That it was inflated propaganda does not contradict my larger point that this event had wide ranging repercussions on our image and therefore impaired diplomacy while we are at war.
Only last week world-wide-communism ambassador Ted Kennedy was rubbing it our faces again. It all started with out-of-control parties that the participants clearly knew would be UCMJ violations. That's what was clearly in front of their noses.
I didn't say the soldiers acted properly at Abu Ghraib, but she doesn't deserve 11 years in jail.