Reply #22: Darned activist military judges CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

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From Yahoo News:

(The)...judge...Col. James Pohl...(said)...that he was not convinced that she knew that her actions were wrong at the time.

...Graner testified at England's sentencing hearing that pictures he took of England holding a naked prisoner on a leash at Abu Ghraib were meant to be used as a legitimate training aid for other guards.

...England...told the judge she knew that the pictures were being taken purely for the amusement of the guards...Pohl said the two statements could not be reconciled.

Consider the implications: If the pictures were for training purposes, that means that Graner's orders, or at least knowledge of and consent to do what he was doing, had come from higher-up. If the judge believes that England was "just following orders," then Graner must have been, too, as well as the person his superior take orders from, and so on, and so on...clear on up to the Bush White House, perhaps?

Thanks for your moral courage Judge Pohl! Maybe we'll get to take down some higher-ups in this mess after all! And wouldn't it be cool if he asked to see ALL the Abu Ghraib pics?

On edit: Oh, goody--Randi Rhodes is on in ten minutes.

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