I started watching the "Ghosts of Abu Gharib" early this morning,

[Skidmore]

something I had kept posponing for some time. I finally started watching it, and made it about half of the way through it. I turned it off when couldn't see the screen any more through tears, and because it made me so physically ill to watch the depravity and the callous disregard reflected in the actions of those people. "It was just another dead person" is the comment I remember most, just another dead person.....

I believe that Abu Gharib is just the tip of the iceberg and that the administration and their operatives have committed and condoned the commission of atrocities which will never be told until much later. We need to get out of there now. NOW! And any Democratic Party legislator or candidate who tries to justify this insanity in Iraq in the name of national security deserves the same derision given to * and his cronies and the lemmings on the Republic side of the aisle in Congress.

[H2O Man]

1. It is intense.

I found it difficult to watch.

[Skidmore]

2. It was horrible. I just can't understand why people

become this way. I have some resentment toward the old Iraqi regime. I lived in Tehran during the 1970s and part of the 1980s through most of that war. Night after night fire came from the sky. My children were small then and we all lived in fear of the next night of bombings. Sometimes fire came from the sky in broad daylight. There is no safe place in war, only luck, sheer dumb luck for survival--particularly for women, children, the elderly, and the infirm. After experiencing all of this, I would not wish any of those experiences on an Iraqi family, let alone the extreme abuse I saw those soldiers hand out in that movie.