Thanks, Mr. Godwin. I appreciate most of what you wrote, but you lost me with the Abu Ghraib reference (unless you were referring to Abu Ghraib under Saddam Huseein, which I doubt).

You say "the connection between the humiliations inflicted there and the ones the Nazis imposed upon death camp inmate" makes for a "valid" comparison, but come on now - the people imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka suffered far, far, far worse (starvation, mutilation, extermination) than anything endured at Abu Ghraib under U.S. control. I realize that you Godwinned yourself intentionally, but the suggestion in this case it's "valid" is wrong.