Abu Ghraib vs. Armenian Genocide?

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Turkey is already reacting strongly to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's vote to declare the 1915-1923 massacre of Armenians a genocide, with the country's leading newspapers suggesting America examine its own house before casting judgement on other nations.

In a 23-page photo spread this morning, the secular-centrist daily Hurriyet posted graphic photos of American soldiers threatening naked prisoners with snarling dogs; standing over naked prisoners bound together on the prison floor; and dozens of other shots of bloodied bodies lying in the rubble of Iraq.

Meanwhile, the also-influential Milliyetpaper is broadcasting its own shots of an Iraqi woman cowering on the floor before a U.S. soldier and dead bodies on stretchers.

In both papers, the headlines translate loosely to: Look who is saying 'genocide.'

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