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• Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:07 PM

  I Don't Know What Sympathy Is...

  After reading this ridiculous piece of writing I was looking forward to writing a brilliant letter about how the actions of one Charles Graner were not related in any way with the actions of his superiors. But I need not do so as my predecessors here have already admirably pointed out the folly of this story and of this man.

  That he clearly either obeyed an unlawful order or that he has exhibited behavior no better than your local gang banger shows conclusively that he is deserving of whatever angst or pain he is currently enduring. How do we ask innocent individuals in Guantanamo to endure what we are giving to them if we do not with the same equivalence hold our own innocents to the same flame of idiocy and judgement??

  The fact that the perpatrators of this inanity remain unpunished is apparently for the gods or perhaps the history books to resolve. But in no case does their escape from this pile of excresence dismiss or otherwise mitigate the inhuman and sad things that Charles Graner did.

  And is it just me, or have I noticed a complete lack of understanding on his part of why what he did is so reprehensible- notwithstanding anything else whatsoever. His life sucks because he did things that were inhuman and pathetic- and he had the good fortune and the ability to say: NO!!! (Unlike the prisoners in his care...)

  So here I say NO!!! To Mr. Graner- and those who would do what you did: I do not accept your actions, and if I were so unfortunate as to have been in your shoes in Abu Ghraib I can only hope that I would have done better. And if I did not do better I can only hope that I would be more graceful or less pathetic in my own downfall.

  Mr. Graner please go away- somewhere along this collective journey of ours I lost the ability to care about you or your life. You are a reminder of why otherwise good Americans cannot always be trusted to make important decisions- and this saddens me greatly. You are also a reminder in far to vivid detail of the inability of Americans in today's world to take and assume responsibility for thier actions. In sum you are an embarassment, and this article does nothing to further your cause. (Except perhaps to make you look like a hapless victim- which I do not believe you to be.)

  I guess I did have something to say after all...

  Cheers!!

  dce

  —wonkazoo Read wonkazoo's other letters
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