Rich Lowry notes the despicable personal conduct and character of the real culprits from Abu Ghraib: guards Charles Graner, Lynndie England, et. al.
These are the people that the Left was happy to use to smear the entire U.S. military and our project in Iraq....These people were a disgrace, and didn't need orders to behave abysmally.
In other circumstances the Left would have happily used Graner/England's stupidity and lack of discipline as examples of the military's supposed need to reach into the dregs of American society for recruits. Instead, wanting urgently to smear SecDef Rumsfeld and President Bush, they are held up as both hapless pawns and the end product of a conscious pursuit of prisoner abuse and "torture" by higher-ups.
The pathetic facts say otherwise.
Posted by Alan at May 10, 2005 12:16 PM