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• Monday, December 1, 2008 11:23 PM

  @naphini

  "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."

  I see. So, you're fine with Bush pardoning him, paying him off, and then they start the whole business up again in a few years, the next time they're in power, and Elliott Abrams, fresh with a new handful of pardons, can start torturing human beings in some fresh hell hole?

  You see, without the threat of execution, these people just clam up, and their guilty superiors are never brought to justice, simply because they can let him out and pay him. It's not complicated.

  A few years for a few million bucks? Piece of cake. More money than he'd ever get with an honest job. But execution? Hard to pardon a guy after he's dead.

  If there was any real threat to do that to Graner, he'd turn on his superiors in a heartbeat.

  As for Graner not committing murder, I just think they've covered up the exterminations committed at Abu Ghraib. They've worked hard to convince us that years of systematic torture was contained in that small handful of photographs we saw.

  When you think about it for a moment, that's nonsense, isn't it?

  I think Graner and his superiors, going all the way up to Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld, are guilty of quite a few murders in their torture chambers.

  I mean, that's the sort of place they ran, and it was anything but accidental.

  By the way, Guantanamo is an extermination camp as well, and it's only your need to believe that the United States is inherently good that's keeping you from realizing it.

  —Thadeus Crumb Read Thadeus Crumb's other letters
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