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Any humiliation or abuse of war prisoners by US troops is a very serious matter, which needs to be investigated fully. That investigation is taking place. These few soldiers have, in my opinion, insulted the United States and especially their fellow soldiers who put their lives on the line for all of us. I can't see any excuse, and I hope those responsible receive the maximum punishment. The whole matter sickens me.

I wonder whether these prisoners, if given the choice, wouldn't rather take being a member of a naked pyramid over being fed feet first into a wood chipper.

I understand your point. But who was the idiot with the camera? These soldiers certainly handed Bush & co. a headache they didn't need. I too am disgusted with CBS, etc., for publishing this, but they've said the photos would have come out anyway. Certainly our "allies" the French, still smarting over their loss of Saddam's largesse, gleefully printed them all, I'm sure.

And i do worry that now Bush, etc. run the risk of being TOO apologetic. Our enemies will now smell weakness and lack of resolve, rather than fear us, if we, for lack of a better term, "overdo it" on the contrition. I'm not expressing myself properly, but I sure as hell would rather our enemies fear us than like us. We will always be enemies to some - we can't make them like us, even if we wanted to. We can only affect whether they view us as weak or strong, willing to fight or not. I know.