Reply #34: It doesn't take much to harvest guys like Graner for jobs like this.

[TahitiNut]

The guy's an authoritarian addict ... loves the power trip of being in uniform and having power over other people.

Once upon a time, police forces were getting pretty good at weeding these latent sociopaths out of the recruitment process. I'm pretty sure today's "volunteer" military is good at deploying these types "effectively." Weed out the "bleeding hearts" and the "barracks lawyers" - keep the sadists and reichbots.

Everything anyone ever needed to know about this was seen in the Stanford Jail Experiment and Stanley Milgram's studies. Graner's just a blunt instrument - a tool. He was used, all the way.