A picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Thirty-five years ago, images of the massacre of civilians in the village of My Lai helped to turn the American people against the war in Vietnam.

This April, the Pentagon got upset at some of the “free press” for publishing photos of caskets of dead American soldiers, fearing that it would weaken the already tepid public support for the war in Iraq. Those photos, though, quickly became irrelevant, with the release of images of ghastly abuse and torture against Iraqi inmates in the U.S.-run prison at Abu Ghraib.

Full: http://sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/12_torture.html

...jeez....it's quiet around this one.....

People are jaded, because someone posted photos of Iraqi women being raped and they turned out to be from a porn site. Ever since, anti-libs on the site have cashed in the "I told you so" card whenever someone tries to discuss the real prison abuses. They "won," if this thread is any indication.

This is one of those forum sideshows where a few people are so bent on "winning," they compromise their sense of honor and scruples when it comes to their chosen methodology. It's similar to what some people criticize about US interventionist policies (past and present), but the baiters try to crush people's spirit with a steady onslaught of malice instead of torture, rape, and/or genocide.