The man deserves it.
"Sivits told a court-martial he saw Frederick punching an inmate so hard that everyone present feared the man was having a heart attack."
"I knew it was wrong at the time because I knew it was a form of abuse."
There are no mitigating circumstances. Even if the reservists responsible for prisoners were not trained in proper handling of detainees,common sense and common decency should tell them that what happened at Abu Grahib was a disgrace to a decent nation.
We will never know how many arabs decided to take up arms against America as a result of seeing these abuses of their fellow moslems,but one thing is for certain - the ugly mob that was put in charge of these detainees did absolutely nothing for peace or justice.8 years is a cheap price to pay,I'd sooner see them handed over to a war crimes tribuneral.