That radio talker must be on drugs


To the Editor: A remarkable sense of proportion is demonstrated by Rush Limbaugh in his equating the prison atrocities with fraternity hazing. Some fraternity-forced nakedness, sleep and food deprivation, dog attacks, flashlight sodomy and suffocation (12 homicides under investigation).

Would he be as blithe if it were Iraqi guards and American prisoners? If he was a prisoner, without any illegal oxycontin?

Again his rationale of guards "letting off steam" because of the stress they're under won't wash. It wasn't just "a few bad apples" one time. It was numerous times in several areas. And these people weren't troops in Baghdad streets being bombed and shot at; they were in a totally safe place -- a prison. The man's completely bonkers.

Wasn't Senator Inhofe outrageous saying he was outraged by the outrage over the prison torture? He claims the Iraqis were murderers. How can we know that? Hasn't he seen the Red Cross report that 70 percent to 90 percent don't even belong behind bars?

It's beginning to look as though the highest ranking soldier to be prosecuted for the abuse is Pvt. Beetle Bailey.

Joseph D. HaleyHendersonville


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