What do we need to see in order to understand?

Most media outlets are relentless drumming on the Abu Ghraib stories. I find it hypocritical that these photos are "necessary for people to understand" and yet other photos and images are not appropriate or necessary so people can 'understand':

images of murdered innocents in Israel, or in the US on 9/11/01
the burned and mutiliated bodies of four contractors in Iraq
Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl being murdered by thugs in hoods
partial birth abortion
a 3D image of a baby in her mother's womb

I appreciated these comments, published in The Federalist recently:

"The party of partial-birth abortion is still fuming at the photos from Abu Ghraib. Unborn children don't survive the torture of abortion, but images of violence done to them never make it to the desks of Democrats. The party of Abu Ghraib in the womb did interrupt its outrage over barbarism abroad long enough this week to tout barbarism at home. The human rights abuse of abortion remains the centerpiece of the Democratic party's platform. John Kerry simultaneously assured his supporters that as president he would speedily remove American soldiers from the "death zone" of Iraq and preserve the death zone at home protected under the penumbras of the U.S. Constitution. 'I will not appoint somebody with a 5-4 court who's about to undo Roe v. Wade. I've said that before,' he said. Not to worry, abortionists: John Kerry won't apply the Geneva Convention to unborn children. He won't send the Red Cross to visit your Planned Parenthood clinics... Enemy combatants have rights under their platform; unborn children don't. Why is Abu Ghraib "un-American" and abortion as American as apple pie? Shouldn't a civilized nation be consistent?" --George Neumayr