Read the news:
Doubts over authenticity of Iraq abuse photos: BBC
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/82859/1/.html And what I said "benefit of at least extenuating circumstances".
I also read in a few other articles, that these prisoners were terrorists who have been ambushing our soldiers, and this treatment -- which is no worse than what some liberal perverts do voluntarily -- was part of an interrogation "softening up". I personally don't want to know how they get information out of the terrorists, but want to make sure they do get everything they can, because it saves lives: our soldiers and our civilians lives.
So I am not rushing to cry in my beer over some terrorists being humiliated, to get info out of them.
These are NOT POW-d captured in legitimate battle, these are hardened terrorists, of the type who would torture and murder every one of us.
In another article I read, that the terrorists are forbidden to talk to each other -- for good reason, and the naked pyramid was their punishment for disobeying those orders.
These photos may be shocking, but would you feel happier, if they had photos of them pulling fingernails, or beating up the prisoners? Or would you prefer that they don't hurt a hair on the head of these darling terrorists, not obtain info, and let their terrorists buddies continue killing our soldiers or even us with impunity.
I thought the objective was to prevent terrorist attacks.
Note that on the pictures the prisoners are wearing hoods so as not to be embarrassed. One of my theories is that maybe these pictures were taken to help in interrogating other prisoners, by threatening them with the same thing, if they don't talk.
In another article, I read that in this prison they were very successful in getting them to break and give good info.
With terrorists, you use what works. They probably would be stoic under painful torture -- of course if anything like that got out, people would be enraged.
I guess some people would prefer antoher 9-11, and another -- and think about the chemical attack in Jordan, that could have killed 80,000 people, if they didn't foil it. That could happen here. As I said, what is your choice -- many thousands of innocent dying, or a few terrorists get somewhat "mistreated".
PERSPECTIVE.
Stupid is stupid. These actions were stupid.
No matter how you spin this.
Nothing! Nothing good will come from these photos! Nothing!
You are going down the DU loon drain by claiming everything is a conspiracy that does not reflect your view of the world.
Further, we are talking about the pictures with the American soldiers mocking prisoners.
Your link is about the British soldier incident.
And even then, other than some unnamed officials saying these photos look suspicious, there is no proof given here that they are phony.
In our case, the principles are already trying to shift the blame do to lack of regulations, etc.
Not one principle has denied these photos are not genuine.
You are losing it!