Worth reading from from Riverbend…

Baghdad Burning: “People are seething with anger- the pictures of Abu Ghraib and the Brits in Basrah are everywhere. Every newspaper you pick up in Baghdad has pictures of some American or British atrocity or another. It’s like a nightmare that has come to life.

Everyone knew this was happening in Abu Ghraib and other places? seeing the pictures simply made it all more real and tangible somehow. American and British politicians have the audacity to come on television with words like, ‘True the people in Abu Ghraib are criminals, but?’ Everyone here in Iraq knows that there are thousands of innocent people detained. Some were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, while others were detained ‘under suspicion’. In the New Iraq, it’s ‘guilty until proven innocent by some miracle of God’. “