The real sad part of this is that the officers responsible for the conduct and activity of these troops have not been adequately brought to justice. The UCMJ applies to ALL in the military, and as a veteran, I can speak to the reality that officers are responsible for their units and the behavior in those units.
The other side is that this would not have been such a big deal, in time of war (just review WW2 history), if the liberal, anti-war, anti-military media and their socialist accomplices did not politicize it for their own anti-American agenda.
I force myself to listen to NPR on a regular basis, and I could just about scream when they have a whole program on torture-related issues without ever once even paying lip service to the actual need to gain intelligence.