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I started to read this article but stopped before finishing page one.
Why should anyone sympathize with Graner? Because everyone else got away with it? Instead of sypathizing, why not round up everyone else? Why not seek new charges against those who got away so easily? Does he really find himself in the position as those he tortured? He is being stripped naked and humiliated? I doubt it.
What he really needs is to come to grips with the role his actions have played in the recruitment of those who have since killed his fellow servicemen. He needs to consider on what little basis the men he tortured were detained. He needs to appreciate that, while very few American servicemen in Iraq acted so disgracefully towards the Iraqi people, he and his cohorts did. They chose to. Then maybe he wouldn't think ten years was too much.
