PoLiTiCaLlY CoRrEcT

A person wrote a letter to the Pentagon complaining about the treatment of a captive taken during the Afghanistan war. Attached is a copy of a letter they received back:



Department of Defense

Washington, D.C.



Dear Concerned Citizen:



Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.



My administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington.



You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like you, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the "Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care.



Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence next Monday.



Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of admonishment. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter.



Ahmeds' meal requirements are simple, but we strongly suggest serving meals that do not require utensils, particularly knives and forks. Also, these should be "one-handed" foods; Ahmed will not eat with his left hand since he uses it to wipe himself after purging his bowels (which he will do in your yard) - but look on the bright side.. no increase in the toilet paper bill.



He generally bathes quarterly with the change of seasons, assuming that

it rains, and he washes his clothes simultaneously. This should help with your water bill. Also, your new friend has a really bad case of body lice that hasn't been completely remedied. Please heed the large orange notice attached to your detainee's cage: "Does not play well with others."



Although Ahmed is sociopathic and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his "attitudinal problem" will help him overcome these character flaws.



Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. He will bite you, given the chance, but his rabies test came back negative, so not to worry. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We do not suggest that you ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.



Ahmed will not wish to interact with your wife or daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. However, he will be eager to assist with the education of your sons; have available for their use several copies of the Q'uran. Oh - and rest assured he absolutely loves animals, especially cats and dogs. He prefers them roasted, but raw is fine, too, if they aren't more than 2 or 3 days dead.



Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you, who know so much, keep us informed of the proper way to do our job.



We think this watching over each other's shoulder is such a good way for people to interact that we will be sending a team of federal officials with expertise in your line of work to your place of business soon, just to help you do your job better. Don't be concerned that they have the power to close your business, seize your property, and arrest you for any violation of the 4,850,206 laws, codes, regulations and rules that apply to your profession. They're really there just to make sure you're doing everything the proper way. That is what you wanted, right?



Well, thank you for this opportunity to interact with such a valued member of the citizenry. You take good care of Ahmed ? and remember...we'll be watching.



Cordially...Your Buddy,



Don Rumsfeld

Recently, entertainer Pat Boone wrote NewsMax editor Christopher Ruddy a
letter regarding his feelings on Abu Ghraib and Iraq, the contents of
which are published here with permission:

Mr. Christopher Ruddy
Editor, NewsMax

Dear Chris,

Hasn't anybody got the guts to accuse the worst perpetrator in this
whole Abu Ghraib prison debacle - CBS and 60 Minutes II?

What do you call it when, in time of war, someone takes military
intelligence and turns it over to the enemy, who in turn uses it to kill
Americans?

Isn't that the definition of treason? Did Benedict Arnold do worse? Did
Julias and Ethel Rosenberg pay with their lives for something like this?

It has already been well established, and CBS certainly knew, that the
military announced to the press back in January that allegations had
been made concerning treatment of prisoners and were being investigated.

In March there was another announcement that the allegations were still
being investigated and certain service personnel at Abu Ghraib were
relieved of their duties and might be court marshaled.

In other words, while America was fighting a war, the military had
already taken the allegations seriously, were investigating them and were
taking steps to correct the situation. In other words, it was being handled, and handeled well.



These things happen in war on all sides, and though they are not excusable
they are kindergarten exercises compared to car bombs, ambushes, rocket
launchings and dangling burning bodies over bridges - and this is what the
interrogators at Abu Ghraib were trying to find ways to stop.

Freedom of the press is precious to us, but you can abuse any liberty and
stretch it out of shape until it becomes license, and concerned citizens
will call for limitations.

In this case, if CBS had really cared about the country, about our
military, about doing the right thing, they would have taken these
pictures, (which they had illegally) and asked the military and the
Pentagon what was being done about the abuses (Although they most likely
knew it, they would have been told that the matter was in hand and being
taken care of).

Indeed, a general implored them not to publish the pictures because of
what he knew would happen as a result.

CBS could have cared less.

In their mad competition for rating points, dollars, and seeing a great
way to blast the President and the war effort in Iraq which they have
continually denigrated and opposed, they broadcast they abhorrent pictures
- and not just to the United States, BUT TO THE WORLD!

Knowing full well that we were walking a tight rope, trying to fight a
war, quell disturbances and build a republic for Iraq in the midst of all
the terrorist resistance, CBS published these abhorrent pictures knowing
they would destroy completely our image and standing in the Muslim world.

And what about Osama bin Laden? What about the terrorists? What about
America's image with all our allies around the world? And what about
America's own self image and confidence in their leaders?

And what did the beheaders of Nick Berg say, just before they callously
sawed his head off while he screamed, "This is in retaliation for what
you Americans did to our people at Abu Ghraib!" And how did they know
about these interrogation abuses?

