Torture fallout and gravity

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By John Coomber

ADS1 Tuesday, May 18, 2004,Page 8

Jack Chua has a problem keeping a handle on reality (Letters, May 16, page 8).

Arrogating himself the position of spokesman for the majority of Americans who

he says think US Secretary

of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should not resign, he bizarrely claims that people know the actions of a few soldiers were probably wrong. With the graphic details plastered across the world's front pages and

expressions of outrage from governments far and wide (including the US administration), he thinks the soldiers were probably wrong?

However, there is more to suggest that Chua inhabits another planet. He must do, since he does not seem to be aware that the US was part

of that very same world that remained reluctant to condemn former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's brutal regime.

Removal from the US administration's list of terrorist states in 1982 was just the beginning. Saddam was further rewarded by a couple of visits from Rumsfeld in 1983, and by the resumption of diplomatic ties the following year.

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