No one is "stealing" any dignity. You entirely miss the point, which is that the media have been pounding President Bush to apologize for something — anything — well before the prison abuse story broke. So now they have something, and they are blowing it up way out of proportion to the entire effort in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the meantime, the media are all but ignoring what might well be the most massive scandal in modern history: the UN oil-for-food scam.
Whether or not you get it, most of the media are doing this for one reason and one reason only: politics.
Is the abuse of Iraqi prisoners wrong. Of course. I don't know anyone who's arguing otherwise. But there are other wrongs — vastly worse, frankly — that the media doesn't give a flying "eff" about. This thread is a way to point out media and Dem hypocrisy. No less than Sen. Joe Lieberman was on TV this morning saying pretty much the same thing — in his own more diplomatic words, of course.