They are worried about the backlash.
The Iraqi prisoners' mistreatment show ran out of gas today. Most Americans will have little sympathy for the Iraqi thugs once they watch the news tonight.
I still think that we should live by the Geneva convention and the basic rules of decency for our own benefit, not because I care one bit about these thugs being mistreated.
America is the City on top of the Hill, and Americans are better and more humane than the animals inhabiting that oversized litter box called the Middle East.
They've never CAIRed before. Militant Islam isn't a religion--its a criminal political cult. Maybe all of Islam is like that. Until we can sort out the sh*theads from the religious and the peacefully deluded, every mosque should be monitored and tracked, and Muslim immigration to this country should be cut to at most a trickle.
Someday, a real demagogue will use this as an excuse to ride the swing vote to power. In fact, I'm surprised Hillary isn't there already.