The German Media Will Not Forget

Most Abu Ghraib abuses likely occured in just one day (via LGF).

WASHINGTON - Many of the worst abuses that have come to light from the Abu Ghraib prison happened on a single November day amid a flare of insurgent violence in Iraq, the deaths of many U.S. soldiers and a breakdown of the American guards' command structure.

Nov. 8 was the day U.S. guards took most of the infamous photographs: soldiers mugging in front of a pile of naked, hooded Iraqis, prisoners forced to perform or simulate sex acts, a hooded prisoner in a scarecrow-like pose with wires attached to him.

The actions of a few idiots on a single day will reveberate in the German media FOREVER as proof for the moral decline of Pres. Bush, of the US army, of "Amerika".

Nick Berg will long be forgotten - his beheading already now is rarely mentioned in the German media - and we will still read and read and read about the "new shocking pictures from Abu Ghraib" (Deutsche Welle).

The German media never forget about human right abuses in prisons. Unless, of course, they happened in Saddams's Iraq or in China or in the former communist East Germany or in Russia or in Arab countries or in Cuba or in France... etc....etc...etc...etc...

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[Joe]

Here is a different view of one of those leftist organizations some here are both members of and support.

….Yes, U.S. troops abused and humiliated prisoners. But let's get real. There is no moral equivalence, as Amnesty seems to believe, between the United States and Britain, and the terrorists who - do not let us forget - brought this war on themselves on 9/11. And U.S. officials not only have apologized for the abuses, they're also prosecuting those responsible.
This kind of excess by Amnesty International is unfortunate because elsewhere in its 339-page report the group performs the kind of human-rights monitoring for which it is justifiably highly regarded. But its hysterical anti-U.S. preface ensures that those in charge of the war on terror won't read farther. The statement's only value is to serve as a reminder on this Memorial Day weekend of how knee-jerk disdain for America has warped so many international institutions

For those of you who might wish to read the rest of the article it is most interesting in the comparisons it makes. Here is the link. I might add most Americans will not get past the first page either.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_2922967,00.html