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Different reasons, yes,

but it was because of a man.

And when you join the military,

no matter what anybody says,

it's a man's world.

You have to either equal a

man or be controlled by a man.

If you want to be their

equal, you got to be strong.

They're going to

try to control you.

You need to step up and tell them,

you know, show them who's boss.

"I'm not gonna take that.

I'm not gonna let you power me.

"You know, control me because

I'm a woman and you're a man.

"It's not gonna happen."

Even though it's the military.

I mean, hell, if you're in

the military, you got a gun.

Use it.

If I would have thought about

that then, by God, I would have.

But I was blinded by

being in love with a man.

Graner, he's

really charming.

If you didn't know him

and you just meet him,

you'd be drawn

in to him.

And in a crowded room,

he'd be the one to look at.

He would draw

the attention.

If the attention is not on him,

he'll get it there.

That's what he does.

He thrives on that.

If you're not paying attention to him,

he'll make comments about you

and this and that,

you know.

Whatever you wanna hear,

he'll say it. And he knows.

He knew. And I was, what,

He was 34.

He had 14 years more

experience than I did.

So he knew what

to say, what to do.

And I was dumb enough to fall for it.

I should have listened.

Everyone tried to tell me,

"He's too old for you.

He's a bad guy."

But I didn't

believe them

because I believed him

for some reason.

Can't figure it out now.

The population was

just simply growing

but nobody really had a

plan on how you release

a formerly known as

"suspected terrorist" or an

"associate of a terrorist."

General Wojdakowski told me after

the first intake of prisoners

that this was going to

go on for several weeks

and at the end of it we might have

that we would be

responsible for.

And I said,

"Don't you think you should have

shared that information with me, sir?

"You know, I mean, we don't

have any resources to provide

"for the 200 prisoners in

the cells out at Abu Ghraib.

"And now you're going

to give us 1500 more.

"What's the release

procedures?"

He said, "You are not

to release anybody.

Do you understand me?

"If any one of these

prisoners gets released,

or ends up out on the street,

"I'm coming after you."

They would go out in

the middle of the night

and sweep up every single, you know,

fighting age male and lock them all up.

That's why you hear

the stories about

sons and fathers

and, you know, nephews

all getting locked up.

That's what they would do.

Imagine someone coming to your

town and taking all the men in it.

They would come in, like, on

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