Nutcracker - What I am trying to say is that polls can be almost completely meaningless. Iraq is clearly a factionalised country and some groups of society are going to be very happy with Saddam's trial. Others are not and what remains to be seen is if any government can actually unite the quite different religious groupings. The poll is a snapshot of opinion - there will undoutedly be dark days ahead for Iraq followed hopefully by peace.
All this does get rather away from the Doctor - however in his case whether he is right or wrong remains to be seen .Either
way it can do he military no harm to show that it's members can think and consider their actions. Far better that then more pictures of staged abuse that makes the Army sink lower in the esteem and reflects on the whole of the Armed Forces.