A person wrote a letter to the White House complaining about the
treatment of a captive insurgent (terrorist) being held in
Guantanamo. Attached is a copy of a letter they received back:

TheWhite House
1600Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington,
D.C. ,20016

Dear Concerned Citizen:

Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the
Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.

Our administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was
heard loud and clear here in Washington. You'll be pleased to learn
that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like you, we are creating a
new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the
"Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for
short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have
decided to place one terrorist under your personal care.

Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation
under heavily armed guard to your residence next Monday. Ali Mohammed
Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for
pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of
admonishment. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some
assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure
that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you
so strongly recommended in your letter.

Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your
sensitivity to what you described as his "attitudinal problem" will
help him overcome these character flaws.

Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural
differences. He will bite you, given the chance. We understand that
you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted
terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can
extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail
clippers. We do not suggest that you ask him to demonstrate these
skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a widvariety of explosive devices from common household products, so you
may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this
might offend him.

Ahmedwill not wish to interact with your wife or daughters (except
sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property.
This is a particularly sensitive subject for him, and he has been
known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with
the new dress code that Ahmed will recommend as more appropriate
attire. I'm sure they will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by
the bhurka - over time. Just remind them that it is all part of
"respecting his culture and his religious beliefs" - wasn't that how
you put it?

Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you, who
know so much, keep us informed of the proper way to do our job.

You take good care of Ahmed - and remember...we'll be watching. Good luck!

Cordially...Your
Buddy,

Don Rumsfeld

Wolves or watchdogs, its hard to say from which the people had most to fear.