[nmh]

"The stain on the US military could prove harder to erase than the photographs of sadistic abuse and torture by US guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. "

The above was silly. I guarantee you, Nick Berg would have loved to have panties on his head rather than having hsi head lopped off.

"Comparisons are being made to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968, in which US troops slaughtered 500 villagers. "

This I remember, growing up. I say it was wrong but I also understand how people can lose it.

[Mordacious]

"The stain on the US military could prove harder to erase than the photographs of sadistic abuse and torture by US guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. " The above was silly.

Especially when you realize that there are folks who'll happily fork over a few hundred bucks to have some dominatrix give them the same treatment. Seriously, the media has seen to it that we've lost the true meaning of the word torture.