atrocity according to all dictionaries that I have is an act that exceeds ALL moral bounds, heinous, extreme....Yeah the stuff that happened wasn't a good thing
If it was your son or daughter who'd been sodomized with a chemical light, forced to eat from a toilet and renounce his or her religion, held naked for long periods of time, forced to masturbate for the amusement of guards, or brought home dead as a result of being packed in ice after multiple, prolonged beatings, would you treat it as "something bad" but not exceeding "ALL moral bounds, etc"?
I don't think so.
One doesn't have to be a Stalin or Hitler or Hussein to commit atrocities. People just like you and I are capable such actions...and often are guilty of such things. All it takes is a little opportunity and a large amount of rationalization.
Graner is an out of control jerk who is a criminal. Many of the assertions as to what "happened" have yet to be proven ( which is what the courtmartials are for). If my son or daughter were fighting against US troops and for the Islamic nations of the world...I would not really care much as to what was done to them. I will say again that Islam is EVIL started out EVIL has throughout its history been EVIL and as long as it remains commited to the Koran will contie to be EVIL. Are these atrocities? NO but pulling apart bodies and burning them to a crisp and then hanging them from a bridge certainly is. Killing six million people because you are a psychopatic meth head certainly is. If this were not being investigated and handled by the military then I might agree with you but it is being investigated and handled in the appropriate way. That is why it is not an atrocity