"(with Rumsfield) no fair minded person, I believe, thinks he condones such behaviour"

Why would the the current US administration bother to set up Guantanamo, for the express purpose of circumventing US human rights laws, if it was not to condone this kind of behavior and avoid scruitiny?

The telling thing regarding the Iraqi pictures, is that the pictures were taken in the first place. It indicates that those involved, obviously believed that the pictures would, be not only socially acceptable to their peers, (thumbs up) but acceptable to those of higher authority as well.

The whole fiasco is tragic, including the fact that the lower ranks of the service people, who were involved, are going to be made the primary scapegoats for the whole situation.