To the editor:

Suppose Iraqi forces had captured some Americans, shackled their hands and feet, blindfolded them, stripped them naked, made them kneel down on a cement floor, and interviewed them like this for eight days, with virtually total sleep deprivation, loud music blaring and bright lights shining on them when they were not being interviewed. Can you imagine what would have happened, how the American people, our president, our media would have been up in arms? But this, we are told, has happened countless times now in Iraq, with us being the interrogators.

It is hard for me to understand that our president and our high Army and Marine officers would allow such things. But it is totally beyond my comprehension that the American public and the American media hardly take any notice or make any critical comments on it.

Many of the people, so treated, were found innocent and eventually released. Can you envision how they, their families and their friends feel about having been “liberated” by American troops, “freed” from tyranny, and introduced to “democratic rights and freedoms?”

Harry G. Shaffer,

Lawrence