Media and Other Critics Gain Attention at Expense of Americans Guarding Fr

Dear Women's Division,
General Board of Global Ministries
United Methodist Church

I understand that you are about to start a campaign relating to, among other things, human rights protections and the detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

I can speak with some authority on the subject since I served as the chaplain to the Joint Detention Operation Group in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from May 2004 until March 2005. As a United Methodist I have a keen sense of world justice and while serving in Cuba sought to be faithful to our social principles and their concern for social holiness. So I am not speaking to you as a military chaplain but as an Ordained United Methodist.

I have a great concern for our news media sources today. There was a day when the truth and protecting our nation from harm took precedence over being the first to break a story. Now it seems that accusations, no matter how harmful, no matter the source, no matter the possible consequences, are enough to use them as weapons upon the innocent as well as the guilty.

http://www.ucmpage.org/news/um_gitmo.html

but this guy's merely an apologist for the Bush Administration and everything they stand for. He lives in a dream land where he "knows" that "only a few bad apples" are causing problems, blithely ignorning the fact that Gonzales himself wrote memos condoning torture. And to say that all this cynicism is caused merely for political gain--bet this bozo also thinks that we were right going into Iraq! But its obvious that he's drunk the Kool Aid and wants to suppress any dissention from total praise of what Bushco is doing.

If he wants to know what really happens...why doesn't he consult Seymour Hurst and ask him to see all the pictures? Then write another article and apologize publicly for his errors.