The only reason this is being thrown at us in the media is because of the extreme opposition to the war by many Bush hating liberals who want to blame him and any of the other republican heroes who have made much of this war a success thus far.

There is nothing shocking to me about the mistreatment of prisoners during a time of war. My stepfather told many stories about his captivity during vietnam, so I know that things happen and that humiliation is a form of punishment utilized against the enemy. But, I've always had trust in our military men and women to be moral and professionally driven to accomplish a mission. These soldiers who committed these acts are not the kinds of military men and women that I've ever been around.

It's appalling that any of our soldiers would do such things, but it seems like the media is expecting some sort of "OMG! I'm SHOCKED!!" outrage or something like that. Then when you have leaders stand up and say that they are looking into it and that those responsible for the mistreatment of prisoners will be dealt with, the general media reaction is like, "That's it???!"

Um, yea. That's about it. What do they expect people to do? Reverse time and make it NOT happen? The only responsible thing that we can do is to punish those abusers and make them an example so that it doesn't happen again or that the likelihood of it happening again is very minimal. I feel like the expectation of some is that America should be like, "Uh oh...this is bad stuff...we are sorry that these soldiers did this to the men trying to kill them...we are sorry for this war and all this outrage that these soldiers are creating...we have a war going on, so we didn't notice that this sort of thing was happening...we were too busy seeing people get killed that we failed to see such mistreatment going on...we'll end this war and go home now...because we are so sorry."

My personal opinion, not that it matters, is that those dumbasses should get an even harsher punishment just for taking the video and pictures and giving their own country a blackeye. The abuse was bad enough...but taking incriminating videos and pictures is just appallingly stupid and irresponsible to the rest of American society.