Well said, DocFrance. I agree completly.

If we want Iraqi citizens to feel that we've truly come to liberate them, as we claim, then we should act like liberators and not like the one we liberated them from. No, what those people did wasnt nearly as bad as what Saddam did... but can you imagine it's effect on the everyday Iraqi citizen? The chilling though that, hey, maybe even after Saddam is gone... there'll just be a force as evil to replace them? No, I'm not saying that the American force is evil as a whole, but I know if I were an Iraqi civilian learning of this, that would be the first thing on my mind.

We can only hope that some good can come of this. That maybe this will expose problems and the military will strive to fix them. Hopefully this was just an isolated incident, though I did see on the BBC news that the investigation has exposed far more... even in British forces (the only incident I clearly remember them speaking of was a British soldier urinating on an Iraqi captive, I dunno if they mentioned anything else).