Letter Of The Day

Rear Adm. Harry Harris has described the suicides of three prisoners at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay as an act of "asymmetrical warfare." Harris would have us ignore the fact that these men have been held for four years without charges, contact with an attorney, contact with their families; they are subject to torture and "stress positions" with absolutely no idea if or when they will ever get out.

These were not acts of desperate men who had lost all hope, according to Harris.

Rather, they were carefully choreographed and conducted military operations intended to strike at the United States and our freedoms from their prison cells. They attacked America by killing themselves.

What a load of dung. I do not know anyone foolish enough to drink that Kool-Aid. You exemplify everything that is wrong with the U.S. military and America today.

— Larry Wohlgemuth, Vietnam-era veteran, Ankeny.

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