Maybe if people hadn't bought into the bullcrud that was spouted by Dead Red Ted Kennedy "Abu Ghraib has just reopened under new leadership" (with the same old policies of torture and murder in place), Fatass Million Dollar Marxist Michael Moore, and dopey dope Hunter S. Thompson (who called Abu Ghraib worse than the worst Nazi attrocities while writing for the "apolitical and fired Rush Limbaugh over it" Disney-ESPN), just MAYBE our troops wouldn't have been branded "Rapists", "War Criminals", "imperialists", etc.
CNN covered up torture and abuse under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad Bureau.
The Bush administration was already prosecuting those involved in the Abu Ghraib case when the MSM tried to use the news of it to oust Bush from office (in 2004's election). All it did was serve as agitprop to flood terrorists (much like the Islamic State recruits) into Iraq.
You are right, but I think it was the deaths of American soldiers which turned people against the war, not panties on the head.