[k2blader]

"...Around us are large-screen tvs, and yes, the news was mostly about the prison abuse. Everyone is so angry. I mean, angry! It is as if those soldiers hurt us more than the enemies here in Iraq have. I don't think that if that RPG last week had hit and killed us in my hummwv, there would have been any of the damage done to our cause here that those soldiers have done."

That's exactly why many of us at home are angry about it too.

[mudblood]

Thanks for letting me know about this post. Its brought me a little closer to the experience of actually being there, in those uniforms, than I'm sure I'll ever get.
Regarding the cheering: its a very good thing that I never joined the military, that I'm not over there now. If I wasn't married, as I am, and if I didn't have a lot to lose, I'm afraid I would have opened up on the "friends of our enemies". Of course, I realize that this is the wrong thing to do, which is a problem for me because I think that whenever the military encounters enemies it should kill them. And these Iraqi's who cheered, they are the support network of the terrorists (militants, in Reuters speak).