America don't have the moral high-ground simply because they are there in the first place. That's the whole problem, you can't just turn up, blow stuff up and then say 'Hey your liberated, look grateful!'.
With Iraq, you have a country with a hell of a lot of people with guns, who have both been fed a complete string of lies, half-truths and exaggerations about each other, not a good situation to be in. I remember when I worked for the Police, one of the Anti-Terrorist squad was shown a Video with a mock IRA attack. The vehicle used was a white transit van. The next day, the Terrorist squad were stop-searching all White Transit Vans, just in case one of them held terrorists. It's the same assumptions being made here in a way
America has been applying it's internal politics to the world stage of late, that is the problem. As usual, the American government decided to call in only experts who would say what they wanted to hear, and thinking the world would be ok with that. Or rather, expecting their own people to accept their word without question.
It's like our own troops allegedly gunning down innocent people. I find it hard to believe of my own army, who I have a lot of respect for, but if it has happened, then I must accept that.
However, that said, I'm waiting on my decisions, Rumsfield has already made it clear he knew about the nakedness, the humiliation and the dietary changes. I have a feeling that if direct orders to torture the prisoners are going to come to the public eye, it will be within the next couple of weeks. If I see those, then I think the whole world will have a long hard think, and, sadly enough, some of the world will judge ALL Americans on it, partly because they will be told all Americans are like it, partly because they want to believe it.
It's a pity really, as I've said before America is founded on good principles, which have been twisted by certain people, and, as they say, the Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions
