What Do We Not Get?

We are shouting from the roof tops about Sadaam Hussein being on trial for all of the atrocities he committed over the years, yet we're still hearing Guantanamo stories and now this!

The American military and the Afghan government say they are investigating allegations that U.S. soldiers burned the bodies of killed Taliban fighters.

The U.S. military said Thursday it found the claims 'repugnant' and would investigate an Australian television report in which they were first made.

A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai added that his government had launched its own probe into the alleged desecration.

'We strongly condemn any disrespect to human bodies regardless of whether they are those of enemies or friends,' spokesman Karim Rahimi told The Associated Press.

Australia's SBS television network broadcast footage Wednesday showing purported U.S. soldiers standing by the burning corpses of two suspected Taliban fighters with their bodies laid out facing Mecca.

The footage includes a propaganda message taunting Taliban fighters to retrieve their dead and fight. The footage was filmed in the hills outside the southern village of Gonbaz near the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, AP said.

I also heard, on Democracy Now, that this was shown on TV there and was a threat/taunt to other Taliban rebels. What synapses aren't clicking here? Why have our soldiers not been told that, even if they were doing it before, they can't do it now? Along with everything else the Bush Administration does or condones, this is absurd! Our global image will be mud for generations.