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I mean, did they miss the news for about 6 months and not see the photos? The so-called "orders from the top" defense doesn't hack it. No one from "the top" has show us anything that bears that out, although we are suspicious, and rightly so.
It's too bad that Graner and others may have gotten swept up in this cess pool of a war that wasn't even necessary. By now, Saddam Hussein would have crashed and burned under the weight of his own mess. But that's how war is. it's not tidy and it's not neat and it's not always clear.
No one told them to pose the prisons and take Kodak memories with them like they were dead deer on Thanksgiving day.