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To: KonKilo who wrote (113497)6/16/2009 11:03:46 AM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542259
 
>>Lynndie England<<

She was following orders (like Wm. Calley of Charley Company in My Lai), and was probably considered expendable by higher ups. She was in the picture after all. Not the brightest bulb and just another body in the meat grinder.

Was there a full bird colonel involved somewhere, calling the shots like in Apocalypse Now? Almost certainly. I can almost hear the words from his mouth, probably from his makeshift office less than 100 yards away.