Reply #6: This guy was lucky. He finally got to go home! [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Can you imagine what has happened to the ones who were less well-placed, socially, and easier to keep indefinately?

(snip) Qais al-Salman went home to his grief-stricken mother who had long believed her son was dead. No American had contacted her despite her desperate requests to the US authorities for help. Not one of the Americans had bothered to tell the Danish government they had imprisoned one of its citizens. Just as in Saddam's day, a man had simply been "disappeared" off the streets of Baghdad. (snip)

Maybe this experience is going to cause Americans to rethink their views of the German citizens who knew what was happening in concentration camps and "did nothing," as we were taught. This might challenge some of our national smugness before it's over.