I have no sympathy for them. These POWs. What our troops did was wrong and there is no denying that fact. But I'll be damned if Im going to sit here and sulk for them. They are where they are because they chose to follow an animal and kill for him.
Unfortunately Morph, 70-90% of the people rounded up were wrongly arrested and released after the abuse was used to 'soften them up'
before interrogation.
Up to 90% were arbitrarily detained and that is the greater problem since these thousands of wrongly arrested and imprisoned people will forever hate the U.S. for the treatment they received and will pass on their hatred to everyone they know.
I am absolutely certain that if every male in your family were detained without cause and subjected to the same abuse, you would forever hate those who did it to you. Especially if those doing it were your local police who you thought were there to protect you.
I think the recently published caricature of Rumsfeld gives cause to consider his performance.
On WMD, he was wrong.
On troops requirements, he was wrong.
On post-invasion occupation planning, he was wrong.
On cost, he was wrong.
On setting the proper command atmosphere, he was wrong.
I fail to see how this warrants a 'superb' job performance evaluation by his boss.
Others have characterized my political tendency to be just slightly right of Atilla the Hun, and I think Rumsfeld should be fired.
Henry Kissinger, who can hardly be called a liberal, long ago characterized Donald Rumsfeld as a scary person. He said that Rumsfeld was a person totally without a conscience and conscience is what makes people take the high road and the long view.
