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have been maimed or killed directly because of the actions of Graner and those who sanctioned him and his immediate cohort? How much more indelible and recursively actionable the hatred of us? The upshot of his behavior indisputably extends far beyond a simple abstract sullying of our national moral character. It can be enumerated via an elevated trail of permanently broken bodies and corpses. Charles Graner, his colleagues, and their superiors all have the blood of countless Americans and innocent Iraqis on their hands.