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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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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 09:00 PM

    Sympathy for Charles Graner

    If Donald Rumsfeld, and others in Graner's chain of command, had been prosecuted and imprisoned, which clearly should have happened, I would not feel too much sympathy. This has not been the case and it seems most unlikely that this will happen now.

    I suggest that, considering the harshness of his confinement, simple fairness would now requires some relief.

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