I still think he did nothing wrong. It is not worth dead americans.
Its great that we hold ourselves to such high standards, but there were booby trapped bodies all over the place.
It will get hundreds, if not thousands of our countrymen killed if the media is allowed to run with this.
It will also ecourage more bombing, innocents be damned....
The media has us by the throat, and they'll use anything that even looks suspicious as evidence of widespread war crimes. That's the reality. I was in Tikrit when the first pictures of Abu Ghraib appeared on Al Jazeera. I can't overemphasize how shocking that was to us, because we'd been heavily conditioned to, in so many words, do nothing that would look bad on TV. You could just feel what was coming next.
And it came. As careful and delicate as we'd been before, the clamps on what we could and couldn't do got insanely tighter, and it was driven 100% towards minimizing negative media coverage.