How did we get from September 12th, 2001, when a leading French newspaper ran a giant headline with the words "We Are All Americans Now" and when we had the good will and empathy of all the world - to the horror that we all felt in witnessing the pictures of torture in Abu Ghraib? (Al Gore)

How did we get from September 12th, 2001, when a leading French newspaper ran a giant headline with the words "We Are All Americans Now" and when we had the good will and empathy of all the world - to the horror that we all felt in witnessing the pictures of torture in Abu Ghraib?

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