Why the Abu Ghraib photos, but not the Mohammed Cartoons?

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Why the Abu Ghraib photos, but not the Mohammed Cartoons?

By Rick Edwards · 07:51 PM · February 15, 2006 ·

That's the question being asked in the blogosphere, and by its readers today, as mainstream media begins to gleefully reprint the old and new Abu Ghraib pictures.

Why, mainstream media? Why?

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