I
believe it helps to occasionally get my opinions in the local newspaper. while
I can print what I want in my blogs, The Wichita Eagle reaches a lot more
people than I can reach. If I get a reaction to it, that is even better. So I
was glad to get my letter printed in The Wichita Eagle:
The newly liberated land in Iraq is turning out to be a
hell hole for all those who did anything to cooperate with the ISIS government
before it fell. People have been given ridiculously long prison terms and they
are being executed for simply having had a job that in any way helped the ISIS
officials who ruled over that part of Iraq for the last few years.
There has been a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) that
criticized Iraq and the autonomous Kurdish authorities over mass trials of
suspected ISIS group militants.
It would be easy to just claim that this is Iraq and this
is what passes, in that culture, for normal behavior. But the truth is that it
was the U.S. armed forces that trained the Iraqi troops and led their armies to
remove ISIS from all Iraq territory.
The Iraq Army is a part of the government that the U.S.
built from the ground
floor up. In other words this is an extension of the U.S. government
and armed forces.
I keep hearing that we must thank our military people for
defending this country and our freedom. I hope our freedom does not rely on
such repressive regimes.
STEVE
OTTO, MAIZE
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