Dear Editor:
I just feel that need to vent and speak my peace. Why in the world is the media/government/Pentagon (and whoever else for that matter) releasing the gruesome and disturbing pictures of Iraqi prison abuse?
And don’t get me wrong. It is an absolute outrage of abuse and mistreatment of prisoners. Court martial the accused and punish them accordingly. But for goodness sake, why show the pictures to the world? Please take into consideration what this is doing to the security of the American people. It’s bad enough that these middle easterners hate us to the core. They hate everything about us, especially our democratic society. The extreme fundamentalists/fanatics will feed off of this. The hatred towards us all will grow and fester to a boiling point.
Please, I’m asking you all to write to Congress to express your feelings on this ugly situation. By showing these pictures, we are infuriating the terrorists even more. For the sake of the American public’s security, I beg of you not to release any more pictures. Just get rid of the abusers.
Hoboken resident