This would be the funniest thing in the world were it not so pathetic: one of the American soldiers charged with subjecting Iraqi prisoners to torture offers as an excuse that he wasn't sufficiently trained.

Was he expecting his sergeant (or whoever the heck he was reporting to) to conduct a class and say:

1. You should not parade your wards naked and ask them to perform sexual acts on each other.

2. You should not write dirty things on their naked bodies.

3. You should not ask them to form a (naked) human pyramid.

4. You should not allow a juvenile prisoner to be raped by one of your colleagues and capture this act on film.

If he really did expect to be told these things, I have a bridge to sell him...