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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

Posted on 05/06/2004 8:13:05 AM PDT by dead

Edited on 05/06/2004 8:34:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.

Full story ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amateurdominatrix; dummy; idiot; iraqipow; lynndieengland
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"She shouldn't have been processing prisoners in the first place. She was trained as an administrator, a paper-pusher. At night, she would walk across the prison yard to go over and see her buddies. They were the ones doing the interrogations."

I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!

1 posted on 05/06/2004 8:13:11 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead
That little slip of a girl isn't strong enough to "abuse" the man on the floor...you can see he's way bigger than her. If she's guilty, she deserves to be court martialled....but if this was staged, the public deserves to know about it.
2 posted on 05/06/2004 8:17:26 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: dead
Why no, really, I have NO idea how that leash attached to a naked Iraqi got into my hand! I swear!

Thank you, Private England and all the people up the chain of command up to Brigadier General KRAPinski, for humiliating the United States Army and the United States in General. A representative from Al-Jazeera will be calling your agent soon regarding who will play you in their "Movie of the Week," entitled "I Survived the Infidel Crusader Torturers."

Maybe Lifetime can make a movie about Private England and how she was harassed into doing all these horrible things by the male-dominated military hierarchy. /sarcasm

}:-)4
3 posted on 05/06/2004 8:18:23 AM PDT by Moose4 (Those who serve--thank you. May you find us worthy of the sacrifices you make.)
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To: dead
Tonya Harding joins the U.S. Army Reserves.
4 posted on 05/06/2004 8:18:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus" -- William Wallace (Mel Gibson))
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To: dead
The leash-bound is probably one of the "people" who shredded live innocents. His eternity in hell has begun on earth.

Regardless, it isn't up to us mortals. She'll pay a price too.

5 posted on 05/06/2004 8:18:40 AM PDT by Principled
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To: dead
"She was trained as an administrator

How much "training" do you need before you don't do crap like this?

6 posted on 05/06/2004 8:19:11 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: dead
You forgot "I was just holding it for a friend" (which seems to be appropriate for this photo).
7 posted on 05/06/2004 8:19:11 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: dead
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
8 posted on 05/06/2004 8:19:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Alberta's Child
What are the odds that she'll do a Playboy spread sometime soon...
9 posted on 05/06/2004 8:21:09 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)
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To: Izzy Dunne
He was probably being brought back from the showers. I don't have pity for people like this. Not when they are killing our troops.
10 posted on 05/06/2004 8:22:53 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: dead

11 posted on 05/06/2004 8:23:52 AM PDT by Bobber58 (whatever it takes, for as long as it takes)
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To: dead
"He must be a shape shifter. When I took the leash there was a dog on it. I swear!"
12 posted on 05/06/2004 8:25:45 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Keep the towel in your hand and throw your hat into the ring instead.)
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To: dead
aren't animals supposed to be on leashes?
13 posted on 05/06/2004 8:25:53 AM PDT by petercooper (We did not have to prove Saddam had WMD, he had to prove he didn't.)
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To: dead
Getting myself on the presidential s**t list is one goal i shall forever aspire to avoid.
14 posted on 05/06/2004 8:25:59 AM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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To: Alberta's Child
When I first saw the pictures, I thought she was an asian man. Wrong on both counts.
15 posted on 05/06/2004 8:27:15 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ken5050
"What are the odds that she'll do a Playboy spread sometime soon..."

I'd say slim since she's built like a 12 year old boy. But some guys like that.
16 posted on 05/06/2004 8:27:18 AM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: cripplecreek
This is Clinton military and the product of social promotions.

We need more active duty troops though. Elminating social prommotions and not relying reserves so much would lower the probability of these kinds of acts happening.

17 posted on 05/06/2004 8:27:44 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Principled
you don't know that. it's a pretty good guess that not everyone rounded up was really a bad guy.

given how officially puritanical the Muslim culture is, given that our male soldiers have been told to steer clear of their women, how the h--- did the military let women soldiers have anything to do with male prisoners?

this plays right into the propaganda about the USA being debauched. and some of us are, obviously. here's proof.

one thing I hate more than evil people is stupid evil people. taking pictures. every shot is another shot at an American soldier somewhere.

Mrs VS
18 posted on 05/06/2004 8:27:52 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: cake_crumb
she's so TINY looking.
19 posted on 05/06/2004 8:30:38 AM PDT by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: BadAndy
She can pose wearign nothing but her Kevlar vest.. and an assault rifle, and combat boots...
20 posted on 05/06/2004 8:30:39 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)
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