Sorry guys, but there are enough other reports of religion-based torture techniques that the "retraction" comes out pretty thin. Even one of the right's favorite urban legends - the one about Pershing dousing Muslims with pig blood - is religion-based torture (
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.htm). Hmm. Now the ***** has hit the fan, and you try to blame it on the media? Priceless!
Face it, to the rest of the world, the US, the military, and particularly it's president, look like the biggest *******s right now. Write it off as 'pranks' all you want, but the rest of the world takes this stuff seriously. With each passing day, and each human rights violation, this is looking more like the Crusades for Oil and less like (insert list of Bush lies about the reason for the war here).