DEAR PEGGY

DEAR PEGGY: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR peggy-north@monthlyherald.com

JOHN KERRY IS OFFICIALLY EVIL! WHO SAID SO?

Dear Peggy: Please print this. "Sorry John, looks like the church is going to take votes away from you for being inherently evil.

Politicians who act "consistently to support abortion on demand" risk "cooperating in evil and sinning against the common good," the U.S. Catholic bishops said in a statement released in Washington late June 18. "Those who formulate the law" are obliged in conscience "to work toward correcting morally defective laws," they said in a 1,000-word statement titled "Catholics in Political Life." "The killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil. ... To make such intrinsically evil actions legal is itself wrong," they said.

Noting that "the question has been raised" whether it is necessary to deny Communion to Catholics in public life who support abortion on demand, the bishops said that "all must examine their consciences" about their worthiness to receive Communion, including with regard to "fidelity to the moral teaching of the church in personal and public life." They added that "given the wide range of circumstances involved in arriving at a prudential judgment" in that matter, the bishops "recognize that such decisions rest with the individual bishop in accord with established canonical and pastoral principles." "Bishops can legitimately make different judgments on the most prudent course of pastoral action" in confronting individual cases, they said, but the bishops share an "unequivocal commitment to protect human life and dignity." They urged Catholics in public life to protect the unborn and oppose legal abortion "lest they be guilty of cooperating in evil" -- which in Catholic teaching is itself sinful. They said they would counsel Catholic politicians who consistently work against restrictions on abortion that their support for abortion on demand "risks making them cooperators in evil in a public manner." John Kerry claims he is a Roman Catholic. The American Citizen, Washington, DC, USA.

ABU GHRAIB ATROCITIES. THE MILITARY IS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH. THERE IS A COVER UP HERE!

Dear Peggy: The American general who was in charge of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison claimed she was being made a scapegoat for the abuse of detainees and said the current head of the jail believed prisoners should be treated "like dogs." I don't believe her. She lying to her teeth. In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio broadcast , Brig.-Gen. Janis Karpinski said Maj.-Gen. Geoffrey Miller _ who was in charge of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and now oversees U.S. prisons in Iraq _ told her last autumn that prisoners "are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them." As you know, Peggy, Karpinski was suspended last month from command of the 800th Military Police Brigade after she and other officers were faulted by army investigators for paying too little attention to the prison's day-to-day operations and not acting strongly enough to discipline soldiers for violating standard procedures. Now, several soldiers are facing courts martial over abuse allegations at the jail. In her defense, Karpinski has said that interrogations at the prison were not under her command but were run by a military intelligence unit that was "under increasing pressure to get more, as they call it, actionable intelligence.