Yea, why not?If they would have used pork products instead of porn pictures to cause them to be 'defiled before Allah', the liberals and the media would still have had a field day.
This is my opinion on the matter:
These prisoners, if it were told by the military or press as Ollie North told it (because of the section of the prison they were in) are: Al Qaeda, Saddam's Fedayeen, Saddam's 'Elite Republican Guard known as "M9" or "M-something", they are (I fully believe) largely foreigners which include Syrians, many Iranians, Palestinians (who do the suicide crap), Saudi Arabians, Pakis and an assortment of other foreign fighters-terrorists-murderers.
The "religious" ones believe that they are in "Jihad" (their holy war) and no torture or threats of death will brake them nor make them talk. Why? Because they are doing this for Allah and will go to him when it's over and be greatly rewarded as martyrs in the cause of Islam. BUT, not if they are not "pure". These "staged" pictures (even the wounds and abuse are perhaps fake and the real dead ones could be bodies of the KIA and posed for effect before buried wrapped in what? to prevent entrance to paradise?). How does an warrior for Allah explain these actions to Allah desiring from him paradise and virgins?
These picture are better than actual torture. They perhaps worked better than firing guns near them. Threatening pictures of what "could happen" can be worse than having it actually happen...to the religious...to those not yet 'defiled'.
You and I both know that these pictures were never meant for "outside viewing". These are internal interrogation and psyche-ops tools and methods of extracting need intel for our benefit in Iraq and what is planned for outside Iraq...where did they come from, who is funding them, arming them, transporting them, how do the get into Iraq and all that and more...
Whoever got these pictures out to expose them to the enemy-friendly-sympathizing media is an internal enemy. Now, many good loyal and true soldiers will be sacrificed at the alter of "PC" They will be publicly humiliated, careers, reputations and futures will be destroyed and they probably didn't do anything wrong when you consider those they were dealing with. A Christian member of the Iraqi Council said on CBN News that our military are being 'too nice and too easy on these prisoners'. He suggested that we should have used the actual torture and then the death penalty for these terrorist scum-bags.