patfromlogan
6/15/2004 10:34am,
video link to interview:England Says Superiors Told Her She Was 'Doing Great' on http://news4colorado.com/nationworld/local_story_132222538.html
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65771
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/herman/herman22.html
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/mag/040524_Issue/040515_Lynndie_vl.vmedium.jpg
If Jessica Lynch was the pure alabaster Joan of Arc, the perfect Barbie doll, homecoming queen from smalltown America, Lynndie England represents her exact opposite, a cigarette-dangling, wise-cracking dame in desert-camo dungarees. That Jessica's story was pure bullshit propaganda, hyped like the phony Saddam statue and the rest of the lies, is reflected in Lynndie. She sits now in jail (or sorry, detention; makes it sound like jr. High doesn't it?). Shouldn't the American media whores who devoted so much time to the deification of Jessica Lynch, now be required to interview at length the female flip side of our little imperial war?
Somehow the media is NOT reporting her one interview. It is being ignored. It should be on the front pages. It should help impeach Bush and get Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and crew fired and/or imprisoned.
Lynndie England’s explanation when asked was the chain of command.. She told a Denver TV station that she had been ordered to perform such sordid acts as pointing for the camera at a detainee’s genitals while signaling thumbs-up. England sometimes felt “kind of weird,” she said, but “to us, we were doing our jobs, which meant we were doing what we were told.”
England’s company came to Iraq to work as traffic cops; they expected to go home after a couple of months. Instead they were put to work standing guard 10 to 16 hours a day, six or seven days a week in a prison filled to three times capacity.
In her interview with Brian Maas she said, "Well, I mean, they [the photos] were for psy-op reasons." She said, "And the reasons worked. I mean, so to us, we were doing our job, which meant we were doing what we were told, and the outcome was what they wanted. They'd come back and they'd look at the pictures, and they'd state, 'Oh, that's a good tactic, keep it up. That's working. This is working. Keep doing it. It's getting what we need.'"
"I still can't really believe it," England told Maass, referring to the photos. "They just told us, 'Hey, you're doing great. Keep it up.'"
Referring to the photograph of her smiling, England said, "I was told to stand here, point thumbs up, look at the camera and take the picture."
Maass asked England who told her to do that. England replied, "Persons in my higher chain of command."
"To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that,"
Lynndie England is simply the scapegoat for the felonies and lies, for the war crimes and sheer human waste that has finally overtaken and (hoefully) threatens to devour the Neocons and their supporters. Private England represents all the uniformed gunbearers seduced by the slogans of patriotism who were instead doing the grim, dirty work.
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65771
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/herman/herman22.html
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/mag/040524_Issue/040515_Lynndie_vl.vmedium.jpg
If Jessica Lynch was the pure alabaster Joan of Arc, the perfect Barbie doll, homecoming queen from smalltown America, Lynndie England represents her exact opposite, a cigarette-dangling, wise-cracking dame in desert-camo dungarees. That Jessica's story was pure bullshit propaganda, hyped like the phony Saddam statue and the rest of the lies, is reflected in Lynndie. She sits now in jail (or sorry, detention; makes it sound like jr. High doesn't it?). Shouldn't the American media whores who devoted so much time to the deification of Jessica Lynch, now be required to interview at length the female flip side of our little imperial war?
Somehow the media is NOT reporting her one interview. It is being ignored. It should be on the front pages. It should help impeach Bush and get Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and crew fired and/or imprisoned.
Lynndie England’s explanation when asked was the chain of command.. She told a Denver TV station that she had been ordered to perform such sordid acts as pointing for the camera at a detainee’s genitals while signaling thumbs-up. England sometimes felt “kind of weird,” she said, but “to us, we were doing our jobs, which meant we were doing what we were told.”
England’s company came to Iraq to work as traffic cops; they expected to go home after a couple of months. Instead they were put to work standing guard 10 to 16 hours a day, six or seven days a week in a prison filled to three times capacity.
In her interview with Brian Maas she said, "Well, I mean, they [the photos] were for psy-op reasons." She said, "And the reasons worked. I mean, so to us, we were doing our job, which meant we were doing what we were told, and the outcome was what they wanted. They'd come back and they'd look at the pictures, and they'd state, 'Oh, that's a good tactic, keep it up. That's working. This is working. Keep doing it. It's getting what we need.'"
"I still can't really believe it," England told Maass, referring to the photos. "They just told us, 'Hey, you're doing great. Keep it up.'"
Referring to the photograph of her smiling, England said, "I was told to stand here, point thumbs up, look at the camera and take the picture."
Maass asked England who told her to do that. England replied, "Persons in my higher chain of command."
"To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that,"
Lynndie England is simply the scapegoat for the felonies and lies, for the war crimes and sheer human waste that has finally overtaken and (hoefully) threatens to devour the Neocons and their supporters. Private England represents all the uniformed gunbearers seduced by the slogans of patriotism who were instead doing the grim, dirty work.