MidEast Report

Sunday, May 09, 2004

ABU GHRAIB, cont'd
In trying to figure out what could lead American soldiers to disgrace themselves so completely as those who committed the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, it occurs to me that those soldiers probably had images of 9/11 dancing through their heads as they committed their crimes, and may have seen themselves as "taking revenge" in some respect. After all, some 60% of the American public still (still!) believes that Iraq was involved with the 9/11 attacks, and Bush and Cheney haven't done much to disturb that mistaken belief.