For Lagouranis, problems include "a creeping anxiety" on the train, he said. The 45-minute ride to Chicago's O'Hare airport "kills me." He feels as if he can't get out "until they let me out." Lagouranis's voice was boyish, but his face was gray. The evening deepened his 5 o'clock shadow and the puffy smudges under his eyes.
Not long ago in Iraq, he felt "absolute power," he said, over men kept in cages. Lagouranis had forced a grandfather to kneel all night in the cold and bombarded others in metal shipping containers with the tape of the self-help parody "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction," by comedians Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo.
"At every point, there was part of me resisting, part of me enjoying," Lagouranis said. "Using dogs on someone, there was a tingling throughout my body. If you saw the reaction in the prisoner, it's thrilling."
I can't seem to muster any compassion for this guy or his dumb as a sack of hair girlfriend who likes him 'cause he's "gentle". Wakeup asshats! You deserve no pity because you did your job without complaint and now are suffering from guilt. Had any moral system kicked in before you decided to play the Iraq version of the Jack Bauer Pauer Hauer then you might not feel so bad now.
Seems like this guy who thought he was wearing the white hat just figured out that he's been twirling his evil mustache instead. Had he used the bit of grey matter between his ears he might have figured that out before waterboarding became part of his skill set.
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