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Article: Moral behavior: Prisoner abuse in Iraq; not Christian behavior
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- May 28, 2004
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I'm having trouble deciding: Was the letter by Jeff Spencer in the
May 20 Gazette - saying that Iraqis detained in U.S. military prisons
"should be interrogated and then swiftly sent to their Creator, the
Lord" - an attempt at sarcasm, or can he truly be as ignorant and
hateful as his letter makes him appear?
Based on the desperate attempts of the extreme right to minimalize
the horrendous revelations of the past few weeks, though, I must
conclude, sadly, that he actually is serious.
If Spencer would bother to educate himself to the known and
accepted facts, he would realize that the majority of the prisoners
at the Abu Ghraib prison - 70 percent to 90 percent, by some accounts
- are ...