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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.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 10:16 AM

    The buck stops . . . where?

    63 years after the end of WW II, people still debate the degree of culpability of the "average German citizen" for the horrors perpetrated by their leaders.

    In the years ahead, will we so judged, as well? Will it require an international tribunal to try our war criminals, because we lack the moral fortitude to do it ourselves?

    Of course "We just want to put the whole thing behind us." So did the good citizens of Germany after the War. Should we be allowed to do so? NO!

    —galt1208 Read galt1208's other letters

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