White House statement today: "... with the approval of the Iraqi government, we will demolish the Abu Ghraib prison as a fitting symbol of Iraq's new beginning."
It's a good idea to knock the place down, but it would have been a much better idea to knock it down right off, and not use it as our own hell hole. To the world and to history Abu Ghraib will always symbolize America's decline and not Saddam's buchery.
Oh, and can we get some impartial search of the place to happen before they blow it up? Just to make sure they don't pile all the evidence of prisoner abuse in there and then blow it up?
The release also states that the U.S. will construct a new, modern, maximum-security prison to replace Abu Ghraib. I'm sure the new prison will be free of all forms of abuse and torture, except of course those which are abided here at home, like executions and stuff.
