Gimme an "I". Gimme a "D".

Gimme an "I". Gimme an "O". Gimme a "T".

While I am not even going to entertain the argument whether the abuse at Abu Ghraib constitutes torture or not, I will say that I hardly think the prisoners shown in the "naked pyramid" can in any way be compared to "cheerleaders".

Is this guy absolutely nuts or what? Maybe the attorney should be on trial, as I am sure he would get off under some temporary insanity defense.

A lawyer for Charles Graner, accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, on Monday compared piling naked prisoners into pyramids to cheerleader shows and said leashing inmates was also acceptable prisoner control.

"Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?" Guy Womack, Graner's attorney, said in opening arguments to the 10-member U.S. military jury at the reservist sergeant's court-martial.

Graner and Pvt. Lynndie England, with whom he fathered a child and who is also facing a court-martial, became the faces of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal after they appeared in photographs that showed degraded, naked prisoners.

The prosecution showed some of those pictures in their opening argument, including several of naked Iraqi men piled on each other and another of England holding a crawling naked Iraqi man on a leash.

Womack said using a tether was a valid method of controlling detainees, especially those who might be soiled with feces.

"You're keeping control of them. A tether is a valid control to be used in corrections," he said. "In Texas we'd lasso them and drag them out of there." He compared the leash to parents who place tethers on their toddlers while walking in shopping malls.

First he compares them to cheerleaders and then he compares putting them on a leash with parents who tether their children in the malls? Now I know he is nuts. Charles Graner should ask for a new attorney, and he should do it, a.s.a.p.

While I am not even going to touch the "leash laws" that vary from state to state :evil:, I will state that I highly doubt the prisoners were put on the leashes to keep them from running down the corridor to check out the Disney store. They were not "tethered" to prevent a pervert from snatching them either, as the perverts were the ones holding the other end of the tethers.

I wonder if Guy Womack went home last night and thought, "Shit, did I really say that crap? Damn I'm a f***ing idiot!"