Shame on the US
published: Wednesday | June 2, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I PICKED up The Sunday Gleaner and looked at the headlines and some of the highlights on the other sections of the paper and settled down to read, deliberately leaving the section with the grotesque images of humiliation meted out to the Iraqis by the U.S. soldiers for last.

I knew for sure that I would not have the frame of mind to continue reading the rest of the paper if I had gone straight to that article. After reading the other areas and finally getting to the horror stories of the kind of treatment that the natives of Iraq had to endure at the hands of the foreign invaders, who had denounced the same kind of abuse they accused Saddam of committing, my stomach turned and my spirit became so angry that I was contemplating to avenge some of the atrocities I gleaned to have happened, on behalf of the Iraqis.

Not being an Arab or a Muslim and feeling the way I did I can imagine what these people are feeling and thinking. I got a jolt from the God in me and said I should not be thinking along this line and subdue the devil in me and not join this madness of cruelty to humanity. Shame on the U.S. and the U.K. They should all pack up and leave forthwith.

I am, etc.,

E. ANTHONY THOMAS

everdoo37@yahoo.com