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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

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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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 07:03 AM

    I suspect at Graner's next parole hearing this article and the quote therein will be used against him ...

    and he will then be the victim of Salon and Mark Benjamin ...

    His leadership ruined the careers of all of his co-workers ... that's a lot of heartache ... and a lot of military training and effort down the drain ...

    He was self-centered in using his unit to "please the (even bigger) big boys" then ... and he remains utterly self-centered now...

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