On my way to work this morning, I heard a Vietnam-era veteran call into a radio show, stating that the abuse pictures from Iraq and the whole scandal was "being blown way out of proportion," and that "Americans have been abused in wars before, too, so it's not like this is anything new." Holy crap. I will defer to Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram as to why these horrific abuses occur, but as far as the situation being overblown, get off it. What happened at that prison is unexcusable, and, as the people who pay for W.'s phony war, we MUST make a big deal out of this abuse. We must demand to see how bad it really was, and must judge best then how to deal with it. It's a shame that it took showing the really ugly side of the U.S. occupation (as though blowing Baghdad and a score of other Iraqi cities to bits, being told that WMDs were abundant, acting without the support of the United Nations and our allies weren't bad enough) finally to have people thinking beyond the "war on terror" and thinking about acts of war.