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Lynndie England: Life After Abu Ghraib
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Lynndie England: Life After Abu Ghraib |
01/05/09
Ahh, Brit humor...
She's right, though. If only she'd been able to rape and kill a few civilians, sans camera, or raid some houses harboring suspected terrorists, she'd have gotten off scot free.
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Conclusion 19: The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 was not simply the result of a few soldiers acting on their own. Interrogation techniques such as stripping detainees of their clothes, placing them in stress positions, and using military working dogs to intimidate them appeared in Iraq only after they had been approved for use in Afghanistan and at GTMO. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s December 2, 2002 authorization of aggressive interrogation techniques and subsequent interrogation policies and plans approved by senior military and civilian officials conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees in U.S. military custody. What followed was an erosion in standards dictating that detainees be treated humanely.
I just can't believe how obvious it is that many of you have read no further than this blog which is an INTERPRETATION of Emma Brocks original article in the Guardian. Lynndie's "laughter" is a nervous laughter from one who can go nowhere without folks like you who believe anything that is fed to you by the Bush White House. Why aren't you demanding that Cheney and Rumsfeld by put on trial? No, you would rather put down a sister and engage in a libelous cat fight....
01/03/09
01/04/09
That Lyndie she like those authority figures, doesn't she? First her baby daddy that made her pose in all those pictures that she would never have done if he hadn't insisted and then hanging out with her attorney.
So who was it that made fun of the Wolf lady? Oh. Lyndie. Ooops.
And she IS NOT MY sister.
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It really sounds like she has some brain damage and didn't belong in the Army to begin with.
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But am I the only one who isn't surprised by the fact that people who've been trained to kill other people are capable of brutality?
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Which makes me even more sad than just contemplating the moral bankruptcy of a handful of individuals.
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*shudder*
01/03/09
(Not that I think they should be cut slack, just that I think England shouldn't either.)
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01/03/09
Someone compared her statement of "what happen in war, happens" to "what happens in vegas, stays in vegas" as if it's anything whatsoever similar. Umm, no. Iraq is a place where people blow themselves up to kill you. Where a drive down the street can end with an RPG to the face.
While I am not excusing war crimes, because some of the shit happening is absolutely terrible, I feel like, in some way, I can understand how this sort of thing could happen when your mind is totally plagued by the crap happening around you.
01/03/09
But as I said I don't think it matters whether they were guilty or innocent. For one thing torture is specifically banned by the Geneva Convention (which even the Bush Admin agreed applies in Iraq) and the UN Convention on Torture, both of which the US is bound by. It's not like this was a grey area. For another, it's morally wrong. Finally, not that it matters, but torture is not regarded as being useful for eliciting reliable information.
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Innocence aside, torture of any prisoners or detainees is in violation of the Geneva Convention, an international agreement which the USA had championed. It is a violation of international law to torture. Period. This administration is guilty as hell and almost daring anyone to call them out on it. Rumsfeld, Rove, Cheney et al are flippin' the bird to the rest of the world.
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And yet I do still think the Abu Ghraib abuses were horrific and deserving of outrage, it's just...I don't know. Does it say something about our need for visuals?
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In a better world, I would allow for England's personal history and context to "lighten" her sentence (in comparison to say her superiors), but never to a paltry 521 days.
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