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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

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 07:31 AM

    GEE, HAS GRANER'S FAMILY BEEN AWAY OR SOMETHING?

    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.

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