Is Iraq?
Anytime prisoners are treated outside those standards it is abuse.
What provision of the Geneva Accords did we violate in taking pictures of naked prisoners? Different time, different war. And if this is the worst "abuse" our prisoners need fear, then they've got it pretty easy, compared to most other jailers.
Forgive me but it's highly disingenuous to contend that these were "strip-searches," as if these people were naked during some kind of in-processing routine. Nor were they naked because the MPs were "following orders" (an obviously self-serving charge that I will believe only when I see hard evidence for it). They were naked because they were being humiliated for sport by incredibly undisciplined, foolish and sadistic American MPs.
And you know this because ...?
A scandal exists when American soldiers in uniform in a war zone film one another blatantly violating the Geneva Conventions, grinning like bozos all the while.
An impropriety, yes. A distraction, yes. An ugly, forgettable incident, okay. But a "scandal?" Only if you and people like you buy into that designation. I don't.
President Clinton receiving blowjobs in the White House with a 21 year old intern to whom he was not married, lying about it to the American people on camera (complete with finger pointing), being found guilty of lying under oath, i.e., perjury, and being impeached, yet remaining in office.
That the press did not see all this as an embarrassment to our nation, but does see the actions of a few demented soldiers half-way around the world as such, is no surprise. What happened to their line, "It's only sex, and every one does it, and can't we just move on?"