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''The priorities of the Godly''
...But what got my friend’s knickers in a knot about the ABC news item was not the [Abu Ghraib] photos themselves; they are repulsive, but they are no worse than what any other news outlet has been displaying for the past couple of weeks. What made him, and me, see red was the warning that accompanied the photos. The photos in question are, at the time of this writing, to be found at [Click Here] and because of the disturbing and sensitive nature of the photos, they are prefaced by a warning for viewers which reads:

WARNING: The following graphic depictions include nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.

Let me quote directly from my friend’s email message to me because he says it as well or better than I would. He wrote that he sees “something distinctly disturbing about a society that can show pix of corpses being gloated over by pretty young army girls, of bloody and battered bodies -- the result of torture -- and of human beings being humiliated, abused and degraded ... and this to carry a warning that the nudity may offend. (Particularly when said nudity is fuzzed out in the pictures anyway.)

"Either that, or this is a way of subtly boosting the humiliation of the Iraqi people -- 'only the sight of your bodies offends us -- not what's done to them.' ...