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Alright, the President apologized for the actions of a small minority of soldiers who abused some Iraqi prisoners. Some may use semantics to try to deny this, conveniently ignoring the fact that he said this: "I told him I was sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners..."

Now what do we do? Why not start by thanking God that we have a President that is on his knees seeking His guidance? Why not thank God that we have a President with a heart growing in faith and sanctification to see evil as evil?

Woe to you who call evil good!

Abusing a human being is not good; it is evil, and war does not change that. Scripture is full of godly men who were warriors, but they did not resort to immoral actions in war. They did what was right and RELIED on God to grant them victory. They did not torture prisoners of war.

The fact that the Islamicists will not apologize for their brutality does not matter! Because one person does something wrong, it means we also can? Come on! The President is concerned with recognizing when our soldiers do something wrong, so sorry if he pisses you off for trying to take an ethical stand instead of worrying about poll numbers. Got a problem with that?

I do not care if this is war. We correct our errors even in a time of war. This is America, not Iraq. We have higher standards. And if you don't like it, you can get out.

If some of you honestly think that we need more of these depraved people in our military, you put shame on this site. You put shame on this country. You put shame on the human race.

Let's go forward from this incident with a recognition that we need to fix our mistakes when we make them, and it doesn't matter whether it is in peacetime or wartime.

rw, my brother, well said.

General R.E. Lee fought like a rabid dog but said that it is a good thing that war is so horrible, else we would grow too fond of it. Lee understood that nations and their armies are moral agents with moral responsibilities. Accordingly, a nation's leader has a moral obligation to conduct warfare, as horrible as it is, in a noble and upright a manner. Since the days of Gen. Lee, nations have adopted a pragmatic and amoral attitude toward warfare. Such was not the case in our earlier days.

If a commander took chickens from a farmer's barn, a General Lee or Gen. Washington would have apologized for the error and recompensed the farmer. Like those great men, Pres. Bush, recognizes the need for a moral compass on the battlefield.

Like you, I thank God that I have such a godly man for my President. It would have been easy to say nothing. W is my kind of man.