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So we shouldn't have handled the thugs excuse me prisoners like that, but I wonder what would have been the reaction during WWII if it was found that we had abused Nazis like that. I think most people would have yawned. No, we shouldn't treat the Iraqi thugs like that, but this is a minor incident in the overall picture. Punish the miscreants appropriately, and move on. Oh yes, and screw the hypocritical Arab street who I don't give one pomegranite about their feelings for this "atrocity".

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The sense of horror in Arab countries has been particularly acute. Understandably so, for torture is a reality which impinges on citizens of Arab nations in a way it does not directly on us.

ACTUALLY the sense of horror in Arab countries is different because their media used fake photos from porno websites as "news photos".

U.S. calls for Arab retractions

The day after a WorldNetDaily report revealed that photos circulating in the Middle East that depict GI's raping Iraqi women were fake and had originated from pornography sites, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo issued a statement calling on Arab news outlets to publish retractions.

The embassy statement read, "We have done a thorough investigation of the origin of these photos and have conclusive evidence that they originated on a pornographic web site. They are clearly staged photos, done by actors, as the site itself states."

The Al Wafd newspaper published four photographs on the top of its front page that were alleged show American soldiers sexually abusing female prisoners in Iraq. Al Osboa and Al Mussawer published two of the same photos

The U.S. Embassy called the publication of these pornographic photos, with headlines alleging the involvement of U.S. soldiers, a "fundamental violation of journalistic integrity," and stated that their publication needlessly inflamed an already heated atmosphere.

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