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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.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 08:16 AM

    elephant

    you wrote:

    I fully expect that if Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had had in mind a special operation to abuse prisoners for potential intel, they wouldn't have entrusted it to a crew as woefully incompetent as Graner's pathetic unit of reservist janitors and sometime prison guards.

    having watched this clownish administration for the last 8 years, they are exactly who i would expect it entrusted to...heck of a job, elephant!

    —patg Read patg's other letters

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