Though poor Mr. Berg blames George Bush and Donald Rumsefld, it is
incontrovertible that his son would be home with him right now had it not
been for the publication of those pictures. Mr. Berg is pointing his
finger in the wrong direction.

And as a direct result of CBS callous and patently unpatriotic action,
America is suffering great loss of prestige around the world, and will
for decades.

America has lost credibility with Muslims and the Arab world
internationally, perhaps forever; and every American life is in far
greater danger from terrorist reprisal, no matter who and where we are!

Freedom of the press is a cherished commodity, guaranteed by our
Constitution. But freedoms, if they are to be maintained and to have the
original meaning, must be treated with grave responsibility and
restraint.

For me, CBS has become "the enemy within", and I hope never to watch the
network again. I think most Americans ought to reflect on the results of
their irresponsible and unpatriotic behavior and perhaps narrow their
viewing options by one network. The next time America or Americans
suffer at the hands of terrorists, thank CBS.

Pat Boone
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P.S. As of today, May 21St, you can add Brokaw, NBC and The Washington
Post
to the list. Have these media pariahs gone mad?! Who'll be next to
be killed by (friendly) fire?

Senator Zell Miller: "We have got right now what I call the H.W.A., the hand wringers of America. They are pushing, pulling, shoving and leaping over one another, pointing their finger at America the terrible and lining up to make apologies to these poor, pitiful Iraqi prisoners. Of course I don't condone the things that went on there (Abu Ghraib prison) but I am not going to put on my sackcloth and join in this national Act of Contrition over it. You and I can remember when we were troops in the Marine Corp. and back then there was always that famous 10% who messed up or didn't get the word. I guess you know, and I know I, were often part of that 10%. Well here we've got 1/1000 of one percent who messed up big time and there ought to be swift and sure punishment and not at one of these justice of the peace type courts. Take it as high as it goes, let it all hang out, bottom to top, wash our linen in front of the world just like the hand wringers want and when you get down to it and all that is said and done, I think I-Man, it's going to show that it was really more silly and stupid and consensual sex than it was sadistic and sinister."

SHOW QUOTE OF THE DAY

Senator Zell Miller: "The two times I think I have been most humiliated in my life was standing in a big room, naked as a jaybird with about fifty others and they were checking us out, now that was humiliating. It was humiliating showering with sixty others in a public shower. It didn't kill us did it? No one ever died from humiliation." Imus: "Whenever I was naked I always felt sorry for the other guys."

Subject: Just another perspective

Think about this for awhile:


I am not condoning what happened to the Iraqi prisoners... however, I
think it is vitally important that in my head I have these matters in
proper perspective...



* Saddam had Iraqi men, women and children put to death in human meat
grinders on a daily basis...




*Saddam had people thrown off of 3-4 story buildings, while their
relatives were forced to watch...




* Saddam had people's tongues cut out, limbs chopped off, and even
be-headed, while their families were forced to watch...




* Saddam's sons, as well as other Administrators and military personnel
raped and! sodomized Iraqi girls, some as young as 8 years old, on a
daily basis...



* Saddam's regime indiscriminately put to death millions of Iraqi

citizens, during the term of his brutal dictatorship, as evidenced by
the mass graves recently uncovered in various parts of Iraq...




* Terrorists recently exploded several car bombs in Baghdad, killing 17
innocent Iraqi children and several dozen innocent Iraqi citizens...




* Terrorists have been killing American/Coalition soldiers on a daily
basis since we sent our troops, many of whom gave their lives on Iraqi
soil, used US taxpayer dollars to liberate the Iraqi people...




* Four Americans were killed in Fallujah, their bodies ! were burned,
mutilated, drug through the streets and hung on a bridge. ..while Iraqi
people cheered and stoned the bodies.................................... NO OUTCRY FROM THE IRAQI PEOPLE
OR THE ARAB COMMUNITY...


*Nick Berg is beheaded for the whole world to see, in a sickening display of violence...

AND NOW, A FEW IRAQI PRISONERS HAVE BEEN HUMILIATED (poor babies)...A
PAIR OF WOMEN?S UNDERWEAR PUT ON THE PRISONERS HEADS, A FEW NAKED
PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE IRAQI PEOPLE AND THE ENTIRE ARAB COMMUNITY GO
BALLISTIC...GIVE ME A BREAK!!!



As I said, I don't condone what happened to the prisoners...but until
the Iraqi's and the Arab Community gets their act together...I wish the
American news elite would stop being part of the problem and stop using
this story to the benefit of the Arab community.



I DON'T WANT MY PRESIDENT TO APOLOGIZE TO THE ARABS FOR ANYTHING! WE
ARE AT WAR!