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Pfc. Lynndie R. England, a 22-year-old Army file clerk whose smirking photographs came to personify the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, was convicted Monday of joining in the abuse when she posed next to detainees who had been stripped and put into humiliating poses.
It is gratifying that the symbol of American abuse is probably going to the hoosegow. She should get an extra six months just for looking so damn mean. However, this awful abuse could not have occured if the Bush Administration had not gone soft on torture. While it feels good to see thugets like England get put away, justice will not be served until America punishes those higher up on the food chain. Someone gave England free reign to let her inner-sadist run wild. This person also needs to be put in stripes and sent upstate.
7 Comments:
Right on Robert. Even though Lindsey is a low-life (couldnt you just see her on Springer?), she's also a patsy. The fascist scum running this country who said the Geneva Conventions were no longer relevant are more guilty than she! Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at
9/27/2005 9:44 AM
No doubt she was wrong -- but I cannot buy into this prosecution ... ultimately she is a patsy.
Paul, they definitely need to go after Rummy, Wolfowitz and a few others. They can't tell me they knew nothing about it. But Bush isn't going to allow that to happen for obvious reasons. This woman was definitely the scapegoat. Doesn't that sound familiar?
Gary, she'd be perfect fodder for Springer. Boy, does she look mean in that pic? To think she has a boyfriend! In a way its a stab at us when you consider the type of torture inflicted on those inmates, being forced to perform fellatio and other sexual acts on one another, suggestive of depravity and "abnormal" sexual behavior associated with homosexuality, all under Bush's watch.
While I agree that whoever (like this trailer trash woman) gaves bad name to the American People should be punished, I think that she is -in a way- a scapegoat. Yes, she acted wrongly, but with the blessing of superiors. There were even people who questioned weter she was guilty!!!
Until the high rank officers that allow this kind of atrocities are not properly punished and called accountable for their acts, I think that this is just a "white washing" strategy to silent the voices of those who believe in human rights.
posted by Anonymous, at
9/27/2005 3:59 PM
Its ironic, the joint chiefs of staff head honcho (Myers) just retired without anyone fingering him for having prior knowledge of this disgraceful situation.
