How did the tortures at Abu Ghraib fade from the news?How did

[KlatooBNikto]

the "tortures" become "Abuses"?How did the murders at that infamous prison get shoved under the rug? How did the pictures of the most gruesome tortures which Congress was able to see get suppressed?

[lil-petunia]

1. Scott Peterson is practicing to testify. That is more important than

some minor abuse and murder way far away off in that sand lot.

[Slit Skirt]

4. nobody is allowed to touch it

I email the media relentlessly...a lot of good it does...

[sam sarrha]

2. probably by Executive Demand, if the Moslem's found out women and children

were raped and tortured, especially how bad it was on the tapes with sound, it would be the end of civilization as we know it.

that is why we MUST REMOVE this NEOCON ABOMINATION from our Nation. They are Evil.:tinfoilhat: :argh:

[Alpharetta]

3. I expected this to be the week of the leaks

if the Pentagon had failed to corral all video or pictures of the rapes, this would be the week they surfaced

[liveoaktx]

7. The ACLU had sued to get the info out-supposed to be by Oct 15th

on a court order. Where is it?

[sweetheart]

5. Because torture is US policy.

Pictures were not supposed to get out. Our entire prison system
is based on the concept of "punishment", not "rehabilitation" and
in to this regime we offer rape and untold thuggery.. IN OUR OWN
PRISONS... let alone those in some foreign land.

Like the TV show "friends" is completely santitized of all hints of
that aspect of american life, the prison-complex is completely
sanitized of all civil aspects... the two opposite polarities of
the human existance, good and evil.. Good is supposed to be on
camera where we deify the participants. Evil likewise is our prisons
and their inhabitants, dante's hell manifested in the human world.

And since people are both good AND evil, it is some sort of plan to
split the human being, where one half of ourselves seeks to erradicate
the other half, in an impossible war.

So it faded from existance, because we were never supposed to see
the torture. Rape and torture are sanctioned by americana, it is the new way,
same as the old way.... and to think that society has moved on from
the mongolian hoardes. Only in technology. The barbarians wear
clothes, and somehow by the clean shaven cosmetic appearance, the
whole subterfuge is driven underground with the moorlocks.

[tinanator]

6. bipartisan cooperation

like the PATRIOT Act and the rush to a bogus war, it happens at the ugliest moments.

[wishlist]

8. Because revelations set off onslaught of kidnappings, beheadings, etc

No one wants to be blamed for causing the spike in the insurgency that occurred right after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. After all, look how Kerry is being attacked over 30 years later for his Senate testimony about Vietnam atrocities and being blamed for extending the war in Vietnam and for creating mistreatment and lengthier detainment of American POW's in North Vietnam.

Unfortunately negative focus is always on the messengers of bad news, while the condemnation should be for the criminals perpetrating the vicious acts and in the case of our soldiers, condemnation for the government and military policies that led to the atrocities being committed in the first place.