Who created Iraq's newest monster?

[dArKeR]

By Mary Riddell
THE OBSERVER , London
Saturday, May 15, 2004,Page 9

Private Lynndie R. England, trailing an Iraqi prisoner on the end of her dog lead, is the most loathed woman in the world. Cigarette in mouth, finger stabbing towards the genitals of naked victims, she is, according to one newspaper, "the trailer trash torturer who shames the US."

Queens of violence, from Penthesilea of the Amazons to Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, can attract awe, but Lynndie is no upmarket she-devil. Instead, the response to the Abu Ghraib pictures likens her to a female warder of a Nazi concentration camp aided and abetted by her lover and co-abuser, Charles Graner.

England is a bit-player who's come to symbolize a wider horror story. Back home, family and friends are trying to work out how a "sweet, down-to-earth" paper-pusher who wanted to be a weather girl turned into a preening sexual predator.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/05/15/2003155593

[donhakman]

1. The Tanya Harding of prison guards

no toon for you.

[whistle]

2. Well the focus needs to be on BushCo...

...namely Dubya, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Wolfowitz, Pearl and the top military brass for fostering and allowing an environment and organization culture permissive of such abuses. The grunts carried out the actions, but those higher up looked the other way at the very least and more than likely gave orders to treat prisoners in such a way. Whey would our highest government officials and commanders do such a thing, because they felt they could and no one would be any wiser. For them the ends justify the means! Sick bastards.:puke: