Last week in Washington, I attended the first public showing of "Remembering Saddam," a 50-minute film that focuses on how Abu Ghraib torturers cut off the right hands of men who exchanged Iraqi money for dollars during the 1990s. Those men were fortunate to escape with their lives, and seven of them were present at the premiere, waving new, high-tech hands that American ingenuity and compassion have given them.

 ABC, CBS and NBC should be in a bidding war for their film; CNN, to its credit, showed about 10 minutes of it last week. Some people say that communications technology makes warfare asymmetrical, since we display our sins while tyrants torture and kill their opponents in secret. But even brutes may take pride in their work, and film it for posterity -- a society like ours is only at a disadvantage if media gatekeepers try to keep out anything that could help to re-elect George W. Bush.

 So miracle No. 2 would be letting all the light shine. Television networks should show us what we're fighting against, even if that makes more people understand what we're fighting for. Given demonstrated press bias, such a turnaround would be extraordinary

 And here's one more miracle to look for: something good to come out of the Abu Ghraib revelations. So far they have affected America in two ways. They made some give up on the Iraq war, and that hurts us militarily. They made others argue that war is war and degradation happens, so get used to it -- that could be a cultural loss. It's hard to be as tough as we need to be, in this war against terrorism, without brutalizing ourselves. Miracle No. 3 would be finding a way.