I have a friend who lives in Boulder and whose husband is in Iraq with the Army's 1st ID. She has one of those "Support Our Troops" yellow ribbons on her car. She said she gets the bird from people all the time. I don't get it. What's wrong with these people?
"What's wrong with these people?"
they are smug know-it-all jerks and can't stand the fact that other people are actually doing something -- honorably serving our country in Iraq -- that they themselves would REFUSE to do; and the way they get their point across is by using an obsene gesture . . .
That is why the prison photos will get more of their attention than anything else in the whole war: to try to smear the entire Armed Forces and our entire effort, rather than seeing it as an isolated incident that BTW is being punished by the proper authorities . . .