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| A Detailed Account of the Life of Army Spec. Charles Graner |
| 2004-06-05 |
| From The Washington Post .... Army Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., 35, ... has become the infamous guard of Abu Ghraib. But there are other, lesser-known images of him: In 1991, he was a 22-year-old soldier in Saudi Arabia, calling home at all hours to see if his wife was there. In 1992, he was working at a county prison in Pennsylvania with guards who acknowledge beating up prisoners as a means of control. In 1994, he made a fellow prison guard sick by spraying Mace into his coffee. In 1997, he was accused by his wife of threatening to kill her. In 1998, when he was working as a guard in a state prison, he was accused by one inmate of slipping a razor blade into his food. And in 2001, he was accused by his now-ex-wife of grabbing her by the hair, dragging her out of a bedroom and trying to throw her down the stairs. .... From interviews with people who had close contact with Graner at various points in his life, however, a portrait emerges of someone who went from "always smiling, always laughing" to angry by the time he left for Iraq. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #4 Garrison and JM, both of you are way off base. Spec. Garner shouldn't have been allowed into the Army. He was a fuck-up in the Marines, a fuck-up as a prison guard and a fuck-up in life. He is no way shape or form a hero. He's a brute and a swine. The good soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors who serve with honor, who obey the rules, who treat civilians with decency, who fight with valor -- they're the heroes. Not Garner. I want Garner punished. Severely. I want the Top Sargeant who failed to keep Garner under control cashiered, and I want the company commander to resign his commission. Both of these individuals failed the Army. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-06-05 5:32:15 PM |
| #3 That's your call - I hope you don't LIKE the bastard, because there's no way I would, regardless, due to his personal life. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-06-05 12:26:02 PM |
| #2 The murderous animals held in that prison ought to feel lucky all they got was slapped around abit. Pork chops and bacon should have been the only thing on the menu there. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-06-05 9:15:03 AM |
| #1 Who cares what the man did in his personal life? If he had fist-intercoursed those hooded Iraqis -- indistinguishable from the hooded freaks who offed Berg's head -- at abu ghraib to death, I would still consider him a HERO. |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-06-05 8:51:00 AM |