The infamous Abu Ghraib prison photos (warning: the link is to the photos themselves) are so blatantly wrong and a badly timed self-inflicted blow for the Americans and British in Iraq. Rumsfield needs to resign over this - that's where the buck stops, after all. But that said one bigger question needs to be asked: why the hell were these soldiers taking photographs of their handy-work? The stupidity of it defies belief. Were they looking to take keepsakes home to show Ma and Pa what they did in the war? Did they want to prove what good work they were doing? That these people, who no doubt went to Iraq to serve their country, have instead destroyed their lives and sullied their country instead. It re-enforces Conrad's point that sending reservists into a combat zone has done more harm than good.