"Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?" Guy Womack, Graner's attorney, said in opening arguments on Monday to the 10-member U.S. military jury at the reservist's court-martial.
This peach also compared dragging prisoners around by a leash to "parents putting tethers on toddlers."
Apart from saying the methods were not illegal, Graner's defence is that he was following orders. "He was doing his job. Following orders and being praised for it," Womack told the court...
Apparently, Womack knows something intriquing about prison procedures here at home, too:
A tether is a valid control to be used in corrections," he said. "In Texas we'd lasso them and drag them out of there."
(emphasis mine)
I can't wait for Womack to explain to us that when US soldiers attached wires to the arms, legs and/or genitals of prisoners, they were just "grounding the kids".
Oh, and as for that old Broadway saw, "Break a leg..."
Source: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=651856
Prosecutors also presented shocking new videos and photos from Abu Ghraib prison, including forced group masturbation...
After prosecutors screened grainy video that was previously not made public showing naked and hooded Iraqi male prisoners masturbating, Frederick said Graner and England joked about the incident.
"He (Graner) said something to the fact that it was a present for her birthday," said Frederick, who, like Graner, was also a prison guard in civilian life.
How about it, folks? should we take up a collection to send attorney Womack on a one-way ticket to Guantanamo? Or just nominate him for attorney general instead?
(With that kind of moral clarity, he's a shoo-in for Congress should he ever decide to run in his home state).