  We went to Iraq to find/remove the WMD's, right...oh, no, it was to liberate the Iraqi people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Right? If that's the case, if we are trying to make it better for the people of Iraq, to bring them the privileges and benefits of democracy...then why are our own troops committing urlLink acts similar to what Hussein's regime itself did ...and in one of the same prisons where the Hussein regime committed some of it's atrocities.
I know (at least I sincerely hope) that this is not the norm, that these acts were committed by some bad apples in the forces over there. However, I cannot accept the excuse of poor training (it doesn't take any training to know how to treat other human beings as human beings). This will surely have a negative impact on support for the war in Iraq. My agreement or disagreement with said war aside, this surely will not make us very popular with the people of Iraq or the Arab world.
I'm not referring to terrorists; I'm speaking of the opinion of the ordinary Iraqi citizens, those we are, due to our actions in overthrowing their government, responsible for. The Iraqis in these prisons may be enemy soldiers or suspected terrorists, maybe former Saddam loyalists...whatever; the point is it is not right for us to treat them like animals, to torture and humiliate them.
It reduces us to a level with terrorists and kidnappers (maybe even lower). Whatever acts they may have committed, we owe them decent treatment. We are supposed to be the liberators, not another group of tyrants with different uniform. Am I pissed off at these soldiers? You're damn right I am. They not only reflect poorly on all military personnel (like the morons who commit crimes in foreign ports), but they obviously aren't even decent people; I'm ashamed to think they are fellow servicemen.
It is my sincere hope that they are held to task for this, and that their commanders are as well. And the beginning of their punishment, if/when found guilty, should be stripping of all rank and removal from the service. No one who does these things lives up to the core values of any service of ours. 
