Reply #2: It also leads in the NYT today

[jamesinca]

Sad thing is, they are making this out out be a bunch of bad apples, a few enlisted men that have attitude problems. Nobody is pointing fingers at Gonzales, Bush , Chenney, or Rumsfeld. And somebody should just blame Wolfowitz for licking his comb after running it through that greasy hair of his. I truly hate these people.
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Central Figure in Iraq Abuse Goes on Trial
By KATE ZERNIKE

FORT HOOD, Tex., Jan. 10 - Prosecutors unveiled new graphic photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison on Monday as they tried to portray the soldier accused as the ringleader of the abuse scandal there as a sadistic thug who punched detainees for sport, posed smiling next to the bloody face of a detainee and bragged about forcing an Iraqi woman to let him photograph her naked.

In opening arguments here at the court-martial for the soldier, Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., his lawyers insisted that he was simply following orders and using lessons from his civilian life as a prison guard to try to maintain discipline in a war zone. Using naked and hooded detainees to make a human pyramid was much like what cheerleaders "all over America" do at football games, the lawyer, Guy Womack, argued, and putting naked prisoners on leashes was much like what parents in airports do with their toddlers.

"They're not being abused," Mr. Womack told the jury of 10 soldiers, "they're being kept in control."

But prosecutors called soldiers who testified that Specialist Graner had laughed and joked as detainees moaned, screamed and begged him to stop beating them.