The sense deprivation of ineffective techniques which were a mish-mosh of every conceivable study on Earth since humans were able to 'set type.' The detainees at Gitmo were guinea pigs to Rumsfelds' 'dreamscape' of breaking down hardened terrorists. These detainees were on many occassions people whom had nothing to do with al Qaeda or terrorism but were sold to the USA military by warlords for rewards.
The latest speculation inside the World Bank revolves around how long it will be before investigators come knocking on Wolfowitz's newly reinforced doors to quiz him about the Iraq debacle, Abu Ghraib, Plamegate, and other scandals.
The least of all the damages to the USA was not simply it's international esteem as a leader in freedom and democracy, but, the damages to it's own soldiers manifested in lost limbs, lives deemed worthless by many veterans outside the 'juice' of war. "I lost one leg and they gave me another, why not have a matching set?" That is a demoralized soldier that sees life as a battlefield where a damaged body has value not readily found in the society back home. Add to that the brain damage in concussion incidents of improvised devices of nearly every kind imaginable. The USA veteran out of Iraq might be alive, but, returned to a demoralized value of self including PTSD resulting in suicide met by VA waiting lists and homelessness if we as a nation were lucky to have them alive long enough to 'get past' a mind full of violence.
