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After reading the article in call about the Abu Ghraib and that scandal i did some more research on it and found it very appalling. In a news article i found that there was more to the it than just the pictures that they took. They made the detainees do degrading things to each other and so also frighten them. The images found on this were horrifying, and what was surprising was that the soldiers in the pictures seemed happy, like they weren't don't anything wrong. One soldier that seem to get a lot of publicity over this matter was a woman who was seen in many photos giving 2 thumbs up while standing behind a pile of detainees all of then naked or while she was working a leg wound that had appeared to be caused by a dog bit.

Another soldier that had gotten a lot of publicity was a male dog handler. It showed him threaten the detainees with the dog by having it snarl and lunge at them. He defense in court was that he was doing what he was told to do.

This whole matter i find just truly appealing. What goes through peoples heads when they are given a little bit of power is truly amazing because then they think they can get away with any thing just because they have the upper hand.

I talk to you in class and you said i should go a head and post this for the 10-18-09 date.