The importance of the Abu Ghraib photos is that they show, in so many

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

ways, that the Bush administration can't be trusted.

Most importantly to the American people, they show that shrubco can't be trusted when they say "everything's going OK", because we were and would have been continuing to hear that if these were never released. (Of course most of us knew that already.) This is why we NEED THE REMAINING PHOTOS/VIDEO TO BE RELEASED, no matter how horrible--because there can be no trust of the administration's statements about what they contain, what was done. Will they (the American voter) get the message by November?

To the world (which also already pretty much knew) they show that shrubco can't be trusted into their countries, regardless of the goals of democracy building or whatever. Can't be trusted not to rape their daughters and sons, or ride their grandmother around like a donkey.

[the Kelly Gang]

1. basicaly all they care about is the exposure not the acts themselves

[Skittles]

2. yup, they care about the GOP more than they care about America

it's OBSCENE.

[Ardee]

3. We need an opposition party

Rumsfeldt's delicate treatment by Congress, despite the knowledge that they had these photos since January, shows plainly that thereis little hope that there will be an outcry on a national level about anything Bush......

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.guard09may09,0,2180279.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

WIESBADEN, Germany - The two military intelligence soldiers, assigned interrogation duties at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, were young, relatively new to the Army and had only one day of training on how to pry information from high-value prisoners.

But almost immediately on their arrival in Iraq, say the two members of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, they recognized that what was happening around them was wrong, morally and legally.

They said in interviews Friday and yesterday that the abuses were not caused by a handful of rogue soldiers poorly supervised and lacking morals but resulted from failures that went beyond the low-ranking military police charged with abuse.

The beatings, the two soldiers said, were meted out with the full knowledge of intelligence interrogators, who let military police know which prisoners were cooperating with them and which were not.

"I was told, 'Don't worry about it - they probably deserved it,'" one of the soldiers said in an interview, referring to complaints he made while trying to persuade the Army to investigate. "I was appalled."