This news of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and mistreated really doesn't come as a surprise to me. It was only a matter of whether it would be leaked out to the public or covered up. The Bush administration had to stir up a storm of racial propaganda to be able to try to justify this war. I'm not sure if this is just something that one has to accept as an inevitable externality of war. These acts could've been fueled by racism or perhaps anger and grief over the death of fellow comrades.