Cheeleaders do it. So it must be okay

[bif]

Torture? Not if cheerleaders do it, lawyer claims
By Jenny Booth, Times Online

Sergeant Charles Graner
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.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1434680,00.html

[chelsea0011]

1. His defense attorney said this? Garner will get the max in sentencing

[bif]

4. I'd say it's time to get a new lawyer

What a lame-oh defense.

[ktowntennesseedem]

2. All we need now is a mascot and a really peppy fight song!!!

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Maybe I'll just scream!

:argh:

[MonkeyFunk]

3. People also put things up their butts. Just ask any ER nurse.

The "cheerleaders do it" arguement should have been laughed out of court, like when Fox sued Franken.

These people are disgusting. It shows how cavalierly they accept law-breaking and cruelty. Assholes, every one of them.

[Demit]

5. except cheerleaders are doing it of their own free will.

This seems like a Rush Limbaugh "they were just having fun" line of reasoning. How contemptible.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Do they do it while naked, handcuffed, and with feces smeared on them?

Jeez, these people's logic skills are amiss.

[saltpoint]

7. Yes. I heard this on NPR this morning.

Pyramid pile-ups were described by the defense attorney as "a control tool."

As euphemisms go, that's Number 6 with a bullet.

Graner is cooked.

[russian33]

8. So, did Bush do that when he was a cheerleader?

But seriously....I hope he got a smoking gun for a defense, cause if he based his case on that...buh bye.

[fishwax]

9. That sounds like satire

can that really be the best they've got? Guess we won't have to worry about him getting away with it.:nuke: