Like looking in the mirror for you, ain't it?
At a dingy Fort Ashby saloon, the consensus was that England, the daughter of a railway worker, did nothing wrong. As one regular, Colleen Kesner, told reporters, "A lot of people here think they ought to just blow up the whole of Iraq. To the country boys here, if you're a different nationality, a different race, you're sub-human. That's the way girls like Lynndie are raised.
"Tormenting Iraqis, in her mind, would be no different from shooting a turkey. Every season here you're hunting something. Over there, they're hunting Iraqis."
Its population is mostly poor, barely educated and white. Most of the townsfolk don't understand the issues in Iraq and why the pictures of members of the 372nd Military Police Company abusing prisoners has caused a furore.
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