Lynndie has been given a three year jail sentence and the Iraqis are furious.

IRAQIS have expressed fury over the three-year jail sentence for Lynndie England, the US soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in Abu Ghraib prison, saying it exposed American hypocrisy.

They said the sentence would have been harsher had she been convicted of abusing Americans.

At least according to the News.com report the Iraqi’s are furious but on closer perusal the report actually defines “ the Iraqis ‘ (which you are supposed to read as all Iraqi’s) as four locals. An opinion off the street in Baghdad makes a deceiving headline.

All of the Iraqi nation has now been cut to four. Obviously the editor told the hack to get out on the streets and find four locals willing to say they are furious. That’ll do.

The hack chose Akram Abdel Amir, a retired bus driver in Baghdad and labourer Muntasser Abdel Moneim for down to earth opinions with Munir Abdel Sahib, a university lecturer and Najaat al-Azawi, 55, a retired engineer for intellectual creditability.

“America should be ashamed of this sentence. This is the best evidence that Americans have double standards,” said Akram Abdel Amir, a retired bus driver in Baghdad.

It’s also the best evidence that the people writing the release have double standards.

“There are Iraqis in jail without any charge, just based on suspicion. But when it comes to Americans, the matter is totally different.”

True, there were, and maybe still are people in jail just based on suspicion but in some cases these suspicions become fact and there were some inmates implicated in blowing up woman and children.

Which is obviously nowhere as serious as holding a naked inmate on a leash in Abu Ghraib prison.

Fairly balanced reporting.

US soldier Lynndie England participated in humiliating prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison because she enjoyed it and had a sick sense of humour, a military prosecutor said today.

England’s lawyers have said she took part in the humiliation because of an overly compliant personality but Captain Graveline responded to that defence by showing a poster of her pointing derisively at an inmate’s genitals.

“What soldier wouldn’t know that that’s illegal?” he said.

This one.

Tacky, stupid, crass, brainless, dumb, foolish, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, unintelligent, unthinking or witless…yes, but illegal?

England, who faces up to 11 years in prison if convicted on all seven counts, was also shown in posters holding a naked prisoner on a leash. In previous statements, she had said the poses were a joke.

11 years for a victimless joke.

Lynndie is now the victim.

Major Mori has discovered a new defence for Hicks. He’s really a Pom.

“He told me he’d never felt very partisan about the Ashes and wouldn’t mind much if England took the series because his mum had never claimed Aussie nationality and still carried a UK passport,” Major Mori told The Observer.

Mori realizes this fact could delay justice further and exclaims;

“My jaw hit the floor. I asked him: ‘Do you realise that may mean you’re legally a Brit?’ We both knew that the implications of that could be stunning.”

I’m not sure that nationality will have much bearing on his defence but I’m happy to be stunned as well, so long as Hicks does his time in Britain and never darkens our door again.

It’s a win-win for Aussie and the Poms should expect some penalty for having the temerity to take the ashes off us.

Australian forces in Afghanistan have emerged virtually unscathed from their first combat missions, announcing they had inflicted heavy losses on anti-Kabul forces who attacked them twice last week.

Well done, guys.

Hicks defence team not ready for trial.

How many years do they want?