Lynndie England Blames Media for Photos

Wow, the hits just keep on comin'

"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." Yes, damn the media for creating this situation. Stupid media. If they didn't suck so bad, this never would have happened!

And I thought that I couldn't think any less of her.

Wrong.

"And I would have gotten away with it, it if weren't for those pesky kids!"

I used to feel sorry for this scape goat.

believes the scenes of torture and humiliation served as a powerful rallying point for anti-American insurgents.

NO sh** sherlock, maybe you should have questions why you were doing it then.
You do know the pictures themselves did nothing to rally the insurgents but the events that captured? Had you not tortured people couldn't take your picture torturing? You miss england are responsible for us solider deaths.

What a dumb b****

"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."

A regime guilty of war crimes and torture, blessed at the White House and Pentagon, got wrapped into a tidy scandal that ruined the lowest player. Heck of a plan, goodies all around, with a pinch of propaganda and a little muscle in the form of a classified stamp that flies.

sick,idiotic,blaming little b****,face what you and your gutless comrades did.own it.

She is a disgrace to the uniform.

And if we didn't have police forces poking their noses in I could rob banks and get away with it.

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Wow, she really is that stupid.

When this story broke I knew she was one of the lowest players who was going to pay; the enlisted usually go to prison, while the officers get to resign their commission.

The photos were stupid, never should have been taken.

I blame the Non Commissioned Officers (NCO's) in all of this. Where was their leadership? Where was their "lead by example"? The NCO's should have done so much better, they failed in their duties.

I also blame the officers who knew what was going on and allowed it to happen.

I also blame a system that allowed the National Guard (NG) and the Army Reserve (AR) to continue to report their Combat (C-__) Status as a C-1, or C-2, when clearly the units were C-3 or C-4.

I blame our Congress and our Senate for under-funding, under-staffing, and under-equiping the NG and AR for many years.

This whole story sickened me then and it still sickens me now.

For your review;http://www.army.mil/leaders/SMA/creed.htm

The NCO Creed is something to strive to be, it sets a code to live by. Sadly the NCO's of that unit, and others, forgot what the NCO creed means.

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She's so convinced that the "enemy" is bad and that we are the "good guys" that it must be just an unfortunate incident that the "media" turned into something bad. "So what if we humiliated fellow human beings and took pictures of them? That was OUR business".

To quote Zero Punctuation: The American Marines act with short sighted self-righteousness, convinced that they are the heroes of their own personal war movie. You know, just like in real life.

Having served in Afghanistan alongside US Forces, I have to say that's not far wrong and this particular soldier is another prime example of their attitude.

of course, it was the media's fault...it wasn't the fault of the perpetrators....no, it couldn't have been that

Eighteen months in jail and no repentence. She still feels a bit sorry for herself.

Bank robber to police: 'They never would have caught me, and this would be no big deal if that bank hadn't installed cameras...'

The military did the right thing by booting these people out of the service and sending them to jail.

And yes, I'm a vet. U.S. Army. More years ago than I care to remember. (laughs)

I read the headline, I looked at the photo, I assumed I know what the headline meant till I read the story.

The bigger story here should be: "White House, Pentagon Blame Media (and Lynndie) for Photos"

Do recall that the Pentagon fought tooth and nail to keep the 2nd round of photos under raps for reasons of "image" before a Federal judge ordered their release. (They were blocked again on appeal, before being leaked.)

Why here's Dick Cheney saying that releasing more photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse might do little more than give journalists "more pictures to print."

As luckydog and others have explained, this was freaking POLICY that went right up the chain of command to the White House and the Office of the Sec Def: Government documents prove there is an Administration of Torture which Bush and Rumsfeld (thus Cheney) were directly and personally involved in sanctioning. Certain top brass and the Pentagon knew what was going on, and not only encouraged it, but phoned in for updates.

"Detainees were actually chained with their hands above their heads in these airlocks," says Moazzam Begg. "His number, 421, was something that I could see often, because his back was towards me."

"There were always officers coming and going through the facility," says Eric Lahammer. "We kind of joked about it as being the 'greatest show on earth'; everyone wanted to come and look at the 'terrorists.'"

"[Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld's office called our office frequently," adds Pfc. Damien Corsetti. Very high commanders would want to be kept up to date, on a daily basis, on certain prisoners there."

"The brass knew," Corsetti continues. "They saw 'em shackled. They saw 'em hooded, and they said 'Right on. Y'all are doin' a great job.'"

Direct your ire a little bit higher.

On August 30, an American military court acquitted Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Jordan, the only officer to face criminal charges in regard to the abuse and torture of prisoners shown in the photos from Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
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An unnamed "former senior intelligence official" told Hersh that in dealing with the crisis created when the Abu Ghraib photos were released, the "basic strategy was 'prosecute the kids in the photographs but protect the big picture.'"

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@!$%# UGLY