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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:39 PM
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BBC:US woman soldier [Lynddie England] unrepentant over Abu Ghraib
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8199168.stm (video)


Five years after Lynddie England became the face of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, the disgraced US soldier spoke to Newsnight's Hilary Andersson.

In a hard-hitting interview she talks about the death threats that mean she is still scared to leave her home; her agony over how to tell her five-year-old son about the photographs and her refusal to accept that she did anything wrong.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:40 PM
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1. I'm sorry but she is only a fish in the sea. Her life is suffering (I read she can't get a job)
while Bush and Cheney and the rest who authorized this go on living prosperous lives.
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:43 PM
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2. She also refuses to admit that she did anything wrong. Let her suffer.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:43 PM
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3. Oh well, did you really expect a different reaction from her?
God will fuck with her. Count on it.

I don't foresee a long and happy life for her. Tough shit.

Maybe she could gain some measure of redemption by ratting out the assholes who put her up to it.
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:53 PM
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5. Take a look through her eyes.
Shooter and his little side kick will not pay one minute for the hundreds of thousands of deaths, tortures, and devastation they have brought to the world. Damn straight she is unhappy. If I were in her shoes I probably wouldn't apologize either. She did her time. If god is watching s/he sure as hell would have brought little boots to justice. The Deity is on a vacation and not paying this planet one minute of attention. Don't kid yourself!
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:48 PM
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6. I should have said "God" will fuck with her
If she is so unhappy with those who forced her to do these inhuman things then she should repent and try to make things right by naming names as far up the food chain as she can. Otherwise some of us might get the (mistaken?) idea that she is an illiterate dumbass hillbilly who actually enjoyed doing the things she did to those rag heads.

Again she WILL have a shitty life. That much was more or less established before she was born. But she could have salvaged something by exhibiting a little humanity.

Sucks to be her.

Yeah I doubt that "god" even knows who the fuck Lynndie England is. Or me. Or you. Or gives a rats ass.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:45 PM
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4. She has decide her best route to employment is.....
the Joe the Plumber Redneck Tour.
Probably even get a book deal (Regenery) out of it.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:53 PM
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7. If she refuses to accept that she did anything wrong, why is she agonizing over telling
her kid about the photos?
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