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pan:
you have this story from the guy, i assume.
it reads to me like a rationalization of the breakdown of his marriage than a story about what happened in iraq. i am agnostic about this, btw---i haven't the faintest idea what the situation might have been, what this guy might have done or not done.
but there must be more to it---either in iraq in terms of context, way it was told, something---or something about that relationship.
fundamentally, the story makes no sense.
it may be that these folk are not the chandelier's brightest bulbs and that the marriage broke down over a sustained bout of projection and name-calling, i dont know.
but the story is about the relationship between these two people, really.
the "torture" question arises in that context and seems to refer to that context.
for example, was he on duty at abu ghraib?
not everyone who did a turn there did interrogations, but at least if that was the location, the story would make more sense..
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