Robert Fisk: An Illegal and Immoral War

Robert Fisk: An Illegal and Immoral War: "We are not just talking 'sick' here. We're talking professionals. President Bush at last apologised yesterday to the Arab world for this filth--only, no doubt, because of the latest picture on the front of The Washington Post--but the constant, insistent refrain from US officers that these were a tiny group of unrepresentative Americans makes me very suspicious.
Lynndie and her boyfriend were not part of a 'rogue' unit. They were told to do these despicable things. They were encouraged. This was an order from someone. Who? When can we see their pictures, their identity, their passports, their orders?
Yes, it's part of a culture, a long tradition that goes back to the Crusades; that the Muslim is dirty, lascivious, unChristian, unworthy of humanity--which is pretty much what Osama bin Laden (now forgotten by Mr Bush, I notice) believes about us Westerners. And our illegal, immoral, meretricious war has now brought forth the images that betray our racism."