Abu Ghraib & Saddam

Jason calls LA Times columnist Robert Sheer to account for equating what went on in Abu Ghraib last winter with what Saddam did while he ruled Iraq. Jason has condemned the actions of the soldiers at the prison, but he also says this

One can still condemn the actions of those soldiers without trivializing the deaths of hundreds of thousands at the hands of Saddam Hussein.

I say this because to attempt to equate what happened under U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib with what happened there and places like it to Lahib Nouman and people like her is to commit the 21st century equivalent of the Holocaust denier.

Although Jason has singled out Robert Sheer, he's by far not the only one.