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• Thursday, February 16, 2006 04:27 PM

  Abu Ghraib is a big mistake

  Publishing these pictures is necessary. However it is also necessary to tell people that we have betrayed our country's history and standards. We were always the country that was generous and horrible even to our enemies. We were the ones who made friends instead of enemies. That has been our protection in the world for 200 years. When and if Iraq gets its act together they can demand damages and reparations from us for invading a country without weapons to defend themselves, much as was demanded of germany after WWI and led to their bankruptcy and degradation that led to WWII. Setting a standard of invading any country that insults is dangerous if any country ever feels strong enough to conquer us.

  I feel instead of wailing like lost little babies in the wake of 9/11 we should have laughed it off and rebuilt saying "these criminals are little boys committing tantrums". Instead we have wasted lives and resources to the breaking point and showed all terrorists how easy it is to hurt the great United States.

  Britain fought terrorists for decades and finally had to negotiate an agreement. Israel has been fighting terrorists since 1948 and still hasn't learned to make an agreement that will allow them to live in peace. Fighting terrorists is not a virtue, but an exercise in stupidity.

  Some day our descendants will curse the names of the people who led us into this but they will die fat and happy with all the money they have "earned" from letting out war contracts. Why do we let people make money off of our loss of face in the world?

  —jane
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