Carol Lee Willis was spot on in her May 10 Readers' Forum letter when she called the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse immoral. Every military person abroad is indeed an ambassador of the United States, and most in Iraq and Afghanistan do us proud.
What about those psychological tests she advocates? If that MP private's Nuremberg defense is true, they were ordered to abuse the prisoners by MI and CIA personnel, and psychological evaluations are already standard in those agencies' recruitment processes.
Besides being immoral, there's a practical reason for not abusing prisoners. Coerced confessions are inherently unreliable. When you torture someone, they don't tell you what is, they tell you what you want to hear. If our intelligence community really is relying on such unreliable information, it may explain their weapons of mass destruction blunder.
Clark Larsen
Holladay