re: Andy Rooney - overkill.
Can you honestly agree with Rooney that the abuse in that prison ranks up there in bad times America's history with Pearl Harbor and 9/11? Aren't we getting just a little bit over the edge here?
The image of one bad young woman with a naked man on a leash did more to damage America's reputation than all the good things we've done over the years ever helped our reputation.
Maybe that might be true if you have the kind of memory that only goes back to last week's newspaper, or a public school American history education.
This is nuts.
Not as nuts as Hunter Thompson, who wrote "Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did," but still nuts.