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Friday, June 23, 2006
mike’s take on the torture cartoon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Normally when I do a cartoon, I let the cartoon speak for itself, but because this cartoon has generated so much controversy, I need to address it. On this issue, it shouldn’t matter whether you agree or disagree that going into Iraq was necessary. If we want to succeed in Iraq, we have to remember that our most powerful weapon, greater than any bomb we could drop, is our moral authority. Al-Qaida is evil and brutal. What they did to our two young soldiers … it seems unimaginable that human beings could do that to other human beings. Their brand of torture is light-years beyond anything the United States has been accused of doing. That said, the fact that we have deemed ANY form of torture acceptable to get information from our enemies has done irreparable harm to our cause. I doubt that the Iraqi people make such a distinction in their minds and that is very sad indeed.
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