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Is anyone really surprised at the treatment/mistreatment of Charles Graner? He's obviously being kept incommunicado by his detainers until Dubya and his coterie and clique of war criminals is out of the building. All one has to do is to remember that old adage about sh*t running downhill to understand why he is the designated fall-guy.
Under a just resolution of the horrors of Abu Ghraib, et al, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the conspiritors would be before a military tribunal or a civilian court at The Hague being tried on war crimes. THAT ain't gonna happen, however, so look for Charles Graner to remain right where he is...until after Bush's term expires. (Bush may commute his sentence as he's going out the door, but, he probably will not exonerate him.)
I'm sure that in the future, Charles Graner, and others, will write tell-all books enumerating the number and names of their superiors who not only encouraged their incivility but required it. Hopefully, justice will prevail...eventually.
