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To: LindyBill who wrote (106363)	3/28/2005 10:38:48 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

Now you exaggerate it to "They were tortured to death." You should be more careful in your statements, IMO. In percentage terms, if you round it out to the nearest 1000th of 1 percent, 23 out of 50,000 detainess, the percentage is zero. This is not an indictment of the US Military. The fact that the military is able to weed out 99.99954% of psychopaths is a tribute to their professionalism. But, there is absolutely no reason to defend the 00.00045% psychopaths that are (and are inevitable in any large group of young people) in the military. More importantly however, I wanted you to read the whole article to get to the part about the American Revolution: George Washington and the American soldiers and civilians fighting alongside him in the New Jersey campaign not only reversed the momentum of a bitter war, but they did so by choosing "a policy of humanity that aligned the conduct of the war with the values of the Revolution. "The Americans recovered the mutilated corpses and were shocked," wrote Mr. Fischer. The British commander simply denied responsibility. "The words of the British commander, as much as the acts of his men," wrote Mr. Fischer, "reinforced the American resolve to run their own war in a different spirit. ... Washington ordered that Hessian captives would be treated as human beings with the same rights of humanity for which Americans were striving. The Hessians ... were amazed to be treated with decency and even kindness. At first they could not understand it." The same policy was extended to British prisoners.