It may have cost us an early withdrawl from Iraq. The initial reports were first made by the military that offenses to human rights had occurred at the prison. This was about 9 months after the invasion in January. In April 60 minutes made the story widely known to the public.
When the Iraqi people saw these it went from a very horrible and inconvient occupation by forces that should be making our life better to we are being invaded by tyrants. Public opinion of the American occupation had a massive shift toward our removal from the the country in both the American and Iraqi. This compounded with massive administrative and legislative decisions made about the same time led to the next several years of conflict.
The reasons for this are seated mostly in Islamic tradition and mostly because a woman was centrally featured. The fact that there are numerous pictures of Iraqis being paraded around naked would offend just about any culture, but uniquely the Islamic ones. To tell the truth anything where a person is being dragged around on a leash by a soldier would likely send any culture into outrage. I wouldn't be surprised if pictures of that featuring American victims taken by North Koreans or Iranians wouldn't result in an immediate warcry from the vast majority of us. The fact that it was a woman only increases the reasons why Iraq was exceptionally angered by this.
Read other answers by Jon Davis on Quora:
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