Carol C: a challenge to you! Please direct us to any thread on the Mudcat where I have condoned prisoner abuse.

McGrath: of course I know Americans are capable of cruelty and abuse to others. I do believe that the majority of Americans denounce such treatment although it is evident that it did go on at Abu Gharaib.

Like some others, however, I do not jump on the U. S. as being the only offender, and I do not blame the U. S. for all of the ills of the world.

There may have been child prisoners at Abu Ghraib, I don't know with any more certainty that you folks do. You drag up some opinion piece from a publication that supports your POV and expect everyone to accept it just as you do. It is conceivable also, that children who may have committed crimes in Iraq SHOULD have been in Abu Ghraib. Some children DO commit crimes, right?

DougR

DougR