The photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse were disturbing, but they were not scenes of torture. Torture is how Saddam and his thugs ruled Iraq. They cut out people’s tongues, cut off limbs, crushed feet, raped and killed children in front of their parents, lowered people feet-first into vats of acid and plastic shredders, and filled graves with hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. The pictures from Abu Ghraib were of humiliation and abuse. The guards who committed these acts should be punished to the full extent of the law, but these abuses should never be equated with the torture ordered...