Abu Ghraib photos

You Betcha I'm a Proud Army Mom: More Photos from Abu Ghraib and BLACKFIVE: New Abu Ghraib Photos! made me write this post. I know the way the media are displaying those pics from Abu Ghraib is in a way that is disgusting. And I know what I am talking about. Working at the coffee shop I work at I have tv screens above my head repeating the same news every 15 minutes, by 7:30 nothing sounds like news anymore, but just stuff that gets repeated over and over again. And then seeing those pictures over and over again... it won't make any difference. If I see them once to know what has happened, ok, though I think I don't need to see them. I don't thing that it is right what has happened there, and nothing is going to change my mind about it, but that does not make it right the way the media are using them. Just because someone is doing something wrong does not mean everyone is supposed to do so too.

I know there were and are people in Abu Ghraib doing great things, as BLACKFIVE reminds us. In any profession you will find people to admire and those that you can't relate to, those who do things the way you would do them and others who act differently. I mean, I am not excusing the actions of those soldiers who tortured detainees, as I think there is no situation that justifies torture, but neither do I excuse the way the media are playing with us, as they are not displaying the complete truth either.

Also linked to Mudville Gazette

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