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...most notorious torture chambers were used on Capitol Hill as an opportunity to highlight problems of executive decision making over a number of aspects of the mission in Iraq. And the buck has, not surprisingly, landed at the door of the architects of the mission - Rumsfeld and the civilian leadership at the Pentagon...
...warned against thinking that only a fraction of Palestinians are in favor of civilian attacks. “I cannot support the empirical fallacy that only a small number of Palestinians support terrorism,” Dershowitz said...
...that trust may be shaken not so much by the photographs themselves, but by what they reveal about the level of oversight in the operations of U.S. forces. For example, two of the interrogators accused of abuses in the Abu Ghraib scandal are so-called "civilian contractors," men hired by private U.S. firms to whom the military has outsourced such sensitive functions as interrogating suspected insurgents. One of the companies named, the Virginia-based CACI, is still advertising jobs for interrogators on its web site, and the job definition specifies that the candidate would work under "moderate supervision." The phrase...
Your report on the sadistic and brutal killing of four American civilian security guards in Fallujah, Iraq, was a reminder of how horrific war can be [April 12]. Perhaps in the future we should think more carefully before waging it. The Vietnam conflict taught Americans not to go to war without sufficient reasons. It is a lesson that we remembered for many years. And when we forget it, Americans die needlessly. WAYNE MICHAUD Bristol...
...desire to undo religious despots who have hijacked the Islamic revolution. "What the people wanted was something different," he says. "Who were [the mullahs] to destroy it?" Iran's clerical court recently threatened to defrock Kadivar if he persists in voicing such views. Although he is free to don civilian attire now that he has left the Qum seminary, he says he will keep wearing his clerical robes as a symbol of defiance. If his message spreads, he could be instrumental in showing people beyond Iran how they can be good Muslims and good democrats too. --By Scott MacLeod...