The people who should be sorry are those who allowed this one event to be blown out of proportion. The liberal media cost lives of both our soldiers and Iraqis who suffered from their overstatement of case.
Posted on 06/13/2009 12:11:53 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
In this deeply disturbing interview, the trailer trash torturer who appalled the world by appearing in shocking 'souvenir' photographs remains utterly unrepentant and says she has 800 MORE torture photos that could rock the White House
Normally, not much happens in Keyser, West Virginia, but today the folks in this quaint little railroad town, nestling in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, are spoilt for choice.
Either they can whoop and holler along to fiddle music at the annual Strawberry Festival or head down to the bookshop, where a local 'celebrity' - as her agent-cum-lawyer describes her - is signing first editions of her new biography.
Arriving at Main Street Books to find a young woman - considerably heavier now, but still grimly familiar - loitering self-consciously beside a pile of unsold manuscripts, it becomes clear that the fiddle players have won hands-down.
When the shop closes, two hours later, Lynndie England has autographed barely two dozen copies, mostly for acquaintances such as her old schoolteacher.
For even on her home territory, few people are willing to line the pockets of this fallen girl soldier; who posed for a stomach-churning series of 'souvenir' photographs that cost countless American lives and brought shame on the nation.
Five years have passed since a U.S. TV station first broadcast those pictures, staged to humiliate and dehumanise Iraqi prisoners - and provide warped amusement for their U.S. Army guards - at Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad.
They caused universal outrage, ending any lingering pretence that President George W. Bush was on some moral crusade in Iraq, and sparking a wave of retaliatory beheadings; many of which were videoed to reciprocate the horror and degradation meted out to the Muslim detainees.
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" remains utterly unrepentant and says she has 800 MORE torture photos that could rock the White House"
Her absolute dereliction of duty and blatant disregard for foundational Army regulations and protocols was directly responsible for perhaps hundreds of additional US casualties in Iraq.
It seems she hasn't any guilt or remorse for her actions. And, with a book set to be published, it looks as if she'll profit from her actions.
What utter trash she is.
What a b*@$()!
Beside being trash, her claim to have almost a thousand more photos endangers US troops!
I can’t remember the details.....how did she torture prisoners?
Good grief, that whole article stinks to high heaven with stereotypes doesn’t it? Oh thats right, its not a stereoytpe if its about white people. Then again, she should have to apologize when they bowdown and kiss America’s behind. They can START with apologizing for Daniel Pearl.
She’s too F’ing stupid to realize what she did was wrong. This ho should be in the clink....
What she did wasn’t torture. College hazing is worse.
That said she did disobey orders and did hurt the cause. So has her commanding General since.
she should run for Congress lol
It endangers all of us here.
Every time our state-run media revives the Abu Ghraib story, there is an uptick in attacks on westerners here.
I destest Lynndie England almost as much as I detest our state-run media.
underwear on head? leashes? poses?
I dunno
She was never taught right from wrong, most publik skools don’t teach it either
Doesn’t excuse her pimping her squalid story and thus further doing harm to America. She’s vile and reckless.
If she has 800 more photos as she claims, they belong to the United States Military, IMO
Let me know what your alma mater is, I want to make sure my kids avoid that school.
What she, and her partners in crime, engaged in was torture. Iraq was not Afghanistan, I know, I was in both places. Uniformed service members of the US Armed Forces have a moral obligation, and swear an oath to to treat prisoners in a humane manner. There was nothing humane about what they did, and it certainly wasn't college Tom Foolery.
Do a little research about what happened at Abu Ghraib before you embarrass yourself further.
I don’t care what she did. It shouldn’t have been an issue. The photos should never have been released. No one died from her actions specifically but people surely died from the actions of liberals in the media to stir this up in order to hurt America and hurt Bush and gain politically. I’ll save my anger for the real monsters. They are among us and we do nothing to stop them.
It’s too bad she got caught. She would have made a great Secretary of DHS.
What publisher fronted this work?
And for the next act we have dueling banjoes.
If it saved one American life I hope she pulled out their finger nails one at a time very very slow.
None of those terrorists were beheaded after the supposed "torture".
We should give her a metal and hang 90% of the MSM.
Panties on their heads...dogleashes around their necks...ridiculing their genitals...
Yeah, real heavy stuff.
But she never chopped off anyone’s head! ;)
Can you save me a little time... how many of the terrorist/insurgents at Abu Ghraib suffered serious injury or death? Thanks.
I do care and it should have been an issue within the military. I agree that the media was hyping it and did much harm, it should have been dealt with swiftly by the military.
