The lawyer for Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, yesterday compared heaping naked Iraqi prisoners in a tangled pyramid to choreographed displays by high-school cheerleaders.
"Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year? Is that torture?" Guy Womack asked a 10-member military jury in Fort Hood, Texas.
Telegraph article"Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year? Is that torture?" Guy Womack asked a 10-member military jury in Fort Hood, Texas.
Now there's a guy who could give lawyers a bad name.
Dick.
I think that's the most appropriate thing I can say here.
Unfortunately, there's more.
[H]e also defended the tethering of prisoners on a leash as a legitimate method of control.
"You're keeping control of them. A tether is a valid control to be used in corrections," he said. "You've probably been at a mall or airport and seen children on tethers - they're not being abused."
"You're keeping control of them. A tether is a valid control to be used in corrections," he said. "You've probably been at a mall or airport and seen children on tethers - they're not being abused."
The client.
The client and his girlfriend.
Look like cheerleading camp to you?
Womack said the soldiers took the photographs "because no one did anything they thought was wrong".
And that is what is so disturbing.
Major Michael Holley, the chief prosecutor, said Graner beat a prisoner with a baton until the Iraqi begged for death, and forced men "to simulate fellatio".
Didn't think either of those things was wrong?
No, I just don't know why they hate us.
Update 1/11:
"You're keeping control of them. A tether is a valid control to be used in corrections," [Womack] said. "In Texas we'd lasso them and drag them out of there."
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