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...Congress has an obligation to investigate and assess responsibility at all levels of the Executive Branch from the highest officers on down for the abuses in Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons,” the letter stated...
...Their Humiliation, And Ours" [May 17], essayist Nancy Gibbs wrote that the pictures from Abu Ghraib had painfully 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...
...Perils Of A Righteous President" [May 17], columnist Joe Klein criticized Bush's moral certainty and stated that "faith without doubt leads to moral arrogance." But faith with doubt is anything but faith. The atrocities that occurred at Abu Ghraib were detestable, but if this nation valued the integrity, morality and righteous Christian faith of our President, the acts at the prison would never have taken place. In a country that arrogantly prizes unaccountability, it is no wonder that a few of our service members acted in such a cruel and heinous way. ELIZABETH COOK Pinckney, Mich...
...fact is, America's sense of itself has taken a stunning blow. We are still recovering from the last week of April, when the Abu Ghraib photos were revealed and the U.S. military chose not to fight the Islamic radicals in Fallujah (a retreat compounded by last week's decision not to pursue Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army). Taken together, those events represent a coherent pattern of behavior--that of a schoolyard bully, who tortures the weak and runs away from the strong. This is, sadly, the way Abu Ghraib and Fallujah are perceived by our enemies...