Scandal shows women acting like men

NY Newsday ^ | May 13, 2004 | Marie Cocco (aka "Cukoo")

[presidio9]

She's got it all. The perky grin. The cheerleader's exuberance. The diminutive figure. The Dorothy Hamill hair.

What might have been a picture of America's sweetheart has become instead a portrait of America's sadist.

The world knows Lynndie England, the dark-haired Army private who appears in pictures of sexual humiliation at the Abu Ghraib prison, because she has become the scandal's featured model. The Iraqi prisoner abuse that has shocked the national conscience delivers an unfamiliar jolt: The face of this scandal is female.

Three of the seven members of a military police unit who've been charged in the abuse investigation are women. The brigadier general who was in charge of the jail, Janis Karpinski, is now a familiar face, defending herself for failing to stop the indefensible. The head of intelligence for the U.S. command in Baghdad is a woman whose name has not, thus far, become a household word - Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast.

[presidio9]

"She's got it all. The perky grin. The cheerleader's exuberance. The diminutive figure. The Dorothy Hamill hair.

The technicolor school bus...

[dfwgator]

You owe me a new monitor, LOL!!!

[Reactionary]

Very funny! :)

[sauropod]

FNC has reported that a lot of the "porn" pictures from Abu Ghraib are actually fakes lifted off of a real porn site.

[nevergore]

And a porn queen too....

Allegedly, there are videos of her having sex with several soldiers.....

NeverGore :^)

[GROOVY]

Move on already NewsDay. Didn't they hear about the guy getting his head sawed off?

[Cyber Liberty]

I keep thinking, "technicolor yawn" when I see a Cookoo piece.

(Humorous side note: Did you know that guy in your pics got busted a few years back in Phoenix for beating up a transexual prostitute?)

[54-46 Was My Number]

She's got it all. The perky grin. The cheerleader's exuberance. The diminutive figure. The Dorothy Hamill hair.

The missing chromosome.

Damn, but that is one butt-ugly, semi-retarded-looking broad. She's so ugly she could knock a buzzard off a sh*t truck.

[11th Earl of Mar]

hehehehe!

[Winfield]

Why should Pvt. England and those other soldiers involved in the prison scandal, worry? They should just get out of the Army, protest against the war, write a book about all the terrible atrocities in which they and "all American soldiers" participated .........maybe go for a degree at an Ivy League school. Obviously, character is not considered when being admitted to the Ivy schools. Have a look at some of the pornography put out by Hollywood stars, who also sport a degree from
Yale & Harvard. Those movies have greatly influenced the image the rest of the world, particularly
the Muslim world, have of America. ("Why do they hate us?!) But I digress.
In a few years they will qualify to run for President of the USA.............as a Democrat, of course. Hey! It worked for John Kerry. Oh yes, they will have to throw away any medals they may have received. They can always pick them up again and claim to be "war heros", when they get ready to campaign for public office.

[dfwgator]

I'm surprised noone pointed out the worst abuse of all. She was smoking! She actually exposed the prisoners to second-hand smoke, never mind all of that other stuff about the leash, that's mere child's play.

[TexasCajun]

From Drudge, NYPost:

May 13, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown to lawmakers in a top-secret Capitol conference room yesterday.

"She was having sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual," said a lawmaker who saw the photos.

And, videos showed the disgraced soldier - made notorious in a photo showing her holding a leash looped around an Iraqi prisoner's neck - engaged in graphic sex acts with other soldiers in front of Iraqi prisoners, Pentagon officials told NBC Nightly News.

"Almost everybody was naked all the time," another lawmaker said.

Seems like she may be headed to California to become the next Porn Slut Queen!

[lilylangtree]

Big deal! (sarc)

[martin_fierro]

Call her Clay Achin'.

[anniegetyourgun]

Article is pap - full of "excuses" for this trailer trash. Even the headline writer is attempting to suggest that men are lowlife and women have lowered themselves to their level in "following orders." Give me a break. The man-hating feminist arguments here have no place. Screw up idiots like England come in both genders, all colors, etc.

[xsmommy]

that woman is a dyke, ain't no way around it. i don't care who she is pregnant by.

[Spok]

When I saw her picture for the first time, my thought was "you've come a long way, baby". When women strive to become men (not saying that is the case here), why do they usually pick the dark side of masculinity to emulate?

[TSgt]

Don't politicize this tragedy with your pro-smoking agenda.

[ElkGroveDan]

[smiley]

yikes....looks like some of the male "lesbions" we have here.....