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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 07:49 PM

    @Thadeus

    But he isn't worth nothing. When you say so you negate the whole reason to object to torture in the first place, which undermines not only your entire point, but also all of humanistic morality. If this guy can be used as a means to an end (setting an example, as you say), because he did something bad, then so may the 'actual bad guys' held at Abu Ghraib be tortured or killed as a means to an end... which, in fact, they were. This guy is in prison for doing it to them. What you've got there is an animal eating its own legs.

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