The mind is the most complex but fascinating feature of human beings. While our minds are the primary source of love, care, and goodness, they are also capable of perpetuating hatred, abuse, and evil toward others. Abu Ghraib, a city in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, is notoriously known for horrific incidents of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers in 2004. Although the events occurred 10 years ago, the events continue to reflect on our minds as we ask ourselves, "How were they able to do those things?" There are many theories regarding the cause of the Abu Ghraib accident. After analyzing the arguments, theories, and explanations of Robert Tolmach Lakoff, Dianne Benscoter, Tara Mcklevy, and Phillip Zimbardo, I have aligned myself with a combination of factors that offer an explanation of how "good" soldiers became "bad." of soldiers at war allows their mind to conform to acts of hostility towards the "enemy". When one decides to become a soldier, he or she not only accepts the duties of a soldier, but he or she accepts the fact that he or she is far from everyone and everything he or she once knew. Their normal environment of family, friends, daily work and other people and activities that make up a comfortable environment suddenly disappears as they are greeted by a cold, harsh and lonely environment when they enter the war zone. When their means of comfort are stripped from them, they are left in a vulnerable state of mind, seeking any kind of comfort in the present environment and being more likely to succumb to the domination of others. Dianne Benscoter illustrates this “foundation” of being susceptible to control with her own personal experiences in her lecture, “Like the cult…middle of the paper…soldiers must “follow orders,” with no questions asked. Rather than showing apathetic neglect towards the enemy, this atrocious event reveals the desperate attempt by vulnerable soldiers to persuade themselves that they were not in Iraq to kill or torture human beings; of Abu Ghraib is an unfortunate and horrific event that still plagues American society today. Fortunately, theories, explanations, and arguments have given us insight into “how” and “why” these abominable acts are committed response, we must learn how to prevent this from happening again. To prevent this evil act from happening again, we must act against military techniques of dehumanization and deindividualization, since indifference and contempt often cause far more suffering than outright antipathy...