Letters to the Editor
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You didn't hear me call any Marine a liar. Now, as for L.W.M. ...
Quite true, and detainees were held (detained) and interrogated in places other that Abu Grhaib, so that Marine he called a liar need not even have been there. But the fact remains, there were many units detached to and stationed at Abu Ghraib from many branches of the military.
-- L.W.M.
I didn't call that Marine a liar. I said (quite correctly) that Marines were not among the units charged with improprieties at Abu Ghraib, which the article, through some very bad writing, appeared to conflate into one big mass atrocity. The perpetrators of the Abu Ghraib photographic atrocity have been court-martialed. Essentially, I defended that Marine from more than any of you did.
Lots of liberals like to mock the slack-jawed yokels who think that Saddam Hussein's Iraq orchestrated the 9/11 attacks.
Personally, I like to mock the liberal ideologues who now think that John Yoo orchestrated the activities for which Spc. Graner and Pfc. England were court-martialed. Even Graner and England never claimed to be "interrogating" anybody. They certainly never read any memos or instructions from John Yoo, no matter how active Glenn Greenwald's imagination might be.
Last I checked, John Yoo never wrote any memos instructing Army reservists on what to do when they are just messin' around. Oh, and I don't think Professor Yoo is the father of Lynndie England's bastard son, either.