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I think that after hearing the descriptions of what is being done to Graner, the people who have written here on this board that he is getting exactly what he deserves, that torturing him is just fine and dandy with them because of what he did, are using the same logic that our wonderful Administration used in torturing the prisoners at Abu Gharib. Let's face it, the reason that Graner is still in prison is that the people who were really responsible for Abu Ghraib have managed to slip quietly under the presses radar (Donald Rumsfeld for instance) and don't want to be bothered now that they are there.
I notice that one of you said that Graner deserves to be in prison because he was in charge of his unit, yet the person who said that made no reference to the fact the the real leaders of the operation, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Yoo, and others are probably going to get away scott free. They will get away with it all unless we demand from the Obama Administration that the people on the top be prosecuted. So let's put aside our outrage at what Graner did, and stop stupidly blaming him for carrying out the orders he was given, and go after the people who gave the orders.
