But we're better than Saddam! Aren't we?

Read this about the wholesale abuse of prisoners in Iraq (no, not just Abu Graib), and what happens when someone tries to tell people what is happening, and why.

But then, why should they treat Iraqi prisoners like human beings?

It's not like they treat American prisoners humanely. (Note, if you saw the reports on the missing Australian who turned out to have been arrested the night before Katrina, you have already heard some of these stories. That this is only receiving coverage in America now says something. I'm not sure what it says, but it is definitely said.)