The neocons who talked up this conflict helped create Lynndie. So did those who, like Colin Powell and much of the parliamentary Labour Party, failed fully to voice their doubts. Hers is not a parable of vicious women or bad-apple soldiers. It is not a cue card to remind ourselves that the Baathist atrocities of old would have seemed much worse than this, if only they had lent themselves to a Kodak moment.
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