Oh, and by the way, the decapitation event was horrible and sick, no matter how you look at it. However, it is impossible to draw fair comparisons. For one, who are the guys who did this? Some sort of radical religious group? Some guys pissed we invaded their country? clearly not the common rank and file Iraqui citizen. Fucking nutjobs... yeah we've got plenty of them here in the us. People get killed in a variety of not so plesant ways everyday. And it is a horrible horrible thing. The difference is, they are sick and twisted, just like the fuckers in Iraq. We make a big deal out of these pictures and events cause these are US soldiers, masquerading under the guise of fighting for justice and freedom. These are the folks who are supposed to protect others from being treated like this. This wasn't some sort of interrogation process, obviously, hell I'd have been reasonably ok with this if it was. This is just some guys having a good old time. Not sickos, or twisted demented nut jobs, just grade A caliber US soldiers looking to get their rocks off at the expense of another human being they view as shittier than them.
Regardless of whether you hate bush or not, liberal or conservative, this is just plain wrong, in any given situation. I honestly don't even know why we're debating this fact.