"Cheerleaders all over America make human pyramids every day . . . "

[Lex]

Can you freakin' believe this?

A quote from the courtroom today in the case against the alleged ringleader at the Abu Grahib prison . . .

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"Defense lawyer Guy Womack said Graner and his comrades were rewarded when they softened up detainees. "The more aggressive they became, the more information they got and the more praise they got," he said.

Womack played down the photographs that showed naked prisoners stacked in pyramids.

"Don't cheerleaders all over America make pyramids every day?" he said. "It's not torture."

http://www.wral.com/news/4068144/detail.html

[tk2kewl]

1. And on the internet there are cheerleaders making naked pyramids too!

[Disturbed]

6. Do those cheerleaders also..

get beatings, attacked by dogs?

This guy is absurd;also claims his client was "only following orders. No doubt that he was but uh...remember that is not an excuse to commit sadism, abuse and torture.

Will there ever be trials for the higher ups that ordered the sadism, abuse and torure?

[driver8]

15. Hey -- people get attacked by dogs everyday...

What's the big deal? Just a little harmless fun...

I cannot believe the callousness and stupidity of these people sometimes. Just when you think they have said the dumbest thing they could ever say...they manage to top it!!

[Webster Green]

2. Graner has been shown on TeeVee grinning like an idiot.....

Entering or leaving the courtroom. Looks like he's really proud of himself.

Words fail!

[ohioliberal]

3. And guess who the biggest "Cheerleader" of all is?

Asshole *

[Lex]

5. Yup.

Head Cheerleader George W. Bush.

[bush_is_wacko]

4. I'm sure my husband and son would love to see NAKED cheerleader

pyramids at the next football game we attend, but I don't think the right wing nuts this guy obviously belongs to would allow that. What a freaking pig! Is this guy for real?

[Lex]

7. I think I would've had to throw something at him

if I was there in the courtroom when he said that. No kidding is he a pig!

[Florida_Geek]

8. Well the first witness kills the Cheerleader bit

"Today, in the first day of deliberations, Specialist Matthew Wisdom, the first witness, described a prominent photo from Abu Ghraib that showed the muscular Specialist Graner holding a detainee as if he were about to strike him in the face.

The witness said Specialist Graner cocked his arm while the picture was taken, and then he punched the detainee. Asked how hard Specialist Graner hit the prisoner, Specialist Wisdom said, "If I was that detainee, I know that it would be very painful.""

[stevedeshazer]

9. So this...

equals THIS?



Bullshit. Sick bastards.

[ignatius 2]

11. Its too bad you aren't one of the prosecutors, maybe you should send them

those pictures. What's the old saying,pictures speak louder than words? They sure do. This administration has taken America to a new low. Trumped up wars,torture,lies,death,destruction and now kidnapping and assassination squads.

What stuns me is that most people simply do not seem to care.

It is still our country and these horrors are being done in our name.

[stevedeshazer]

14. I'm glad you saw the value in these photos

The comparison shreds the bogus argument that these acts are not torture.

[jmowreader]

10. Guy Womack is very lucky I'm not the judge in this case

For I would have Bitch-slapped Guy Womack right across the fucking room.

This may take the prize for the stupidest thing said in a courtroom since the start of the war.

[Hippo_Tron]

13. If I were a judge my gavel would be used to beat people like him

I'm sure that those things can HURT.

[0rganism]

17. Oh come on, people get hit by solid objects every day

(or something like that)

[Lex]

21. Heh.

Good one.

[Florida_Geek]

12. Why is this guy smiling

[renaissanceguy]

16. Cut off his genitals and make him eat them.

Fucking sick bastard.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.16200506

[sea dee]

18. can cheerleaders sue?

can cheerleaders accross America sue him for his remark?

[leesa]

19. I hope they remember this if someone grabs their daughters and forces

them to make a pyramid under threat of death. I'm SURE they would feel the same about that. Republicans are the most immoral people on the face of the earth!

[sea dee]

20. the GOP hates gays

comsidering how anti-gay most of the GOP is this defense is insane.