I've heard a lot of people talk about how Lynndie England got what she deserved, but the real problem is within the ranks higher up. But did she really get what she deserved? Isn't torturing people, like, really really bad? Especially when people died?
Iraqis expressed fury on Wednesday over the three-year jail sentence for Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in Abu Ghraib prison, saying it exposed American hypocrisy. OK, that's what I thought.
"The whole thing is theatre. The Americans want to pretend they defend human rights and are a civilised nation," said Munir Abdel Sahib, a university lecturer.
"I believe that England would not have committed these crimes without orders from above."
In court testimony, England blamed her involvement on Graner, the abuse ringleader, who is now married to another woman who pleaded guilty to abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
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