"...fooling around."? Well foolish, anyway...

Well, foolish, anyway. And barbaric. And criminal. And...well, sometimes words fail.

PFC Lynndie England's back in the news, and she's not helping anyone - even, or especially, herself.

"Everyone in the company from the commander down" knew what was going on. "The pictures were shown to anyone who wanted to see them. Cpl. [Charles] Graner told me he showed them to his platoon sergeant and platoon leader."

"Cpl. Graner would personally stitch up detainees if the wounds weren't too bad. He would take pictures of his work. One particular incident, Cpl. Graner ran a former Iraqi general into a wall and split his lip. Cpl. Graner stitched up his lip."

"We thought it looked funny, so pictures were taken." It was "basically us fooling around."

And here you thought she didn't want to appear in any of the pictures has claimed she was ordered to pose for, because it was "weird."

Don't look to Lynndie for contrition, though.

She said there were many other abuses, but "I can't remember all of them." She said she didn't think guards should be punished because "we did what we were told."

In contrast, there's Sgt. Hydrue S. Joyner, who seems to get it.

"If an MI [officer] told me to make detainees masturbate together, I would cut off his air supply," said Joyner. "This is not acceptable instruction to me. There is no special training to know this behavior is wrong, except 'life.' "

Exactly so, Sergeant.