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I have a question about all this talk of "abuse". This could be one of 2 things. Either they're some sick wierdos who get off abusing people in which case they should be tried for war crimes against the Iraqis, or they were following orders to soften up Iraqi enemy combatants for intelligence to extract information from in which case the military people who revealed this should be tried for treason against the USA. What do these liberal pansies want us to do when we need to extract information from captured prisoners? The most we can do is threaten to withold jelly from their peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches? Yeah, that'll work. If this administration's political opponents have to ok everything our intelligence community does and run it by the public, we have already lost and big time.

I can see other possibilities --- Maybe very understaffed with too many prisoners --- that they did what they thought they had to do to get and keep the upper hand, or rather unprofessional types who didn't have proper supervision and training --- maybe recruiters convinced them to join the military and they had few other prospects, maybe came from rougher cruder backgrounds than some of us --- the kind that listen to and admire Stern and Jackass shows.