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To: frankw1900 who wrote (138472)	6/30/2004 10:39:07 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I have no desire to dissect your happy talk litany in conservative "deconstruction" style, but I will point out one bit that struck me. The US has given itself a number of tactical "disasters" such as Abu Ghraib - which was a moral disgrace the US forces discovered themselves and moved to correct - but somehow things appear to be better in Iraq than a year and a half ago and better than six months ago. Um. It's true that the Taguba report, along with the IRC report, long predate the leaked photos that precipitated all the attention. It's very, very far from clear that anything would have been done about the situation without the leaked photos, since months had passed without anything happening. Plus, the initial reaction was a " few bad apples" PR campaign. Of course, the "few bad apples" PR campaign was a little more palatable than the local "photos should have been suppressed ( for the sake of legal fairness, of course)" line.

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