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To: combjelly who wrote (312628)	11/27/2006 3:31:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572689

CJ, I'll just sum up in a few words here. The abuses at Abu Ghraib can be directly attributed to the enormous pressure to get intelligence on insurgents. Same thing with some of the stuff that went on in Gitmo. That and the fact that our troops are pressured to act as humanely as possible to an enemy that themselves have no human standards whatsoever. There's nothing wrong with holding our troops to such high standards; in fact, I agree that we should. However, I don't agree with taking isolated cases of abuse and highlighting it to the extreme, thereby making all of our troops look like the mass-torturing thugs that the rest of the world thinks they are. The truth is the opposite. Our soldiers are the best and the finest that the world will ever see. A few bad apples might spoil the entire bunch, but I see little good in the actions of politicians who will take those few bad apples and do whatever it takes to win back power, even if that means contributing to the decline of American troop morale and the image of America abroad. After all, what do you think foreigners are going to think when half of America is running on an "America sucks because of Bush" platform? "Wow, America is really introspective! We should emulate that!" Or "Hee hee, look at America, so weak and divided!" Tenchusatsu