"I was ordered to pose"

Amazing - Lynndie England is claiming that she was ordered to pose for the now-infamous pictures. Her contention is that her CO wanted her to pose as part of the effort to humiliate the prisoners into giving information.

Unfortunately for pfc. England, logic tells us otherwise. Her line is that they told her to point at a prisoner's genitals and smile for the camera, so they could show the pictures to more important prisoners and frighten them. This is patently ridiculous!

Let's face it, you could easily photoshop a picture like this if that's your purpose - besides the fact that it's a goofy plan in the first place. Yes, this was humiliating for the prisoners involved. But frightening for other prisoners? Highly doubtful, and unless our intelligence officers are completely stupid (I don't think they are), they would know that.

Besides, let's have a smell test on this: Imagine a scenario in which you could imagine you, or anyone you know, ordering someone to strip prisoners to humiliate them into talking. Not a huge stretch, right? Now, imagine you or anyone you know ordering a private to pose for pictures with those prisoners. Not quite so easy.

I call bullshit on this excuse - England and her friends are going down, they know it, and they're throwing whatever they can out there to try and save themselves. They figured no one would care, these were "terrorists" anyway, and it would all be in good fun and soon forgotten. Now, they're not going to get away with it, people do care, many of these prisoners were innocent (Senator Inhoffe's assertions notwithstanding), and their careers are over.

Oi. Somebody get us some leadership at the Pentagon, would you? McCain for SecDef!