"before the problems got so huge."
Well, in the scheme of things, the problems are NOT huge. A few cases of abuse in a *war zone* ... the MEDIA STORY IN BOLD CAP FONT COVER PAGE OF NYT IS WHAT MAKES IT HUGE.
In Iraq, innocent people are killed everyday, and our soldiers as well ... a couple of suspected terrorists made to parade naked is small beer compared to the other travesties and tragedies inherent in a conflict.
Yet these tiny incidents are made to seem like the rape of Nanking... (for the uninformed, that was the 1937 incident where over 30 days Japanese soldiers killed and raped *300,000* Chinese civilians; the same japanese army that stole Korean women, made them sex-prisoners for their soldiers for years on end, had the Bataan death march etc. etc.)
This abuse was blown wholly out of proportion by a media eager to defeat our efforts in Iraq.