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and the grotesque pictures seen all over the world did more damage to America's reputation than the initial invasion. These were the people bringing the American version of democracy to Iraq! Lynndie England is as "thick as a plank", easily-led and devoid of any moral sense. Her low intelligence, her lack of conscience and her infatuation with an amoral man made her utterly unsuitable for any position of authority over the lives of other human beings. The "We were only obeying orders" excuse isn't even original, as it was flogged to death (metaphorically in the particular circumstances) at the Nurenberg Trials in post-war Germany by the odious guards of the concentration camps. The pictures of their American equivalent in Abu-Ghraib show that this particular bunch of "scum of the earth" was having a high old time, enjoying every moment of the degradation and cruelty their twisted minds could devise to inflict on those in their power.
Let Charles Graner stay in prison until he has purged his soul of its ugliness. So, he's deprived of mental and physical stimulation having heaped an excess of it on the men he tortured! This article is designed to elicit pity for Mr. Graner, the product of a family now casting the warped bully as victim. Let him serve his sentence and attempt to join the human race for the first time in his life when he's released. He should read the Geneva Conventions, for starters, as they govern the status and treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime. Redemption can be achieved by the truly contrite but all this grizzling about his incarceration implies that Charles Graner, his family, and his apologists are far from reaching that conclusion.
