"We need to compensate for this embarassment. We need to spread horrific rumors about real torture and mistreatment. This is embarassing. We're supposed to strike fear in the hearts of our enemies."
Fear in the hearts of our enemies but not the undecided civillian population. We went to Iraq to introduce democracy and the rule of law. Showing that our own who sink below that threshold of expected behaviour are not above that law is a good example. Those soldiers disgraced the flag they serve and the cause they're supposed to exemplify.
You seem to be arguing that we copy the Russian tactics in Chechnya. It didn't help them....
"We went to Iraq to introduce democracy and the rule of law."
Yeah, like our baby-killing law that killed 40 million unborn is such a great moral example. I hate our rule-of-butchery law. It's killed more innocents than the Nazi concentration camps. And it's the same bunch of baby-brain-sucking creeps who whine about panties-on-the-head and make us look like complete idiots in the eyes of our enemies AND allies.
At Gitmo, prisoners throw human waste at our soldiers. I want our soldiers to put them in the hosptital every time they do that. If the prisoner isn't hospitalized, THAT is a reason for court martial. Soiling our uniforms like that should not be taken lightly. Too many men died to give that uniform stature. We have it all completely backwards, because of the very loonies who got this young vet in so much trouble-- people who aren't worthy of wiping her boots.