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Sympathy for Charles Graner

No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 10:57 AM

    Who IS at fault in this issue?

    This man would not be acceptable in the Military of most nations. Not with HIS record? They are not that hard up. I was on a night exercise in Germany as a Platoon leader and came up on a group of German guys in the woods, who were having a good time with a quite happy German female. There were some of my men who would have accepted the gracious invitation to join in. They were far from home and muchly in need no doubt. I ordered then to leave at once. I did not feel at risk. You instinctively know in the service what the values are. Graner knew e was OK to do what he did. It was almost a national 'given' to be ruthless as a nation at the time. Get over it. Glad to have your return to sanity. When I wrote against Neal Boortz who advocated 'torture' as they were not in uniform, got 7000 of his Georgian worshippers to engage my site and bombard me with emails. Google 'patrick lockyer' to see my article on American Chronicle. Oh the good ole days.

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