"Pointy girls" lawyer says love explains Abu Ghraib abuse pictures

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21279992.htm

FORT HOOD, Texas, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Isolated amid the chaos and often bizarre life inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, Lynndie England posed in now notorious abuse photographs because she loved and trusted the scandal ringleader, her lawyer said at the start of her court-martial on Wednesday.

England, 22, who was pictured holding a leash to a naked Iraqi prisoner, was lured into posing for the photographs that caused worldwide outrage by Charles Graner, the father of her baby, said military attorney Capt. Jonathan Crisp.

"What mattered to her was her relationship to Corp. Graner," said Crisp, who added that Graner was her superior officer, was 14 years older than England and had worked as a prison guard.

"She thinks: 'I love him, he loves me, he's not going to do something to hurt me,'" Crisp said in opening arguments.

I thought I had heard it all

[bluestateguy]

1. I know how we can get to the bottom of that assertion

Release all Abu Grahib photos for public examination.

[NNN0LHI]

2. I like that. I can't define love but I know it when I see it

Yea lets see the pics so we can make up our own mind about this love stuff.

Don

[Sydnie]

3. AAR News reported today that

she was going for a mental illness defense. Are they trying to say that love is a mental illness? I have my days when I could agree with that :rofl: ... but they reported that they were going to cite mental illness that started in her childhood in her defense. :wtf: :shrug:

[expatriate]

4. Let's see.

First she tried "I was only following orders".

Then we heard about her learning disabilities.

Then she succumbed to peer pressure.

Then it was because she had a hard childhood.

Then she was mentally ill.

Now it's because she did it all for looooooove.

Nice kind of love.

Wonder what the excuse will be next week