With the actions of our soldiers at Abu Ghraib, Rush Limbaugh joked that the pictures were reminescent of a fraternity hazing stunt, though in trying to make light of the situation, he may have summed up the Lefts opinion of how the Right views the situation: they just don't care.
The administration had possession of the pictures since January, and if 60 Minutes II had not broke the story, you know the admin (read Bush and Rumsfeld and company) would still be sitting on them, content with the knowledge that "no one knows, so I don't know either(plausible deniability)".
I fear the truth of the matter is that our government knew about our treatment of prisoners well before January, but was more than content to allow the abuses to continue. Why not? No one is ever going to find out, and if they do, we have a long chain of command to throw to the fire, starting with the PFC's.
The question that I have is where does the 'Geneva Convention' come into play in all this? From my understanding, the Iraqi prisoners are subject to the Geneva Convention guidelines, which I would think would prohibit this kind of activity. So who was/is in charge?
Needless to say, this is a tremendous black eye for America. We hold ourselves up to so righteous and moral, and then something like this comes up and we are reminded that we are all just human, falling prey to fear and evil just like our everyone else.
