Posted on 03/05/08
Rethinking the ghastly photos of Abu Ghraib
They were the shots seen 'round the world. In photos taken in 2003 by the United States' 372nd Military Police Company at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, smiling soldiers posed next to naked, hooded detainees in states of humiliation and abuse - leashed, strapped to wires, piled into pyramids. Their smiles were chilling evidence that Americans were not squeaky-clean purveyors of democracy, that things over there had gone horribly wrong.
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