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We wouldn't want to inflame anti-American sentiment

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  • Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:28 AM

    rrheard

    "...broadcasting "unedited rape and sodomy of women and children" on public television where children might view it."

    This is not what the ACLU has requested. They have requested that photographs be released (many of them redacted), not audio/video of the acts you describe above, which were purportedly in video from Abu Ghraib. We don't know what exactly is in the photographs in question.

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