Desicrating The Koran

Muslims through out the Middle East are once again outraged, this time about US interigators allegedly desicrating the Koran. President Bush claims their is an investigation into the matter.
An investigation? Am I missing something, is it a war crime to desicrate a holy book? Is this approaching torture?

We should definitely exploit the cultural weaknesses of the enemy enemy during interrogations. To say that this is crossing the line is ridiculous, anyone ever arrested in the US know that the police try all sorts of tactics to break suspected criminals. In a past life I to was a "suspected criminal" and I was forced to stand in a booth all night so when they questioned me I was tired and my mind could not process information quickly. I am sure everyone has heard of good-cop bad-cop, this is another psychological ploy cops use to extract information.

Perfectly legal in my book. Furthermore if we are not exploiting the enemy's weaknesses, such as having female interrogators, desicrating the Koran, etc... then we are not doing our job.
While it is true that we are not in a war with Islam, the people at war with us are all islamic. I do believe that we should definitely keep information like that private because it is bad PR.

We are in a real war that we could definitely lose, we need to win first and PR second. It seems that in Vietnam we became concerned with PR more than winning and as a result we lost (at least politically). If the sane bunch of the Arab world is more concerned with the US desicrating the Koran than they are with a small portion of their population attacking innocent muslims in Iraq as well as other attacks across the globe than that is a powerful statement in itself. Personally I do not believe the majority of the Muslim world is fixated on Guantanamo Bay. It is the small minority of extremists who lick their chops for a chance to protest the great satan. It is really sad to see people without freedom, power, money, or a future be manipulated into such trivial issues.

For all of the hysteria about the US turning in to a theocracy buring a bible will not land someone in jail while in the Middle East they want authors who question the Koran executed. This is their issue, we cannot constantly make concessions that we do not accept as legitimate in our county, such as it is illegal to burn a holy book.