In case you haven't read anything about it, here's some articles:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_ob...-name_page.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politic...ics/3675215.stm http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/...ain614063.shtml
Does anyone find this such an ironic situation, in Saddam's prison, the US trops acted, well, like those of the Saddam regime. One important question is how widespread but so far from reading the articles and the level of officers in trouble, it's widespread enough to be a serious problem.
Personally, It wouldn't surprise me if Iraq has just been lost.
The US will have difficulty putting hoods on the heads of prisoners now, every image will evoke those of the torture. Of course, that's unlikely to stop them doing so.
And the arguments being put forward that the troops had insufficient training and so forth are just hogswaddle.