Christian Iraqis cheer US Marines entering Baghdad's al-Karrada neighborhood as US tanks rolled into the heart of the Iraqi capital(AFP/Patrick Baz)
Posted on 04/09/2003 6:31:03 PM PDT by The Lake City Gar
I've been going through posts all day today and have been absolutely overjoyed. It seems as if we're finially making in-roads on preventing another 9-11 or worse. I wish I could bookmark this entire day...This place has it ALL covered, it should be used as a History lesson in years to come...The American Internet at it's FINEST!
But I just thought of something...
Where is the "Nuke Mecca" crowd? The "The only good muslim is a dead muslim" crowd? The "Islam is a death cult" crowd? The "Intern all Arabs" crowd? The "Islam is a religion of peace" crowd?
I've had a few run-ins with these people over the past few months. I've tried to make the obvious case that not ALL 1.6 billion muslims in the world are blood thirsty animals. And I've been called everything from a muslim to a communist to a democrat to a traitor. I've taken a beating for standing up against what I saw as bigotry...And many others have gone through the same.
But today we saw muslims handing flowers to our troops, kissing pictures of President Bush and waiving American Flags.
Is this just an act? Are they trying to lull us into a false sense of security while they are plotting to kill every last one of us in the name of their "Moon God"? Or are many of them simply held against their will by brutal dictators and/or religious fanatics who have warped their muslim ideals and ways?
I choose to believe it's the latter. And I hope the above mentioned crowds are gone for good.
Same place they always are.
Hiding behind a keyboard and an anonymous screen name, making blood curdling threats against people they've never met or understood, while real heroes are fighting and dying for the freedoms of those very same people.
Agreed!!
i am certain that you have seen the beautiful golden dome of the Mosque of Omar (or the Dome of the Rock) in Jerusalem. i am sure that you have seen the beautiful green Arab Caligraphy. That Caligraphy translates as "Death to the Infidels", gives me a nice "warm and fuzzy feeling", how about you?
i have no desire at all to nuke either Mecca or Medina, because It would be the waste of two perfectly good nukes from a tactical standpoint. Instead it would be better if the next time (God forbid!) there is a terrorist incident, and we can prove a link to a nation, we drop it on their capitol at about 4,000' AGL, and assure the rest of the world that we were not kidding when we said "those who harbour and support terror".
Yes, nukes are a very bad thing, and yet, it may be the most humane option available to us. What are the other options? 1) Commit attrocities that would have made the Waffen SS balk; 2) Hunt down and exterminate every Wahhabist Islamic (the majourity!) on the planet.
i am sorry, genocide does not appeal to me. We'd have to apologise to the NAZI's, and i couldn't coutenance that. The nice thing about using a nuke is that it encourages "common sense" to break out among people who otherwise wouldn't bother.
Valiant thing to say my friend.
Right on.
My compliments (on your appropriate selection of screen name.)
How many people voted for and supported Hitler?
Seriously, I don't have a problem with Muslims as long as they aren't flying airliners into buildings, strapping on explosives and blowing up innocent civilians or generally doing the things that give the %99 of the good Muslims a bad name.
I do have a problem with the silence after 9/11 from their leadership but I can also see how their culture is different, although they don't have a problem when it comes to denouncing America or our allies.
They leave me in peace and I'll be content to leave them in peace. But to be perfectly honest, I have a feeling that in the end, it will be either us or them with them being the ones who start it or already have.
And they are alive to love America in spite of Christians such as the "Nuke them" crowd, not because of them.
Who could not love them?
Alas, bin Laden was a beautiful child just like them once, before the imams poisoned his mind....
Having a hell of a Daschle day.
That's a long time between computer crashes.
Just because these people are overjoyed at being freed from a brutal dictator, doesn't necessarily mean that they don't still adhere to the teachings of the Quran.
These same people may one day be slitting your throat.
On a more happy note, I was extremely moved watching today's events...they are all human beings, and they appeared to appreciate the United States...for now.
Isn't that about the same as saying: "Your same people may one day be slitting my throat"?
Christian Iraqis cheer US Marines entering Baghdad's al-Karrada neighborhood as US tanks rolled into the heart of the Iraqi capital(AFP/Patrick Baz)
Iraqis cheer the arrival of U.S. Army forces to their neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003.
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