu Ghraib photos depict real toture and suffering at the hands of U.S. personnel.
The Muhammad cartoons are gratuitously offensive cartoons insulting an entire religion. Why disseminate them? Their original intent was not a demonstration of "freedom of speech", it was deliberately insulting, inflammatory, and designed to provide fodder for Muslim extremists. And provide fodder, they did...
The Abu Ghraib photos are a national shame. Those horrible acts were committed in our name. These photos NEED to be published so that people realize and remember that Americans can never again engage in these shameful practices, lest we lose our soul as a people. The rest of the world needs to know that most Americans are revolted by torture and other mistreatments, lest we, as a people, be confused with the sadists and lunatics who ordered, aided and abetted, and committed those gross abuses.
