Via Drudge--the Washington Post is about to release some new photos of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners of war. Drudge says:

The pictures obtained by The Post include shots of soldiers simulating sexually explicit acts with one another and shots of a cow being skinned and gutted and soldiers posing with its severed head. There are also dozens of pictures of a cat's severed head....Other photographs show wounded men and dead bodies. In one, a dead man is lying in the back of a truck, his shirt, face and left arm covered in blood. His right arm is missing. Another photograph shows a dead body, gray and decomposing. A young soldier is leaning over the corpse, smiling broadly and giving the "thumbs-up" sign.

And in another picture a young woman lifts her shirt, exposing her breasts. She is wearing a white band with numbers on her wrist, but it is unclear if she is a prisoner. Another photograph of a naked man with a dark hood over his head, handcuffed to a cell door. And another of a naked man handcuffed to a bunk bed, his arms splayed so wide that his back is arched... A picture shows a soldier holding a leash tied around a naked man's neck in an Iraqi prison....

That's SPC Lynndie England in the photo with the soldier on the leash. And in other photos with naked Iraqi prisoners. Her family's reaction: She's being picked on. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The family is even attacking President Bush:

Goin and Klinestiver said the family is furious with the comments of President Bush, who said he was "disgusted" by the photographs. "He doesn't know what these guys are going through," Klinestiver said. Referring to Bush's limited National Guard service during the Vietnam War, he added, "How can you make decisions for our military unless you've served yourself?"

Come on, you don't have to go to war to know what human decency means.

Update: You can view the new Washington Post photos here. [link now fixed]