But she can't be absolved from now selling her story and announcing to have more photos. She is in pack with the media who keep this up to harm our troops. Beside that her actions and behavious is disgusting and repulsive. Whether it's torture or not... it's in all cases prisoner abuse.
I don’t know who disgusts me more, Lynndie England or David Jones.
I guessing she is not going to sell too many books.
False statement.
Bush was on a moral crusade in Iraq; side shows like Abu Ghraib were used by the national media to discredit the objective.
Everyone knows that national media are willing to cheerlead military defeat and discourage troops in time of war, if it will discredit a Republican administration.
In the past such action was called sedition or treason, and was punished by death.
Doing things to guys that they'd have to pay for in San Francisco.
” Do a little research about what happened at Abu Ghraib before you embarrass yourself further. “
Funny I dont feel embarrased. I could care less what they did to them and the lefties don’t care either. The left doesnt care about the people of Iraq.
Her crime was giving the left and anti-americans a tool to use against us.
Its what happens when you put people in positions like this without the training or discipline needed. Theres even a case that the mix of male and females in the unit as being a factor. She did this because she was in love with the psycho and following his lead.
Hear, hear.
I'm a sickened by some that are actually defending her. Her actions were nothing short of traitorous, and narcissistic indulgence of her, and her friends, own weird, sexual proclivities.
Sorry Lancey, American soldiers don't do naked dogpiles of handcuffed prisoners, like this "woman" and her pimp did. Those photos getting out hurt the war effort in Iraq more than you will ever know.....
~~Pearl, just before he was beheaded by Jew-hating Islamofascists.
Separated at birth?
Agreed. But I must admit that even all of these years later, the anal Glo-Sticks were something that still elicit a chuckle. That does not make me a bad man.
The media wouldn't have had that story to further enflame the terrorists if Lynndie and her friends hadn't acted so crass and stupid.
I remember well the days after that story was released. Yeah, I remember having to dive into bomb shelters or hit the ground quite a bit more than usual in those days. And "usual" was enough as it was.
And in 2005 when we experienced about a week's lull in violence, the media scum revived the story talking about the trial and the terrorists got back down to business again.
Lynndie gets no slack from me.
Omar wasn't afraid to die but he was terrified to think that his homeys would see him on the Internet in a naked pyramid.
Better than Janet Napolitano, that’s for sure!
Yep. Run a prison for whatever prisoners... But dammit run it professionally!
It’s a prison, not a little sex dungeon.
How low-life do you have to be to indulge in forced masturbations and butt-pyramides.
Beside being scum, they did harm our effort by their little pervert parties.
Most of their actions I wouldn’t call torture. But definately grave prisoner abuse.
This would have never seen the light of day had there not been a Republican in the White House at the time.
HAHAHAHAH....
I don't think it does. But if so, you should be able to easily prove it. But be careful!
If publishing photos of that ilk stir the enemy to also commit "atrocities", then the NYT publishing the photo of a dead American being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu should have endangered alot of Somalis!
Did it? How many Somalis died directly as a result of that photo being published (by the "reckless" NYT, no less!)?
What skeeter said...
Your Mogadishu comparison assumes that US Soldiers react identically like Islamist terrorists.
I don’t think so.
That whole thing proved that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" fails to keep sexual perverts out of the military and that it should be replaced with a far tougher standard.
Not nearly as “grave” as what Uday and Qusay Hussein did to eleven and twelve -year-old schoolgirls that they had sent up to the Palace every day for their “pleasure”.
Remember what had just gone on before...remember who we were freeing the Iraqui people from.
What Lynndie did was a picnic in the park by comparison.
For goodness sake, buy yourself a sense of proportionality.
Americans are used to following a different standard. That doesn’t mean they didn’t want to turn Somalia into a glass parking lot.
Isn’t she the one who posed with a leash on a prisoner and (horror of horrors) put panties on some guys head? What a load of horse sheet....freaks out in LA pay good money for that kind of treatment.
No my FRiend, her crime was violating her oath of service (and oath sworn before God, I should add), and every principle of appropriate prisoner treatment as defined in the Army Field Manuel.
I don't know one military officer (and I know a lot), that condones, in any way, what she and her cohorts did.
You can take issue with how the foreign and domestic media used these pictures and this story, I know that I do. But, her conduct is indefensible.
Are Americans fighting a war in Mogadishu? Here's a better analogy......you see a picture of your relatives in a naked dogpile in prison...Does it make you happy...or sad....? Can I put it simpler than that?
Exactly right. I say we start with the lamestream media who did their level best to discredit the war in Iraq from the beginning, and did everything humanly possible to make our troops look bad and the United States of America the villain.
US troops and Americans have been dying at the hands of arabs long before these pictures were taken.
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