Ignorance is bliss. It’s also cowardly.

So I was wrong about the photos making a blip on the radar. If you read the daily ABC News political summary ”The Note”, you'll find no mention of it. Guess phenomena that incite world violence just aren't political news.

Worse photos released today by Salon. Catch them soon before they are censored.

One in particular shows a bound naked man with an object shoved into his anus. The soldiers involved were exonerated because of the man’s proclaimed mental illness. Yeah right. That naked guy bound hand and foot in a military prison just happened to find a convenient phallus. Even buying the story, why are we keeping mentally ill people shackled naked?

No officers have been prosecuted to date. Don’t tell me they never noticed the wounded, hooded, naked men chained to each other. If they never noticed they would surely have been court-martialled for incompetence. They knew and they weren’t tried. Why not? I imagine they were following orders.

This was paid for with our tax dollars. It has been covered up by the Executive and also by both parties of the Senate who viewed those photos in 2003. The courts have dallied and stalled for 3 years, and even our vaunted 4th estate is turning a blind eye.

I see people trying to minimize this or ignore it because they want to be proud and this makes them feel bad about America. Tough shit. That’s both cowardly and lazy. This is not what America stands for. We have a problem. If you want to be proud of America, do the brave thing and view the photos. We need to fix this properly. It should have been done 3 years ago. And there is worse to come.