Specialist Charles Graner Jr is the first soldier to go on trial on charges related to the Abu Ghraib jail scandal, which came to light last year with the release of demeaning photographs of prisoners, including pictures of naked inmates apparently being paraded on leashes and being stacked in piles. The lawyer defending him at the court martial in Texas, Guy Womack, said: “Don’t cheerleaders all over America make pyramids every day?” He added: “It’s not torture.”
Right. But let’s see.
They’re clothed.
It’s consensual.
They’re not being imprisoned.
And um – Good God, what a way for a lawyer to reinforce the stereotype of being a totally insensitive asshole?
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