Looking at those pictures, the thought that kept running through my mind was, how all these decent and brave people have been insulted and betrayed, and used.

It would have been easy to produce a similar set of images from any country's army - Saddam's Iraq, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany.- In any army there are going to be people trying to act as decent human beings. Probably most people in most armies.

But when those images are used to try to generate uncritical support for a nation in waging war in any place, any time, that is a betrayal and an insult of the people in the pictures.

And I also had running through my mind the other set of pictures - the pictures that showed another side of it, through My Lai and all the way of to Abu Ghraib, and the other pictures that were never taken of stuff as bad as that or worse. Both sets of pictures have to be held together.