Watching the News Lately is Torture

This and this pretty much sum up my feelings about this torture scandel. It's getting way too much news time, the people involved should be punished and it should be made clear through the chain of command that this will not be tolerated and we are not there to torment prisoners. Period.

One more thing. It would never occur to me to have prisoners strip down for any reason at all unless they were going to take a shower. In fact the very thought of seeing these men (or any men) naked is repulsive. Why are they naked in all the pictures? Who were these people doing this? Are they gay? That is the only possible reason I can think of why they would be naked. If the prisoners were women at least I could understand why they took their clothes off but not men, never, not for any reason. No.

I'm not saying a gay man is more likely to torment an Iraqi prisoner than a hetorosexual man, both are equally capable of wrongdoing, just more likely to torment a naked Iraqi prisoner, provided that prisoner is a male. The opposite is true for female prisoners.

This whole thing is stupid and we need to get over it.