Word: ghraib
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...inhumane treatment at Abu Ghraib becomes even more abhorrent if one considers that the U.S. State Department regularly releases reports on human-rights practices around the world. Bush and his associates should perhaps spend less time sticking their noses into the business of the rest of the world and more time teaching a few basics to the soldiers they send on "liberation" missions. Anastasia Adamidou Nicosia, Cyprus...
...When Bush decided to invade Iraq, I wasn't sure about the weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but I trusted the Americans. When no stockpiles of WMD were found, I turned against Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. After the scandal of Abu Ghraib, I am unable to find the words to express my disgust. I will never forget that Americans liberated Italy, but Bush does not reflect the America of the days of World War II. I hope he will be sent packing in the next election and the U.S. will return...
...Ghraib jailers claim they were only following military orders. But as the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis showed, that is not a justifiable excuse. No individual possessing even an ounce of humanity would execute such orders. But the American soldiers did. Bush would have us believe that those troops do not represent American values. Yet they do show a moral black hole in the American psyche. Oke G. Pamp Tweed, Canada...
...Unbearable Reflections In "Their Humiliation, and America's" [May 17], essayist Nancy Gibbs wrote that the pictures from Abu Ghraib forced Americans "to see ourselves as the world sees us"?as oppressors without respect for other countries' citizens, their culture or history. I don't believe that Americans are that way, but the scandal has given jihadists a gift of incalculable value. How many gruesome, savage executions will they commit as retribution for the humiliation and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners? Scott Blanchard Napoleonville...
...photo images find the retina of the heart and never go away: the fallen G.I.s on Omaha Beach on D-day, the napalmed girl in Vietnam and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. And now the photos of depraved acts perpetrated against Iraqis by Americans at Abu Ghraib have soiled and overwhelmed the sensibilities of good people everywhere. Rich Houseknecht Greensboro...