THE NYT HAS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE twisted lives of Lynndie Englund and Charles Graner. There is no mention in the article, or testimony, that Donald Rumsfeld himself showed up at Abu Ghraib and instructed the two to degrade prisoners and play sex games with them and each other.
Rather, the impression one gets from the story is that Graner and Englund were two peas in a pod, very much enjoying themselves as they turned the prison into their own private frat party. Still, the NYT couldn't resist this line:
To some, the grave misdeeds at Abu Ghraib, where the three soldiers worked for six months in 2003, have become a twisted symbol of the American military occupation of Iraq.
I'm not sure which I find more ridiculous. The idea that Abu Ghraib could possibly be as or more symbolic than Iraqi elections and the fabrication of a democratically elected government out of whole cloth, or that a person would actually look at both examples and arive at the conclusion implied in the article.
Of course we know who the "some" are. They are the same people who refer to the insurgents as "freedom fighters," and President Bush as a "terrorist."
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