Judge: Abu Gharib images and videos need to be released

[War Angel]

Oh god... They haven't even been tried. NONE of these people are convicted terrorists, and therefore you shouldn't be calling them terrorists.

They are enemy soldiers that fired upon American forces. Not terrorists, but not innocent either. Doesn't mean they should get such horrible treatment, though.

As for the claim - no, the actual images of the despicable acts at Abu Gharaib should not be released. There's no reason to - it would harm the prisoners even more, would make people sick, and doesn't contriubute to anything. The acts have been made, no-one is denying that, and so, actual images are not needed.

If anyone asks for these images and videos to be released, I'd have to doubt their motives, thinking maybe they're from rotten.com, or own some tabloid that could profit from such disgusting images.

[Gnostic Yevon]

I think it would be wrong to release more pictures, because the result of the pictures would be more deaths. That would be wrong.

[Cloud No.9]

do you think that the groups in al qaeda seriously need a set of pictures to kill american soldiers? the fact that they are there is good enough.

the american military must needs to face up to the kind of soldiers it has. as was seen in the other post about exchanging pics of dead iraqis for porn. this isn't an isolated incident. abu gahrib is not new. it happened in baghram and it continues to happen in guantanamo. the de-humanisation of people is something the american army has been very good at since the vietnam war.

it is part of this war now. if you mention quantanamo bay when the torture isn't in doubt there will be people who say "but their terrorist" like the fact that they are human doesn't matter and that they deserve the most degrading treatment. ignore that they were never tried. the american population and more specifically only cares that these folk could be terrorists and so don't count. like the germans did with the communists.

the american government isn't worried about iraqis seeing this. they have had reasons for the past few years to blow up american soldiers. and this isn't what incited 9-11.

the american government is worried about it's bad publicity. this happened on their watch. this is proof of what the american army is doing. and that isn't good propaganda.