The small-town girl who ended up on every channel (Lynndie England – Leash Girl)

The Baltimore Sun via SMH ^ | May 7, 2004 | John Woestendiek in Fort Ashby, West Virginia

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Lynndie England loved a good storm. During tornado warnings her mother would have to drag her back inside the house. Her teachers say she wanted a career as a storm-chaser.

Now, the perfect storm has found her.

From hometown hero to the reviled woman holding the leash . . . US Reserve
soldier Lynndie England with an Iraqi prisoner in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
Photo: The Washington Post

The petite 21-year-old army reservist from the quiet crossroads town of Fort Ashby in West Virginia is the most visible character in the controversy over the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. She is the thumbs-up girl, the pixie-ish, T-shirted soldier, smiling, pointing and posing for the camera with naked and humiliated inmates.

Soon after the release of the photographs, Terrie England was on the telephone with her daughter while watching television.

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[tiamat]

Her mother is busy making excuses.

I'd die of shame if my daughter did anything like this.

I'd break her neck first, though!

[AmericanInTokyo]

I nominate her for a position with the National Park Service as a ranger at the check in station at Yellowstone. And a year's supply of plaid flannel shirts. And some Sarah McGloughlin tapes.

[proust]

Yep. And imagine what would have happened if the picture was of a male soldier holding a female on a leash.

[WOSG]

Correct.

btw, these men were being punished because they started a prison riot.

No way were these women controlling these prisoners by themselves.

[FReepaholic]

>>...I am very encouraged by the outrage our nation has shown over the actions of these out-of-control prison guards....<<

President Bush spoke on Arabic TV regarding this issue. I believe he should address the American people also.

We pride ourselves in our humane treatment of enemy POW's. Whenever the enemy mistreats our guys we are rightously indignant and say we don't do that.

Well, we can't say that anymore. These morons have insulted our nation. They've caused us to lose face before the world.

I think this is big. It makes me sick.

[rogercolleridge]

What are the odds that she'll do a Playboy spread sometime soon...

Pretty good I'd say. Can someone please explain that to me -- why people want to see famous/infamous people naked -- no matter what they look like??

[RichInOC]

No, that's not it...

[commonerX]

""Wake up! We need to torture these people for about twenty years so THEY WILL FEAR US. They will never love us, much less respect us.""


You are an IDIOT AND SHOULD BE TORTURED FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS.

[tlrugit]

Old addage: Whatever happens, don't let them turn you over to the women.

[usflagwaver]

My only response to you is that you make me want to puke!

[Skooz]

The military should put together and field units entirely based on what's best to accomplish the military objective, and it should not let gender quota politics designed by whorists (feminists) to be pushed down its throat.

Thank you.

[ken5050]

Same reason why people rubberneck at traffic accidents...

[cicero's_son]

bump.

[tiamat]

I'm hearing nasty rumours that they came out of the Pentagon, but i have nothing to back that up with.

I am not saying apologise. if you apologise in the ME, they see you as weak and press further.

the way to handle it is to simply state, " The things that were done were wrong. Those who did them will be dealt with sternly".

AND THAT'S ALL!

The young trooper was going along with her gang. I think she's very trashy.

I'm also not saying pamper the prisoners. Hell, if I were running it, more of them would be being hauled out and shot.




However, these pictures are simply unclean and beneath us.

[mbraynard]

You realize she will be a hot property in the San Fernando valley among the BSDM/humiliation subsection of the porno industry. She will probably get enough money to get her mom out of that trailor.

[expatguy]

We should have just nuked these clowns and been done with it.

[pickemuphere]

I hope they throw the book at this "pixie-ish" little knuckle-dragger. The military must cull its ranks when necessary.

[AmericanInTokyo]

You are going to catch hell for that comment, just now, by the troglodytes, the "my country, right or ugly", or the "Shucks, even Beelzebub could don a US military uniform and that would make him OK in my book"-crowd on FR.

You took the road less traveled. So did President Bush. So do most of the active duty military on FR about this issue.

And for THAT, you are liable to catch wrath and hell.

[Pete]

Maybe I am just jaded but I really don't care. The only thing that really bothers me about this whole thing is how the Left and the Arab world are using these pictures to further their anti-US agenda.

Maybe I should care, but I don't. So they put a leash on a naked guy. Big whoop. Pretty tame when put against the tapestry of the last 5000 years of warfare and brutality that make up human history. The fact that there is more outrage (even in the US it seems) over these pictures than over the smoldering contractors hanging from a bridge tells me that the outrage is manufactured.

The one exception I will make to that statement is the outrage shown by our military people. They feeled betrayed by the idiots in these pictures. I think that outrage is justified.