"Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year?" asked the lawyer of Charles Graner during the Army specialist's court martial on Monday. Referring to the infamous, naked, Abu Ghraib POW-pyramid, attorney Guy Womack wondered aloud, "Is that torture?" I might add that I strongly suspect that several gentlemen that I'm familiar with would pay between $80 and $140 to be forced to wear a dog-collar and parade around in women's undergarments, but this is hardly the type of argument that wins acquittal in court martial cases. Johnnie Cochran, Guy Womack isn't.

That is just about the dumbest argument I have ever heard. I am fiarly certain that I would have chuckled out loud had I been on the jury.

I just found out about this from this recent entry at the Antiwar.com blog.

The news article linked to from there, about Womack's statement, is quite disturbing.

This is all a sick situation.

I have, on several occasions, found myself donning women's attire. I have fashioned a g-string out of the bloodstripe on my blue dress uniform and use my flak jacket as a teddy.

After doing so, I contemplate the merits of the famed "don't ask, don't tell policy". Those were the days.

I have to believe the lawyers chances of getting a point across may have improved had he mentioned, Chinese pyramids, where a circle is formed as people sit on each others laps and form a free-sitting chain? just a thought?