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The Iraquis wouldn't think twice about doing humiliating things to our men as their prisoners. In a sense those guards aren't doing anything that the other side wouldn't do.
BUT --- and I mean a big BUT ---
We should be above that kind of behavior. Just because someone is a jerk or bully doesn't mean you bully back. You show some integrity and pride in yourself not to lower yourself to their level. No matter you what you should do what you would want done to you whether they would do it or not. If we just lower the bar everytime someone else does something low then eventually we are behaving no better than rabid animals.
I hope the guards are dealt with fairly and properly. They obviously have some emotional/psychological problems, probably exacerbated by the experience of war. What they did was low and it should not happen again.
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"Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama
My Karma just ran over your Dogma. 
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