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Gayleg (October 6, 2008 06:07 PM ):
The people who took pictures of abuse of prisoners did not do so to expose abuse. People in the military were sending pictures like these to each other and also home--for entertainment purposes. They sent them to friends and family who gloated and laughed over the abuse and degradation of the other (prisoners).
The ordeal of Joe Darby, the MP who DID blow the whistle on Abu Ghraib, is instructive in many ways:
"Abu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal
"The US soldier who exposed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison found himself a marked man after his anonymity was blown in the most astonishing way by Donald Rumsfeld."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6930197.stm
