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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.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 06:15 AM

    Sociopath

    I agree with some of the other posters here that solitary confinement is a serious matter and that Graner probably did not get thrown in repeatedly for trivial offenses like leaving the soap in the shower. In fact his whining in this regard seems almost comical.

    The fact is that going to war did not all of sudden turn Charles Graner into a grinning sociopath. As the record shows, he was a bad guy long before he ever set foot in Iraq and putting him at Abu Ghraib only brought out the worst of his already sadistic tendencies.

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