Required reading from a registration site just don't work. I ain't handing my personal information to the Washington Post, and they don't need it anyway. But they demand it just to look at the required reading you mentioned.
Agreed, Ben. WaPo articles behind their info page go unread here.
Mailinator.com is your friend. Instant disposable email addresses with no registration requirements.
Also, Bugmenot.com. It has throwaway accounts for just about every registration-required news site out there.
No need to do that, just plug the url into google's search, it won't find anything, but it will offer a link to the url, when you click on it you come in with a google referer, which bypasses the registration check (google news deal I think).
I'm in the Army and we were talking about this today. Here's what I was trying to get across to my compatriots and what Krauthammer said so much better than I did:
//Let's be clear. The things we have learned so far about Abu Ghraib are not, by far, the worst atrocities committed in war. Indeed, they pale in comparison with what Arab insurgents have done to captured Westerners, and what Saddam Hussein did to his own people.//
This is also being left out of all the coverage of this issue in the media. Note that in the pictures published so far, there was nary a woodchipper to be seen nor are there scenes of children being tortured to elicit information.
This is precisely why MI/ CIA directed the prisoners to be treated in this fashion. They knew it would be ten times worse than a beating. As has been mentioned elsewhere, how much desesitizing had the reserve MPs had as stateside prison guards, where such treatment is routine for "difficult" prisoners?
