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Excellent points.
I'm of the opinion that people like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were convinced that their official sanctioning of torture would be approved of/defended by the vast majority of the American people precisely because of the fact that they've been so indifferent to the ballooning of the prison-industrial complex in the USA over the past 25 years, along with the inevitable increase in brutalities inflicted on the imprisoned.
And, after all, who's to say that they're wrong? The jury is still out as to whether the majority of Americans care that much about the existence of brutality and inhumane prison conditions.
Charles Graner is a designated scapegoat, plain and simple. Guilty, but still a scapegoat. Intended as fodder for future histories of the era, as in "the ringleader of the abusers was found guilty and sentenced to Federal prison- nothing more to see here- move on."
