[hombre_sincero]

that sentence sounds fair for the actual crime she was guilty of - mainly stupidity.

Now -- if they start throwing her CO and that general into the brig right alonside her .... Don't hold your breath on that. The entire command was a disgrace and it was all the fauklt of the command above.

[Criminal Number 18F]

if they start throwing her CO and that general into the brig right alonside her

A bunch of heads have rolled. Most of the officers were able to accept nonjudicial punishment or resign in lieu of court martial (which still has serious consequences). I believe there were 27 officers and about 11 NCOs in the chain of command who were smoked, although the press played it down because it didn't fit the "soldiers bad" meme and then the "no one suffered by the private and, oh the female general" meme.

The "female general" was BG Janis Karpinski. She was pushed into retirement as a colonel. Two battalion commanders (Lt. Col.s) were also shown the door.

If you read the whole Taguba Report, that unit was so rotten that it could only have been sick from the head down. That's the way units go. Lynndie England and Charles Graner might well have been exemplary soldiers, given good officer leadership and NCO supervision. But even ABSENT that supervision, there is no excuse for what they became.

I guess I'm with you though... I'd like to have seen Karpinski and some of the colonels in the pen too. (One company commander is still facing court-martial, I believe).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[JoeFromSidney]

that sentence sounds fair for the actual crime she was guilty of - mainly stupidity.

But stupidity isn't supposed to be a court-martial offense.