After reading news items on the Iraq situation, I realized that the words I used in this post were too harsh. There is still much to learn here, but it looks like more a case of hazing than actual torture, though I am not attempting to justify it by any means. It was flat out wrong to do those acts, but it doesn't seem to rise to the level of torture, at least in the sense of inflicting physical injury or pain. Of course, we still have a lot to learn about what happened.