Dear DF,
I first want to thank you for your blog. Discovering it about a year ago changed my life; having had the privilege of living in the United States for three years between 1989 and 1992, I share every bit of your love for this great country and I did feel homesick and isolated here in France.
Today I want to express my sympathy and my gratefulness for the American armed forces. I claim to know the American spirit pretty well and I find those allegations of torture difficult to believe. I will mot deny that there may have been a few cases of misconduct but to call them "torture"? The whole thing seems so un-American...
On the other hand, we must not forget who the accusers are: leftist organizations and prisoners who themselves are terrorists and former torturers. So who are we going to believe? I know there are alleged pictures, but everybody knows they are so easy to forge.
And we must not forget the barbary and the atrocities the soldiers of the coalition have witnessed since their arrival in Irak; we can only imagine what they have endured and it is no wonder some may have overreacted.
Anyway, I have no doubt that, if I were to be "mistreated" in a prison, I would much rather be in an American one than in an Iraqui one under Saddam...