"The hooded figure stands Christ-like, arms out, frozen in place by the snaking wires that he was told would kill him if his bare feet left the small box on which he is poised. Chosen for publicity because his nakedness is actually covered with some filthy rag, he is emblazoned on every newspaper in the world. Other photos are worse: a mound of naked men, obscenely intertwined for laughing torturers; leering American soldiers pointing imaginary weapons at prisoners' genitals. And those not published are even worse: men forced to simulate sex acts with each other, or to masturbate before their guards. Staring at these images, an entire aghast international community recalls dehumanizations pursued by the worst regimes in history. Arab-Muslim sensitivities to nakedness give these scenes-flanked by the leering female US soldier-an additional dimension of shame and horror. But what exactly does this faceless man symbolize-besides the moral rot filtering through the foundations of the US occupation?" (great job Virginia)