The Abu Ghraib Photos Remind Me of Those Taken at Auschwitz

The Lone Liberal

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Sun May-02-04 12:14 AM
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The Abu Ghraib Photos Remind Me of Those Taken at Auschwitz

That is not to equate one with the other, only that when I saw those naked bodies stacked like so much cord wood it brought back memories of pictures taken when the death camps were liberated. The bodies, in the Abu Ghraib photos are alive, hopefully? Looking at those pictures I ask myself, how can my government hold a human in such low esteem? If it can do that to any human then why would I feel that it would not do the same to me?

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LastDemocratInSC

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Sun May-02-04 12:35 AM
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1. Cruelty, humiliation and death have no respect for the boundaries of time

From Germany in the 1940s, to the Russian gulags of the 1950s, to the re-education camps of China in the 1960s, to Cambodia and Chile in the 1970s, to Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s, to the genocide in Rwanda the 1990s, to the United States' crimes in Iraq in 2004.

Each of us has a responsibility, in every moment of our lives, to examine our intents and motives and be sure that they are in agreement with the values we know to be universal - that every person has an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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DrWeird

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Sun May-02-04 01:27 AM
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2. The only real difference is scale.

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Piperay

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Sun May-02-04 04:06 AM
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3. That stuck me too

Edited on Sun May-02-04 04:08 AM by Piperay

especially one photo that wasn't even explicit. The photo just showed the prisoners walking along in a straight line but they were naked and seemed so resigned to it that it reminded me of the inmates in a Nazi prison camp, the way they were marched along. :-(

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greatauntoftriplets

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Sun May-02-04 07:08 AM
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4. The bodies at Abu Ghraib are better fleshed.

Otherwise, yes, I am reminded of Auschwitz

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hertopos

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Sun May-02-04 07:12 AM
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5. I agree!!

This is not 'interrogation went to far' It is systematic and some evil mind behind it.

'I ask myself, how can my government hold a human in such low esteem'

That is exactly how I felt and that's way your analogy is quite valid.

Hertopos

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