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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 06:53 AM

    After I'd written earlier, I read an extensive article in "The Washington Post", dated around the time Mr. Graner was very much news

    He didn't wait to go to Iraq to show what an unspeakably cruel man he is. He was a prison guard in Pennsylvania and was accused by a prisoner, convicted of burglary, of putting a razor blade in his food. Graner is also a wife-batterer and an ogre to his children. Like all bullies, he's a coward at heart so it's not in the least surprising that he's now looking for sympathy for himself and that his latest wife (not Ms. England, mother of one of his children) has set up a website pleading for clemency for her delightful husband, Charles Graner. The man is a barbarian and that's that.

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