Why all these personal attacks? Just because people disagree about what's right in a war doesn't mean they should be treated as enemy. Just because someone has said something that, perhaps quite rightly, annoys you is there any value at all in responding in the same terms?

So far as I can see, everybody here is disgusted and appalled at the murder of that young man; and everybody is appalled and disgusted at the vile things (including beating to death) that were done to prisoners in the care of the Americans in Abu Ghraib, .

Does anybody disagree with either part of that? Is there anybody who thinks that any of that was really all right, and all's fair in love and war?

Could I suggest that if anybody feels driven to write an angry post, involving a personal attack on someone posting here, they write it in a file which they save on their computer, and only send it next day, if they feel it still deserves sending.