Originally posted by Pyrosama
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.
That is my opinion on the matter as well. I also agree with your point that the punishment should be additionally harsh since their photographing/videoing of it all just adds to the callousness of it.

What I despise is the way this is being twisted to extreme political ends. Some are trying to act like this is "no big deal" and others are trying to blame this on Bush. *boggle*

This is a problem. It is a nasty problem. But in America, we DEAL WITH PROBLEMS and resolve them. We fix things that are broken. We improve things that are not operating properly.

When we obsess over the blame game more than the solution, we become worthless and ineffectual as a society.