This Is A Good Thing

trouble is, nobody else in the rest of the world is at all surprised that you yanks behaved in this manner, you have such a screwed up society that abusing human rights is right up there with carrying guns around, shooting up schools and getting your knickers in a twist about seeing people with no clothes on that you obviously don't know your arse from your elbow.
She is simply a product of your society and your simplistic answer is lock her up, totaly failing to realise that her behaviour, and the rest of the people who were doing it, is really just a reflection on the rest of you.

She was only a (not very bright) pawn in a very, very ugly game.

She was only a (not very bright) pawn in a very, very ugly game.

I'm not surprised . . . 'Mericans are so screwed up . . . somebody should bomb that bejesus out of them and see how they like it . . . it's about damned time they got their comupance . . . what a blight upon mankind . . .

msolga wrote:

She was only a (not very bright) pawn in a very, very ugly game.

Totally agree, MsO. She should have pleaded 'not guilty' and insisted that, like a good soldier, she was just carrying out orders. It is appalling that all the brass have already been exonerated by military investigative teams. They throw Grainer and England to the wolves while the colonels and the generals sit back at the officers' club and toast the next atrocity. Pvt. England is the sacrificial lamb, offered up so that the higher-ups can try to put the Abu Graib scandal behind them. It is the generals who deserve to be court matialed for allowing (nay, encouraging) such behavior on their watch.

msolga wrote:

She was only a (not very bright) pawn in a very, very ugly game.

She was a pawn, she's not very bright, but she's not excused. She's a scumbag white trash skank. Why do you think she was so easily used?
It's a cliche but you can take a pig out of the mud, bathe it, put cologne and a pink ribbon on it, and it will return directly to the mud. Because? That's where pigs like to be.

Miss England is a pathetic little creature and more sinned against than sinning at this point--the ones who need to be strung up are the high-ranking s.o.b.'s who condoned or encouraged this, and Rummy and all his evil minions who think they are above the common run of Americans and are not subject to ordinary restraints.

She should have pleaded 'not guilty' and insisted that, like a good soldier, she was just carrying out orders. It is appalling that all the brass have already been exonerated by military investigative teams.