but, if these guys being interrogated were such important terrorist prisoners, why was the security so lax that hundreds of pics were taken and a video was made? something doesn's add up.
real terrorists should be kept in secure places with reliable guards, not a bunch of sex-crazed national guardspeople. security should stop all unauthorized cameras.
every one of these pics just recruits more people for the insurgency.
good nite, people. i hope our guys will get it together and eliminate the terrorists in a more expeditious and non-photographed manner.
i'm gonna curl up with my books about the alamo and read about how you fight a war to win.
the insurgency recruitment drive is actually going the other way - more Shia are protesting against Sadr then joining up with him. the average iraqi likely knows full well who these prisoners are - fedayeen, iraqi secret police, baath party thugs, foreign fighters - there isn't too much pity for them, except amongst the media and the Democrat Senate caucus (Lieberman and Miller excluded).
anyone keeping track of how many US soldiers have been killed in combat and car bomb/IED style attacks since this whole prison scandal broke?
But you are right on the other point - discipline and training were non-existant. But no one is covering that up, its being admitted to all the way up the chain.