This idiocy plays like a mathematics word problem:
If Graner gets ten years for his "torture", then how many light years will Saddam Hussein get for the real deal?
While Hussein sits in a cell somewhere seeking ways to delay his trial and just execution until he dies of natural causes, We've become a nation of misplaced priorities, and the MSM is leading the charge. Who cares about the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi dissenters and their families that Hussein put through the shredder and the gas chambers, past the assassination squads and into the ground? Who cares about that when we can slander the U.S. military for acts of justifiable "torture" that would be considered a slap on the wrist before the 1990's?
Not the NYT or CBS news, and not the left-wingers in the U.S. Congress and Senate it seems.
Even AP calls it prison abuse, not torture..but look at the Australian paper's take on it.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/14/1105582713581.html
Are we all torturers now?
January 15, 2005
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Charles Graner, who is facing a court martial, and another American soldier pose for a photograph behind a pyramid of naked Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Torture is abhorrent, inhumane and against the law. So how did it become part of America's war on terror? Marian Wilkinson reports.
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More than 100 of America's leading military, academic and human rights lawyers have written to the Senate judiciary committee saying it is time for an independent bipartisan commission with full subpoena powers to find out whether the White House approved the torture