Betrayal.

Regarding the reports of prisoner abuse in Iraq, the complete text of the investigation of which has been made public, and about which blogger Bill Cork has some insightful commentary . . . I hope they take every single person complicit in the affair, from the top all the way to the bottom of the ranks, and throw the book at them.

I was 100% behind the liberation of Iraq and regarded it as completely justified. Those photographs spell the complete betrayal of democracy and the very intent of the mission itself; if every Arab regarded our government's promises with skepticism before, they certainly have a right to do so now.

If we "lose" the war -- and by that I mean if Iraq decides to exchange a representative democracy for some kind of Islamic totalitarian rule after the Taliban -- we will have ourselves to blame.

Completely, utterly disgusted and sickened.