Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world.
Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in U.S. court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment.
The trial is scheduled to begin Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, and will be the first time that Abu Ghraib survivors are able to bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury, said Baher Azmy, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the plaintiffs.
I guess maybe I need help because I couldn’t parse it. I’m still trying to and I’m still not getting it.
“…of this that is”
of this that is what? huh?
Significant portion || of those that even remember this || that is.
The “that is” is a clarifier, similar to “is what I meant”.
Maybe a comma would’ve helped.
Even after my comment you can’t figure out what I’m saying? Maybe you were a tiny bit confused in the beginning but… You’re still lost?
Interesting.
I think I figured it out
I was just having trouble understanding what the sentence was referencing. Once I tossed a comma in, I was able to understand that you were referencing the original Abu Gharaib event. The use of ‘that is’ without a comma to create a pause (which would be present if it were spoken) was confusing to me, because it seemed like there was something you were intending to reference in the sentence that I didn’t see. My brain read it and went “this that is… what?”, as in “What is this that?”
One missing comma and a sentence broke your brain? And from there it took you this long to figure out what I was saying?
Are you ok?
Taken alone, I think that sentence is confusing without a comma.
A tiny grammatical error should not hurt your brain this bad dude. You’re kind of telling on yourself and grasp of the English language.
Ok, well sometimes things might make sense when spoken and you are able to add inflection and pauses. They don’t always come across in the written form. I found it confusing and I still do. I guess I’m sorry for finding it confusing?
If you were confused that’s one thing but you had to open this up with that condescending asking me if I’m all right. Which is really weird because, when it comes down to it, this all boils down to your piss-poor reading skills.
Don’t go through life being condescending over your inability to use first grade context clues.
Maybe ease off there making fun of someone’s reading comprehension skills when you fucked up basic comma usage.
It reads like some one stroking out without the comma or like a word or the subject of the sentence was forgotten.
Commas are important people!Commas are important, people!