Reference articles:

Liberal or Conservative? by June 
Consevative vs. Liberals and Other Truths by Average American 
Reply To Average American by fasteddie 
 
RE: Point 1A.

Snippet: "There were individual military personnel who, acting on their own, ... These people were rooted out and punished to the fullest extent of the law."  Average American 
 
Snippet: “The events at Abu Ghraib could not have escaped the eye of multiple Watch Officers, the O-I-C of the prison or her superiors. That there is no documentation of the abuses shows a conscious CYA up the chain of command and no one can tell how high it went. Are you aware that CIA interrogators were running the show at all the prisons in Iraq.”  fasteddie

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Letter to the Editor:
 
I see another Abu Ghriab atrocity has been perpetrated.  Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted of conspiracy and maltreatment of detainees by a jury of five male Army officers after two whole hours of deliberation.   (“Private found guilty of Abu Ghraib abuse”, A4, September 27, 2005)
 
“England’s trial is the last for a group of nine army reservists charged with mistreating prisoners …”  These Americans tarnished America’s image worldwide, but especially “…in the Muslim world despite quick condemnation by President Bush”.
 
Disgraceful things happened then and there, but the greater disgrace is ours.  We:

    • enabled a national “leadership” with little concern for true American values such as those contained in the military code of conduct, our Bill-of-Rights, or the Geneva Convention;
    • acquiesced in  a shroud of secrecy that hides agendas that play fast and loose with our American values;
    • called up a bunch of American kids, civilians in uniform, and granted them license that we had ill equipped them for;
    • failed to gird our children roundabout with the armor of our American values to support ethical behavior in such an alien environment.   

We have good leaders, such as Senator John McCain.  I don’t always agree with him, but I would follow him into battle. 
 
Not so this disgraceful gutless “leadership” that without a doubt sanctioned and promoted the alien environment, then fed our kids into the moral grinder while they hid in the shadows.
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Shame on this travesty of chicken hawk leadership, many of whom never served in the military.  Shame on Rummy.  Shame on Dicky.   Shame on Commander-in-Chief Dubya in particular for ducking and covering his ass with the ass of some 20 year old reservist from the back woods.  Some "War President".  Shame, shame, shame. 

And shame on you AA for supporting such unethical gutless wonders in the betrayal of our troops.  I don't want to lose faith in you, but this pushes the envelope.  Are you in fact made of nothing more than Bus***e (discovered in 2000 and thought to be fossilized ignorance, useless but very dangerous until excavated and exposed to the light of truth)?

Its no wonder the reserves, National Guard and army are having a tough time meeting their recruitment quotas.  Anyone with any sense wouldn't enlist under self-serving gutless cowardly leadership like that. 

By the way, AA - have you signed on for Bush's hobby war yet?  It's your patriotic duty and Uncle Rummy wants you!