Perspective

From the mouth of babes, a noble Iraqi in this case:

DHIA AL-SHWEIRI spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He said in Najaf yesterday he preferred Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped by his U.S. guards

Obviously they have different norms over there in Iraq. I'm not in any way trying to condone the recent actions of some renegade elements of the US military, but seriously, "the torture was better than the humiliation?".

Of course, this guy has some other problems to work out:

"They wanted us to feel as though we were women ... and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman."

I'm sure that female Iraqis can't wait until the Americans leave and people like this guy take over the country.