[AtavisticThrowback]

Perfect analysis. This will blow over. And any attempt to paint our troops as war criminals as a campaign issue will certainly backfire.

Personally, I don't like what happened there but I am more or less equally pissed that they filmed it as I am that they did it in the first placed.

I got treated worse in my fraternity hell-week than these bozos, except for the guy-on-guy action.

And let's not forget the Arab obsession with being humiliated. In some wierd way this might actually deter some of them from fighting us.

Anyway, this was still a black eye on our PR team. But it will pass.

[Born Conservative]

Agreed; this involves a small group of our troops, and there actions are not reflective of the vast majority of our troops. I also agree with Rush that the pics of the charred bodies in Fallujah are much more inflammatory than these "torture" pics.

BTW, glad to hear you escaped the "guy-on-guy action" during Hell Week!