Comforting my bubblegum!... It's only "comforting" insofar as the low regard in which so many of the troops keep the Iraqis explains (at least in part) the 150k-600k kill-err, liberated Iraqi civilians...

As for attitude towards torture, this is completely and utterly unsurprising, seeing as how a large chunk of our fellow American orgahs (civilian and/or (ex-)military) explained clearly a few months ago that they don't consider waterboarding and sensory deprivation as torture, and besides, those filthy terrorists have no rights anyway.

Just goes to show that some people's "normal" is other people's "unacceptable", and that we all hold vastly different opinions - even on matters of life and death. We're all very, very different.