[Theo]

I've been wondering if this is representative of "softening up" of those our military are preparing to interrogate. There's no "torture" here, just a type of humiliation specially crafted for Iraqi Muslim men. It may not be as "bad" as it looks.

It is very strange and repulsive; but perhaps that necessary.

[Eurotwit]

I think it might be. That somehow scares me even more..

I don't know, and to be honest quite shocked and disgusted at the moment.

Apparently the MI's were very satisfied with the softening up. Who knows, this might have saved lifes.

But, now it is going to costs lifes, and put the whole Iraq project in danger.

But, as many have said, the whole filming and photographing....

[HairOfTheDog]

It may not be as "bad" as it looks.

It certainly is! I am not in panic mode, as some are... I believe this has to be an unauthorized, unsupported and definately out of bounds behavior of a few. I want them gone. But trying to pass this off as anything less than disgusting and below us does us a disservice.

[SuziQ]

There's no "torture" here, just a type of humiliation specially crafted for Iraqi Muslim men. It may not be as "bad" as it looks.

I believe that, the more pictures are actually shown, the more people in this country will start saying the same thing, and it will blowback on the Dems one more time. People know the kind of torture Iraqi citizens had to face at the hands of Sadaam and his evil sons, and they know that what they are seeing in these pictures is NOTHING like that.

[JRandomFreeper]

There's no "torture" here, just a type of humiliation specially crafted for Iraqi Muslim men.

As a reservist, I would immediately report such conduct up the chain until it stopped. The Rules of Land Warfare do not allow what the pictures show. Ever.

I'm very PO'ed about being a reservist and painted with the same brush as the losers that did these things.

/john