While the ultimate responsibility for this mess lies squarely at the feet of Donald Rumsfeld it is by no means a problem of his creation. Those "soldiers" in the photos claim they are being set up and that they were just reluctantly following orders. Lets look at their defenition of "reluctantly following orders.
-In all the photo's PFC England is seen as smiling as though what she's doing is funny including the one where she's pointing at an Iraqi man's genitals and laughing.
-Or how bout the one where England is seen in front of a pile of naked Iraqi's with a big wide grin on her face with her buddy standing behind like he's "the s***".
I give the "soldiers" in question most of the blame for this mess because they knew damn well that what they were doing was wrong, so what did they do? Did they report it? Did they refuse to obey? Nope, they made a big joke out of it and took photos for the folks back home to see. They looked like they were enjoying themselves pretty well and now they are crying about being scapegoats. That isint gonna fly with me or too many other folks outside their own families.
There was one soldier who had some integrity and reported it to the CID and that's why the abusers are being punished and we're having this whole conversation.