Lynndie England blames media for Abu Ghraib photos

[Praxius]

U.S. Army Pte. Lynndie R. England arrives for her Article 32
Investigation hearing in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal at Fort Hood,
Texas in 2005.

This is an image obtained by The Associated Press
which shows an unidentified detainee standing on a
box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him
in this late 2003 photo at the Abu Ghraib prison in
Baghdad, Iraq.

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BERLIN -- Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was sorry for appearing in photographs of detainees in the notorious Iraqi prison, and believes the scenes of torture and humiliation served as a powerful rallying point for anti-American insurgents.

.... ya think?

.... In an interview with the weekly magazine Stern conducted in English and posted on its Web site Tuesday, England was both remorseful and unrepentant -- and conceded that the published photos surely incensed insurgents in Iraq.


"I guess after the picture came out the insurgency picked up and Iraqis attacked the Americans and the British and they attacked in return and they were just killing each other. I felt bad about it ... no, I felt pissed off. If the media hadn't exposed the pictures to that extent, then thousands of lives would have been saved," she was quoted as saying.

You stupid fokking Nob Gobbler.... another perfect example of passing off the blame and not accepting responsibility for one's own actions. Maybe if they didn't treat their prisoners like animals and laughing at them like a bunch of red neck hillbillies at a lynch, then perhaps they wouldn't have started all this crap..... moron.

Asked how she could blame the media for the controversy, she said it wasn't her who leaked the photos.


"Yeah, I took the photos but I didn't make it worldwide. Yes, I was in five or six pictures and I took some pictures, and those pictures were shameful and degrading to the Iraqis and to our government," she said, according to the report.


"And I feel sorry and wrong about what I did. But it would not have escalated to what it did all over the world if it wouldn't have been for someone leaking it to the media."

England, who was a private first class, was in several images taken in late 2003 by U.S. guards at Abu Ghraib. One showed her holding a naked prisoner on a leash, while in others she posed with a pyramid of naked detainees and pointed at the genitals of a prisoner while a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth.


Asked by the magazine if what happened at Abu Ghraib was a scandal or something that happens during wartime, England said it was the latter.


"I'm saying that what we did happens in war. It just isn't documented," she was quoted as saying. "If it had been broken by the news without the pictures it wouldn't have been that big."


She told the magazine that there are other photographs that have not been released that contain more graphic images than those that were seen on television, in newspapers and on the Internet.


"You see the dogs biting the prisoners. Or you see bite marks from the dogs. You can see MPs (military police) holding down a prisoner so a medic can give him a shot," she said. "If those had been made public at the time, then the whole world would have looked at those and not at mine."


England was released in March 2007 after serving half her 36-month sentence. She was convicted of six counts involving prisoner mistreatment.


England said she is living with her parents in Fort Ashby, W.Va., along with her son, Carter, whose father is Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of those who took the pictures. They were both members of the 372nd Military Police Company based in western Maryland.


Eleven U.S. soldiers were convicted of crimes at the prison near Baghdad. Graner received the harshest sentence, a 10-year prison term.

Oh, it's not our fault for acting like douche bags, taking pictures of us acting like douche bags... it's the media's fault for exposing what we were doing?

What a fokking twit! Just because these things can and do occur in war, doesn't give you the right to take part in it, and then trivialize it. I swear to whatever god that may exist that if Insurgents captured her, raped and beat the living hell out of her, got dogs to take a few bites out of her, and then dump her on the streets somewhere.... She would be bitching about justice, vengence, killing all those who did this to her, hell, the whole US would want to Nuke Iraq right then and there out of sympathy for her troubles.

Oh.... but these are just nameless/faceless Iraqis who were captured by US soldiers.... these things happen all the time.... so who cares right?

Great friggin mentality being expressed here..... and they let her spawn a kid?

Typical.

 

[MikeyDB]

It's America....

"We have to bring "freedom" to Iraq! They made us do this because they were hiding stockpiles of WMDS! etc. etc."

Works with Americans.

 

[karrie]

You stupid fokking Nob Gobbler.... ... moron.

A little tip for all the guys out there.... if you use insults like this in your daily language, you can almost be guaranteed that your partner will have a bad view of the activities implied. She will assume that it is an activity to be disrespected and mocked, and you will probably receive it on a schedule that reflects that impression. Just a tip.

 

[dancing-loon]

Iraqis are not seen and respected as humans by the Americans, from the top down to Lynndie English. That's where the crux of the matter lies! Those pictures speak an unmistakable language and expose the dark underside of the real America.
Just add to those Abu Ghraib photos what we have heard about the torture of their prisoners around the Globe, and there can be no doubt anymore that the Americans are the ones belonging to the axis of evil!

 

[Praxius]

A little tip for all the guys out there.... if you use insults like this in your daily language, you can almost be guaranteed that your partner will have a bad view of the activities implied. She will assume that it is an activity to be disrespected and mocked, and you will probably receive it on a schedule that reflects that impression. Just a tip.

Well it's not my daily language per say, and I understand that it's probably not the most appealling phrase in reference to oral stimulation, but to me, for her to go out in the media and publically state what she stated, I just couldn't think of anything more reasonable that suited her.

If it makes things any better I'll also reference a Honey Pot Crotch Sucker... there, now both oral stimulations have been officially ruined.