Former Army reservist Lynndie England hasn't landed a job in numerous tries: When one restaurant manager considered hiring her, other employees threatened to quit.She's tried dyeing her dark brown hair, wearing sunglasses and ball caps. She even thought about changing her name. But "it's my face that's always recognized," she says, "and I can't really change that."England hopes a biography released this month and a book tour starting in July will help rehabilitate an image indelibly associated with the plight of the mistreated prisoners."We were just pawns," said England, who's appealing her conviction and has her next hearing in July. "People were just playing us."
Meh . . . after the book tour she can go on Dancing With the Stars . . .
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I heard her interview on NPR over the weekend. She maintained (and was not challenged) that she 'did what she was TOLD to do' and the narrator maintained that [high-level officers of the MP Company] regularly approved of the MPs' activities with the prisoners.
The NPR narrator/interviewer maintains that what occurred at AbuGhraib was "policy" of the Bush Admin.
NEVER have I heard such things before. Obviously, this woman will (cough) re-arrange the truth for her own purposes. But for NPR to make the assertions it did, without corroboration or challenge, is disgusting.
I have no idea whether she's telling the truth or not (about being some sort of pawn). However, given all the shenanigans that numerous public officials here in Detroit have been getting away with, I'm kind of glad to see public disapprobation in action.
(A columnist here wrote a lengthy piece about how Madoff's wife is persona non grata in her old circles, right down to the salon where she used to get her hair done, and wondered why Detroit officials aren't being shunned like she is. I wonder, too.)
Although I do not see that as prisoner abuse but humiliation, I am not sympathetic to England's plight, or her 'I was following orders' excuse.
As a veteran, and one who went through an intensive Naval Justice Legal course in the military, If an order by a superior is inherently unlawful, questionable, or issued for personal gain, the UCMJ provides protection for the one receiving the orders, both before and after the fact.
Take your punishment, and deal with it.
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