One of the explanations, Abu Ghraib-wise, is that the prison guards were not properly trained. They had to be trained never to urinate on a prisoner's head?

I yearn for a simpler time when the Democrats were in power and such terrible photos would have been funded by The National Endowment for the Arts.

The guards were just following orders and will be tried in Baghdad. Nuremberg would have been more appropriate.

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One by one, members of Congress are mouthing the conclusion "du jour": "It is a systemic problem." At least our leaders are not afraid to stand up and be vague.

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