"The Red Cross disclosed that it had been warning American officials of WIDES[P]READ (not isolated incidents) of prisoner abuse for much of 2003 to no avail"

What part of that didn't YOU understand? You seem to like misrepresenting things. The Red Cross report for your information was ABOUT detainees in particular and specifically ABOUT Abu Ghraib not about the U.S. forces in general as YOU are implying. No one ever said that, numbnuts. You are implying it to suit your own agenda.

And the entire point of even discussing that was in the fact that, despite the Red Cross report nothing was ever done about it until those infamous pictures were leaked to the media.

I dunoo. what kind of hate filled lunatic are you anyways? How do you interpret being for the Geneva Conventions and against the kind of torture we saw in the photos as being against all the troops in Iraq? Must one approve of such acts to be "for the troops" in your book?

Jackass.