Ten years.

That’s the sentence Army Spc. Charles A. Graner Jr. received Saturday for the abuse he inflicted upon prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Ten years. It’s not a lot of time for the brutality exhibited during Graner’s trial.

Predictably, Graner fell back on the defense that he was just following orders when he and his cohorts physically and mentally abused detainees. He implicated officers up the chain of command and talked about rules of engagement that were contradictory, violent and repressive. He named names.

So far, four enlisted soldiers have pleaded guilty and there are charges against three others. Not a single officer at the prison has been charged with any crime, and they were not presented as witnesses during Graner’s trial.

Graner was convicted, demoted, kicked out of the Army and sent to jail. He deserves the punishment he has received. Justice has not been served.

Officers who were in charge of the prison and the policymakers who set the tone for abuse and approved tactics for interrogation that amount to torture must be held accountable. What happened at Abu Ghraib – and throughout Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay – did not begin or end with Graner. Neither should the investigation. Graner’s trial should be a beginning, not an end.