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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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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 08:05 PM

    mywhycha

    I am totally with you in what you say. I have no sympathy for Graner beyond the fact that he is imprisoned alone, when his immediate superiors should be with him. When I was a platoon leader, I can remember getting jacked up when one of my people didn't have the correct items in the duffel bag for deployment: I cannot imagine having one of my sergeants torturing people and me getting off scot free. What bullshit not that he is being punished but that he is being punished alone. Those of his superiors who violated their oath as well disgust me far more than him.

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