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To: Brumar89 who wrote (435144)	11/16/2008 11:58:39 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573438

"My Lai's" is mostly what the press has been interested in finding in Iraq. They did it w/ Abu Ghraib. Tried to do it with the Marines in Haditha. This is absolutely true. They all want to be Seymour Hersh (who, it seems to me, realized quickly there wasn't going to be anything quite so juicy and bailed early on Iraq). Abu Ghraib should have been a non-event. To some extent, the WH helped MAKE it event by acting as though it was a big deal and asking the media not to report on it. They should have characterized it as a regretful incident in which these prisoners were inadvertently embarrassed by some military personnel who didn't handle the situation correctly, and let it go at that. Shit happens in war. To consider Abu Ghraib as an atrocity is, itself, an atrocity. If someone wants to know what an "atrocity" is, let them have a look at Bataan or the Nazis, or Saddam's invasion of Kuwait or any number of other examples found in hundreds of wars over time.