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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (42873)	5/8/2004 7:38:36 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793738

Again, and for purely self-serving reasons, Iraqis have a vested interest in applying such an example if they seek to prevent further abuse by the Americans or, more significantly, by a future Iraqi regime. At last, a recipe for lemonade. This can be used as a case study in democratic institutions for the education of Iraqis.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (42873)	5/8/2004 1:21:32 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793738

BRAVO Michael Young...! Sometimes it takes someone from the outside (in this case Lebannon) to see things more clearly than we can when the situation is so fresh and raw. He presents several things for us to think about. Thanks for posting this article, bbb. If nothing else, this [[American media driven story]] underlines that the US has effective institutional mechanisms for reversing its own wrongdoing. >>>>>>>>>However, it was a 53-page report by Major General Antonio Taguba completed last February that provided the most devastating account of delinquency. Hersh's expose was to a considerable extent built around a leaked version of Taguba's report, which found a pattern of "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" at Abu Ghraib.<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>Moreover, the US never enjoyed Hussein's magic. When he was murdering tens of thousands of innocents in his vast archipelago of prisons, particularly Abu Ghraib, this coincided with a time when many in the Middle East, who knew of his abuses, held him up as a champion. >>>>>>>>>The Egyptian playwright Ali Salem told me recently that the true indignity of the Iraq war was that it was not Arabs who had overthrown Saddam Hussein. He was right. As Arabs examine the photographs from Abu Ghraib and read about American misconduct there, they might reflect less on what this says about the US, which usually ponders its worst excesses, than what it says about their own systems, where such images could only have been glimpsed over the carcass of an overthrown regime. dailystar.com.lb.