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To: average joe who wrote (42634)	5/7/2004 12:21:13 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793731

I would like to expand a bit on a post I made earlier...I just sent the following to some close friends. I accept that keeping the boss informed is important, yet Rummy has done enough and enough good to be allowed a few errors. We are learning. Think about it, how many wars on terror have we waged? How many battles against terrorists have we won? The Iraqi leaders being interviewed on TV are satisfied with us punishing the perpetrators. I am having difficulty accepting America's response to this incident. I have seen, read and heard of far worse hazing incidents at American Universities (Colorado) and high school hockey teams (my own). IMO we are kissing too much butt. What really concerns me is the extent to which the Administration and their spokesmen have allowed themselves to be put on the defensive. Also, no one seems to be asking why those specific detainees were being detained. Remember when, in Afghanistan, several hundred prisoners were allowed to keep their clothes on? Later they pulled out weapons from under their clothes and proceeded to launch a firefight that took American lives. Has everyone already forgotten Mike Spann's death? It seems, if our people would have made them disrobe it would have done immeasurable harm to those poor Islamic militant extremist types who vowed to kill all Christians, kill all Jews and kill all Americans. We certainly wouldn't want to insult them. We might not be loved as much as we are now in the Islamic militant extremist world. I can tell you with certainty that stripping POWs and taking POW's pictures is, has and will continue to be done by all armies. This time it was not done according to protocol...that hardly seems sufficient to warrant an American national crisis. Today, Ted Kennedy demanded we tear down the Al Ghraib prison because of abuse. I demand we tear down the Chappaquidick bridge for the same reason plus moral turpitude and murder. unclewest