It's becoming clear that the soldiers currently taking the heat for the Abu Grabe scandal weren't acting wholly on their own initiative. This photo shows a number of psy-ops guys standing around a collapsed prisoner, along with a translator and one of the soldiers being court martialed.
It's important that these soldiers still receive harsh penalties, in order to underscore for future US soldiers (and the rest of the world) that we don't accept "just following orders" as an excuse when it comes to war crimes. But it's looking like this activity was actively endorsed higher up the chain, and at the very least tacitly endorsed all the way up to at least Cheney and Rumsfeld. (There's technically one step above them, of course).
Feh.
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