20/20 tonight: Sabrina Harmon (Abu Ghraib abuser) to "Speak Out"

She has claimed that she was "ordered" by higher ups to commit the abuses. This could be interesting...

ABC - 10 p.m. EST.

Elizabeth Vargas talks with Sabrina Harmon, a U.S. soldier facing charges in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, who speaks out for the first time on television, telling her story exclusively to "20/20."

Looks like this could be good.

We (AF) are required to review the Law of Armed Conflict every year. It covers Geneva Convention, treatment of enemy combatants etc.

... how is a grunt supposed to know it isn't? After all of the hearings of both Gonzales and Rice, neither of them said that the treatment of abu Ghraib prisoners was a violation of the Geneva Conventions! Both claimed that these prisoners are not covered. Neither called the treatment 'torture.'

Therefore, if any orders were given to do this, just who the hell is supposed to call them "illegal"????

We are supposed to be bigger than that. As a female, there is no way I would have stood next to a bunch of naked men with their butts sticking up in my face.

I thank the goddesses above (or below) that I didn't have to confront this while I was in Vietnam, not that I didn't think about it. The whole "legal order" thing is a scam. Grunts aren't lawyers. Let's say one of the guys in Lt. Calley's platoon refused. Blam! Next? And Calley was one of a very few instances that was both more overt and became public. Things got a lot closer to the line over there. When the orders (verbal, of course) come down the line and are regularly and varyingly abusive, and you see various 'guidelines' that say it's OK to do various things that you never thought were OK (23 hours of no sleep, 'stress' positions, nudity, etc.), you really have to partition things into 'the world' and where you are. They're two different places. You're not in Kansas ('the world') any more, Toto.

Maybe she'll argue that Abu Ghrayb was just a drug deal gone bad like her matthew shephard hatchet job...

Vargas can fry w/ the rest of them.