2, 4, 6, 8, Who Do We Appreciate? Torturers!

I'm speechless from this legal claim:

Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.

A lawyer defending Specialist Charles Graner, who is accused of being a ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, argued that piling naked prisoners in pyramids was a valid form of prisoner control.

Funny, I've never seen the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders perform their human pyramids naked (at least outside of the pages of Penthouse). Also, the "tie-electrodes-to-their-genitals" cheer is one they don't usually bust out. Not unless it's a close game, at least.

The other part of Graner's lawyer's argument is that their client was following orders from his superiors. I'd stick to that line of reasoning. It has the added bonus of probably being true. I still can't believe the public has swallowed the BS that Abu Ghraib was the work of "a few bad apples," who had access to all of the equipment used in the torturing, like hoods and leashes and attack dogs and electrodes, and who apparently thought very much alike to the other "bad apples" halfway across the world in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Bagram AFB, Afghanistan; etc.