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1. Charles Graner deserves to be in prison, in some fashion.
2. Those in the administration, from Bush through Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, all of them right from the inception of the torture-is-acceptable policies need to be held accountable.
3. Charle's Graner's mode of incarceration seems to have elements of overkill that do resemble the more benign end of the system exercised on prisoners at Abu Ghraib. It is excessive and unnecessary.
4. He is unequivocally a scapegoat, even though a guilty one.
Making prison life easier or non-existent for Graner is not the issue. Punishing those who were truly responsible for this deplorable stain on our nation's integrity and honor should be an issue. And while we can't afford a full-out assault on these people given other priorities, they should not be allowed to skip scott-free into their big book deals and reconstructed memoirs.
