So some dirty interrogators desecrated the Koran. My, my! What a crime!

But how I wish the Muslim criminals had chosen to do that despicable kind of thing to us, instead of blowing up our twin towers. After all, the ideas and values filling a book continue to exist and continue and continue, no matter what happens to paper pages; but, murdered bodies of innocent little children and blameless adults can never have life breathed back into them.

Certainly our interrogators did not do as much evil to the Muslims and their Koran as did the Japanese to their American and other captives in the South Pacific. The Commies during the “Police Action” in Korea--now, they really knew how to interrogate their prisoners! I recall reading all about their skillful work as revealed in records my long ago Congressman sent me from Washington, D. C. The information concerning the findings of a U.S. government commission on the study of the returned Americans was shocking. It was easy to understand why our government officials thought it necessary for a long time to conceal the findings concerning the torture and brainwashing of American troops.

Sadly, the study revealed that, for the first time, in the history of the U.S., some of our military men became turncoats, aided the enemy and actually were instrumental in the torture and deaths of their fellow prisoners. The Communist brainwashing techniques, evidently, were known about earlier in that period of conflict, and were exposed in a special manual presented to military men enroute to Korea, but for some inexplicable reason, withdrawn before most of the men were able to read it.

So Americans and the enemy are now all screaming out at the attacks on the Koran? Where were their cries of outrage, once it was revealed that Americans were forced by Communists to sit naked on large blocks of ice for days? Where were those cries of indignation when it was learned that Americans were subjected to hideous forms of torture designed, in some instances, by Russians and implemented by their Red Chinese compadres?

A little mistreatment of a book held dear to the hearts of certain folks is a far, far cry, say I, from unmitigated torture so evil that it twists the very hearts of all who learn about it. Such torture was seen in the South Pacific, perpetrated by the Japanese on our Americans at War there. Finding your fellows—Marines and sailors beheaded with their sexual organs stuffed in their mouths, or barely alive with head still on, but mouth just as full, as a part of the psychological warfare program of the Japanese—now, that is real desecration. Living for months in cages so small that body movement is grossly restricted—that is desecration, not only of a body created by God, but of the soul within that body. How does such compare with flushing a book down a toilet or smearing a bit of bodily waste upon a book?

Forgive this All American girl for now being horrified at Koran mistreatment in efforts made to prevent the enemy from destroying more of our flesh and blood –the sons and daughters whom we birthed and sent to battle fields of sand.

Just what kind of idiots expects America to play nicey-nicey with the enemy and be successful in this battle of them against us? Gentleman rules are very nice, for sooth, but only for gentlemen. “I won’t shoot you in the butt, if you don’t do the same to me” may be an effective deal with someone who has grown up with the same value system you have, but is totally ridiculous when one attempts to employ it with folks convinced that if they bury you in the sand and play golf with your head –what a wonderful game! --or with folks who feel that if they can blow you and your babies to high Mecca, even if it involves them going there, also--—that, too is wonderful. All those virgins and all that hashish! Who could ask for anything more?

And if you think the Iraqi folks are just like most Americans, think again. You must not be aware that Iraqi soldiers had a pregnant woman in a vehicle, pretending distress as a lure for three American soldiers guarding a checkpoint. The driver of the vehicle detonated a bomb and blew to pieces all three soldiers, the woman and himself. In another case, an Iraqi N.C. O. posed as a taxi driver and seriously wounded four American soldiers at a checkpoint.

The feigning of civilian, non-combatant status is expressly forbidden by the Geneva Convention signed by Iraq.

And what about the Iraqi use of women and children as human shields in the town of Hindiyah? And the hiding of Iraqi troops in hospitals and school and conducting military operations in them? What about the Iraqi’s use of hospitals as a base for some of their death squads and using ambulances to transport their paramilitary fighters? And what of their storing of large caches of weapons and heavy military equipment near their mosques and historical and cultural landmarks, their stocking children’s schools with grenades, military uniforms, and their hanging of anyone waving a white flag at coalition forces, performing other acts of revenge, sending execution squads to reluctant combatants, cutting out tongues of some of their own soldiers, and beheading entire groups of people., forcing citizens to fire on troops or have their children killed, kidnapping children and holding them as hostages, forcing children to fire on U.S. troops, executing groups of children, starving their American prisoners--—nine days in the case of Jessica Lynch.

But the one that I find most interesting is the Iraqi military disguising themselves in American uniforms, accepting the surrender of other Iraqi forces and killing them.

I can draw no conclusion but that when dealing with persons who consider death a grand reward—-threatening them with death will not deter their violence toward Americans. Killing some detainees, will not cause their buddies to alter their plans for violence or to tell what they know about murderous plans for America’s future. Very little is left to learn what must be learned if more twin towers are to remain safe.

For those new to America Americans of the Muslim faith, I am awaiting to hear them chastising the Muslim terrorists. I wait to hear them castigate those religious leaders of theirs here in their American mosques, offering aid and comfort and money to those who wish to enslave/destroy you and me.

If goodness and mercy droppeth, like the gentle rains from heaven into hearts only on one side of this grand police action, and that side is our side, we may all pat our sensitive, compassionate little American selves on the back while we wrap our young and very dead veterans in their burial shrouds or stuff them in those nice, nice black bags. We may heap accolades upon our wee bleeding hearts, and ourselves, while we stare at the piles of ashes that once were our hospitals and our children’s schools. We may mourn at our children’s gravesides.

We may feel our tongues crack for want of pure, unpoisoned water, but great comfort will, surely be ours, because we can pride ourselves on the fact that we have played nicey nicey, and, willingly, allowed a certain portion of our population (unassimilated, I surmise) to dictate to this nation how terrorists and their adherents should be interrogated.

Contact Joan Hough at joanhough@aol.com.