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but repetition can be useful.
In the case of Abu Ghraib, the problem of torture was not that it was being done (and denied). It was that there were pictures of it circulating publicly.
It was the pictures -- a kind of porn -- that got Bush and Cheney and Rummy and the Pentagon all in a lather and a froth, not what was being done to the captives.
And the first person tried and punished as I recall was either the person who took the pictures or the person who made and distributed the discs on which they were found.
So there is a kind of consistency, isn't there? As long as there are no publicly available pictures and video of it, anything goes?
