A new monster-in-chief
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1212647,00.html
Lynndie England's snapshots have provided the latest hate figure to
help obscure the bigger picture
Mary Riddell
Sunday May 9, 2004
The Observer
Private Lynndie R. England, trailing an Iraqi prisoner on the end of
her dog leash, is the most loathed woman in the world. Cigarette in
mouth, finger stabbing towards the genitals of naked victims, she is,
according to one newspaper, 'the trailer trash torturer who shames the
US'. Queens of violence, from Penthesilea of the Amazons to Uma
Thurman in Kill Bill, can attract awe, but Lynndie is no upmarket
she-devil. Instead, the response to the Abu Ghraib pictures sandwiches
her somewhere between Myra Hindley and Maxine Carr in an all-women
axis of evil.
Mary Riddell
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