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Letter of the day: Will captured U.S. soldier avoid the Cheney treatment?

July 22, 2009 at 11:56PM
This video frame grab taken from a Taliban propaganda video released Saturday, July 18, 2009 shows Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho, who went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan June 30. The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that the American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. The Defense Department released the name of Pfc. Bergdahl one day after he was
Pfc Bowe Bergdahl, photographed from a Taliban progaganda video released July 18. Bergdahl went missing from his base in Afghanistan on June 30. (Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

We must remember that if the Taliban resorts to sleep deprivation, stress positions and water boarding in interrogating Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier it holds captive (Star Tribune, July 21), it is just following guidelines set by Vice President Dick Cheney. DON BAILEY, BLOOMINGTON

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