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    Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: 'How about I find you a hood and some wires?' Ahh, Brit humor... She's right, though. If only she'd been able to rape and kill a few civilians, sans c... more »
    Hooplehead: Every interview I've seen with this woman, her "pity me" attitude and utter cluelessness about the depth of her offense just strikes me. She just has... more »
    artsygirl: I have to take issue with the idea of her "a place where people didn't know better" -- I'm from West Virginia,and that idea only furthers the crappy s... more »
    AnielaMarburger: So many of you are misguided in your judgment of Lynndie. Please look up and READ the report on the detainee abuse by the bi-partisan Senate armed for... more »
    sybann: This young woman is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and probably doesn't even see the men she took part in abusing as wholly human (like most big... more »
    clevernamehere: Lynndie England isn't just learning disabled, she was oxygen deprived at birth. [www.msnbc.msn.com] It really sounds like she has some brain damage an... more »
    Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: I don't feel sorry for her, but it makes me angry that she's gotten dragged out more often than anyone else on this. She probably accounts for some of... more »
    aubonpam: She's disgusting in every possible way, and oblivious to it all. more »
    SharonTaint: I'm not excusing her actions; I think Lynndie England is a piece of walking shit. But am I the only one who isn't surprised by the fact that people ... more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: Eeee. She sounds so...empty. Like she really doesn't have any concept of what she's actually done. Maybe her mental/emotional limitations are such tha... more »
    wildfun: Her story is such a perfect example of "the banality of evil" to me. To her, she was just doing her job and I don't think she will ever really underst... more »
    victoriasauce: I'm not saying what she did was right, but weren't the prisoners there for a reason? It's not like we're talking about innocent people being mistreate... more »
    Eeva: Also, with Bush's bizarrely one-sided speech about the Gaza situation today (Palestinian civilian deaths are "regrettable", but they're Hamas's fault?... more »
    dcdulce: i don't know if the interview is strange...it is disturbing..I remember reading a previous interview in an English newspaper (was it the Guardian?) do... more »
    AnnoyingFemaleLeadVoiceover: So as much as you can put aside the surrounding context for her actions (mental capacity, inability to recognize the extent of her behavior, the boyfr... more »
    Jello Mix: She sounds more upset that she can't squirrel-hunt any more than she is about torturing human beings. As a felon, she is prohibited from owning or usi... more »
    AinsiSera: Has anyone seen Errol Morris' documentary Standard Operating Procedure? She is interviewed in that film and she displays the same lack of insight into... more »
    ~sublimealice~: while i definitely think she should be held responsible for her actions, im wondering where the accountability is for the higher ups who actually orde... more »
    Raspberry Swirly: So basically she hasn't learned a damn thing. Great to know. more »
    denna: I was ambivalent toward her until I read this: Thinking back ... I don't want to say I matured more, but I realised that I was so naive and trusting. ... more »
  • #lynndieengland

    Lynndie England: Life After Abu Ghraib

    In what is perhaps one of the strangest interviews of all time, the Guardian's Emma Brockes heads to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, to interview Lynndie England, the woman accused of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib.