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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 06:05 PM

    Torture Is A War Crime

    I am furious that the Administration officials who instigated war crimes as United States "policy" remain uncharged, brazen and freely rewriting history as we speak. Many citizens hope that President Obama's deep intellect will come to the conclusion that these American War Crimes cannot be swept under the rug without damaging our nation itself. If our own elected officials cannot find the spine to do the right thing, 'rendition' them all to the Hague for international war crimes trials.

    Charles Graner seemed to enjoy his job. I don't feel much sympathy for him because he is still imprisoned, but do feel that no one should be in solitary for so long. Prisoners should be treated as human beings, no matter what they have done. We are supposed to be better than that.

    I wonder about his parents. Why didn't they report these monstrous crimes when they saw them with their own eyes? Could they not have sent some of those photos, without their son's likeness, to the media? How could they read Graner's accompanying reports of such horror and let it continue?

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