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Thread #69284   Message #1177432
Posted By: CarolC
03-May-04 - 11:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
the girl in the photo pointing to the hooded Iraqi prisoner is Lynndie England from Fort Ashby Virginia.
While Lynndie`s actions have been roundly condemned by the civilised world, back in her hometown she was being toasted as a heroine.


I think that would be Fort Ashby, West Virginia. West Virginia is a separate state from Virginia. I used to live a couple of miles outside of Fort Ashby, West Virginia, for about two years. What is being reported about how they are responding to this situation doesn't surprise me at all. It's a very small town in a pretty isolated area, and the people are mostly inclined to get their information from the more right wing media sources. They aren't bad people, for the most part. They probably just believe the propaganda they've been fed all of their lives about the relationship the US has to the rest of the world. They live in a pretty small world, for the most part.