What a bunch of fucknuts

Who's the genius who thought this strategy would work? It's a war crime. It also sounds like something that Bush & Cheney would dream up:

Documents Show Army Seized Wives as Tactic

The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show...

I'm guessing it is many more than that. So how much of a relationship is there between the holding of Jill Carroll and the demand that women prisoners be released by her kidnappers and this policy?