I read an article about a group from Bates College that wrote a letter to Congress urging for more investigations into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal (June 23).

Why is it that the people who are not over in Iraq are the ones demanding that those who fight to protect our great nation be judged for the steps they take to defend us?

Granted, the abuse that went on in Iraq may not have come from soldiers who were exercising their better judgment. But what about the insurgents who keep beheading innocent men or those who are killing women and children? Should we not take extreme steps to get important information from them?

Maybe we can give them some milk and cookies and sit them down for a chitchat and just explain to them why we need the information.

What’s interesting is that these soldiers have very little time to make important decisions that save lives and protect countries, and then we have days, months and even years to sit here and pick them apart. Instead of sitting here and criticizing those in Iraq, why don’t the critics pack up and go to Iraq to handle the interrogations themselves.

Try the milk and cookie theory, it might work.

David G. Sardella, Auburn

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