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Graner came to the MP with a long, established, ugly record of racist, cruel and bullying behavior as a PA corrections officer. I admire the inherent decency of one of the earlier posters, but I heartily disagree with him or her, and I do believe that Graner enjoyed every minute of what he did at Abu Ghraib. The photos belie any presumption of alleged "coercion" or "order-following" on Graner's behalf. The point of the article is not whether others should be held responsible -- his superiors (up to and incl WH-OSC and DOD) clearly should be. But "sympathy for Graner" (or Sabrina Harman, that beneficiary of Errol Morris's whitewash)? No. Never. They got their jollies. They humiliated and they tortured and they killed with patent glee. They shamed their fellow service members. They acted -- in OUR names -- in the most filthy, reprehensible manner. Never.
My sympathies lie with their victims. Sorry I haven't enough to share with the perpetrators.
