Reply #4: Did Lynndie England decide we should invade Iraq? [View All]

Is she making Department of Defense policy? Did she manage the prison? Did she crank up grandma's trusty old Singer and make the hoods herself?

One would think so, to judge from about 90% of what has been said about her here.

What she did was wrong and she should be punished for it. But only a fool would not recognize that people far more powerful than she were involved. And for all the talk of England's "white trash" status, which seems to inspire most of the comments about her, the people who got us into Iraq are mostly rich white guys with good teeth who went to the very best colleges and belong to the most exclusive clubs and have never set foot in a trailer.

By concentrating on England, and ignoring the roles of Bush, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, etc. we are stupidly taking the Republicans' bait. They would love nothing more than to portray this whole scandal as nothing more than the misbehavior of a few renegade hayseeds, and an awful lot of us here have fallen for it.