Posted on 05/12/2004 7:32:58 AM PDT by MegaSilver
As most Americans wind up a week of frenzied news about the ''abuse'' perpetrated by 16 soldiers out of 300,000 rotated troops in Iraq, we learn of the horrendous beheading of Nick Berg, an American small businessman helping to build the infrastructure in that country..
Where is the rage, Mr. Kerry" Where is the rage Mr. Kennedy? Do we have a reaction from the Grand Dragon, Klansman Robert Byrd? Will Michael Moore be making a documentary to place the blame on the president? The perpetrators of this horrible crime have stated that it is in retaliation for the alleged abuses perpetrated on Iraqi detainees. This is a clear sign that those who have made much hay about what happened in that compound are to be blamed.
My friends in the community stood around my desk horrified as we watched the news break. The question on our minds was: When will the people of the United States understand that we are at war with evil. This is an evil like no other in our history, a powerful enemy who is bent on doing to all of us, what they did to that 26-year-old hero. Make no mistake about it, if they had each of us there we would suffer the same fate as Nick Berg, and it would be done in ''the name of Allah.''
The Senate Armed Services Committee is sitting around trying to make politics of a situation that most of us consider embarrassing at most. However, the enemy has seen the weakness in our media and our politicians. Seeing this, the barbarians perform acts like this in an attempt to weaken us even further. They want to strike fear in the hearts of Americans believing we will turn tail and run. The only problem is, they have misread the American people. This is something that we are not going to do.
This beheading is just an extension of the assassination by cowards who use bombs and sniper bullets to kill our servicemen. Maybe now, some will understand that we have an enemy that must be destroyed, not just conquered, and this must be done with haste. Where is the rage--indeed!
Rage lives in the hearts and minds of all real Americans, and I will not entertain any delusions of the nature of the beast we fight: it is plain evil. It will use any means to win, and we must be ready to use any means at our disposal to prevail. Otherwise, the beheadings will just be a small sample of what is to come for all of us.
We must mourn our dead, but we must learn from this terrible act to stop trying to politicize Iraq and to strengthen our resolve to come together to fight the enemy. One would think that the 9-11 experience would have been pivotal in unifying Americans. Sadly, it was not. The politicians have decided to divide us into two Americas for political gain. That is just plain wrong. We must remain one people, and stop allowing the leftist political feeders from trying to blame our president for the acts perpetrated by the terrorists that we are fighting.
As our election looms nearer we must do everything possible to make sure our country is led by a man of integrity, a man who does not flip or flop, a man who will bring the terrorists to justice and protect us as a people and as a country. The President of the United States needs to have the capacity to make the tough decisions and stand tall. The President of the United States must not to be a man who will turn our foreign policy over to others, or find fault with all we do. He must be a man who can bring out the best in us while bringing us together. All of this is true because we live in a time of great peril. We do not have the luxury of engaging in partisan one-upmanship.
This is a good read....points well made....
..but to call this young man who was definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time....a ..hero...is way out of line.
My heart hurts for what he went through, and I grieve with his family....
..but our heroes are those in American uniforms fighting to protect us from thugs & terrorists like this!!!!!
The word hero is too carelessly thrown around!
Most likely won't be any.
The poor guy probably didn't even mean to be a hero, but that's beside the point. Watching those subhumans screaming "Allah akbar" while they cut his head off tells you all you need to know about them and their "religion." They're evil, and it's evil, too.
Most likely won't be any.
Yes there will be, but directed at the U.S. and President Bush instead of the monsters that murdered him.
Two problems:
1.) He was a supporter of the war and President Bush.
2.) He was a JOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
After we take care of the Muslims, we have to fix the meddling leftist press and their invidious agenda.
The scumbag kerrorists use only those things they can turn into political advantage. They are lying crap weasels whose evry word and motivation must be questioned.
We've faced this kind of evil before: the Japanese Imperialists in WWII, with their code of Busido, hundreds of American and British POWs beheaded with samauri swords, kamikazes.
The difference this time is that we don't have the fortitude to fight a dirty war.
Directed at Bush and at us, of course.
"The Iraqis are NOT terrorists. They may have us terrified, but that is not the same thing. They did NOT come to our country and kill us. WE went to THEIR country and killed THEM."
"Let me put it this way: they have the right to do any damn thing they please with any one of us they catch. WE ARE INVADERS. WE ARE OCCUPYING THEIR NATION. WE ARE THE BAD GUYS."
"They killed Berg without torturing him first? That was a demonstration of their humaneness. It could have been MUCH worse. It WILL get MUCH worse."
"You know what Iraqi history books will call your "terrorists"? Patriots. Freedom fighters. All the things we thought we were."
"Because I'm too busy being outraged over the thousands of dead Iraqi civilians."
Sad and pathetic, isn't it? Actual posts from the other side.
Well, from that angle, you are probably right.
Rage from Kennedy about the beheading of an American citizen that he didn't know or even knew that he existed?
Do you really expect rage from a man that "went for a swim" while his pregnant mistress drowned in a submerged car that he drove into the water?
The only rage I can associate Mr. Kennedy with is rage at running out of his favorite booze.
Yeah, right...unfortunately, no one (including our own mainstream media) gives a damn what the "American Street" thinks unless it's critical of the Bush Administration. This endorsement of the "Arabs good, Americans bad" mentality is pathetic but typical.
One question, though...Does anybody really believe, in this day and age, this country would "remember the Alamo" or "remember Pearl Harbor" as in past generations? Not likely...hell, most of the people in this country have already forgotten 9-11 unless, of course, there are political points to be made.
Somehow, it's becoming increasingly hard to be proud to be an American. Sad, isn't it?
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