I can't find this diaried. Sorry if it is repetitive.
Judge Hellerstein yesterday ordered the release of the remaining Abu Ghraib photos. These are the bad ones that left some senators visibly shaken and that even Rumsfeld made a pretence of being horrified by.Guardian Link.
While this is a good decision for obvious reasons, such as fundamental honesty about what we have done, there is a tremendous firestorm coming.
The pictures reportedly document murder as well as the rape of young boys.
We have at least 20 days, possibly a few months. Assuming this decision is not reversed, how on earth do we get ready for this? Another of Bush's shambling non-apologies will do very little to calm the waters. And it won't be much fun watching him squirm as millions of these images flood the world.