A Message for Fallujah

WSJ.comOpinion Journal ^ | April 1, 2004 | Peggy Noonan

[ride the whirlwind]

The world is used to bad news and always has been, but now and then there occurs something so brutal, so outside the normal limits of what used to be called man's inhumanity to man, that you have to look away. Then you force yourself to look and see and only one thought is possible: This must stop now. You wonder, how can we do it? And your mind says, immediately: Whatever it takes.

[neverdem]

Tune, you read my mind about the MOAB, but I think we should do it a little differently, because it was a minority in this country that sustained the American Revolution.

I propose that we try to get them to turn over to us the terrorists who did the attack and those who desecrated their bodies. If we have no luck, then we give them a warning that there will be a MOAB demonstration just outside of town, with the forewarning to tape their windows and not to be under any weakly built structures.

If they still don't produce the culprits, then tell them to evacuate because Fallujah will be no more.

RTW, you just beat me to posting this article by seconds before I did my final search, but why did you post it under announcements and not editorial?

[broadsword]

But the Democraps of WWII were not a scummy lowlife enemy cheerleading force like they are today. It is a different situation.

[Tunehead54]

And so this time the response must be the opposite of the response in Mogadishu.

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Yep. And for the opposite of "Cut and run" maybe "Slash and burn" is a good plan. Please - US Military - do not do nothing. A response is required. :-(

[ride the whirlwind]

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[neverdem]

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I could have sworn I saw this posted under announcements when it was just posted. Maybe it's time to go to bed. Good night.

[ride the whirlwind]

Okay, g'night.

[Travis McGee]

We know what the men and boys who did the atrocity of Fallujah look like; they posed for the cameras. We know exactly what they did--again, the cameras. We know they massed on a bridge and raised their guns triumphantly. It's all there on film. It would be good not only for elemental justice but for Iraq and its future if a large force of coalition troops led by U.S. Marines would go into Fallujah, find the young men, arrest them or kill them, and, to make sure the point isn't lost on them, blow up the bridge.

Amen. Kill the sadistic bastards in the pictures, and blow up their bridge, at least.

The fact that we haven't taken an immediate action makes me hopeful that we're winding up the forces for some major payback.

[fly_so_free]

I agree that something has to be done here.

The pictures show evil, pure evil. I keep thinking about Mad Not-bright and her attacks and insinuations that the WOT and Iraq are not between good and evil. Lets hear Mad A. tell us that incinerating people, beating, mutilating their corpses and hanging them from a bridge is merely a cultural difference. Better yet let Albright tell us we need to have a dialog with theses sub-humans so they won't attack us. Tell us what to say Madeline.

Let this be a message to all the cowardly liberals here and around the world. You can't reason with evil. Terrorists are evil. Those in Fallujah terrorized the people of Iraq. They are no different from terrorists hiding anywhere in the world. They are vicious and cruel. They place no value on human life.Those who think this type can be appeased, would do well to note that the people killed were to help in delivering food to the region.

Today Americans were murdered and brutalized in Fallujah. Before that Spanish citizens were coldly murdered. No doubt more innocent people will die at the hands of these rabid dogs in the future.

I can only pray that the civilized people of the world will unite and hunt down terrorists in their midsts before they witness their citizens lifeless, mutilated corpses dangling from a bridge while a pack of Satanic animals celebrates.

There is no difference between the ghouls celebrating in Fallujah and the people who blew up the trains in Spain, or had plans to blow up trains in London, or blew up the night club that killed the Australians, or who flew the planes into our World Trade Centers and Pentagon. They must be destroyed, there is no negotiating with them, their single life goal is to murder the innocent.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Amen.
I pray you are right travis

[ATCNavyRetiree]

It would be good not only for elemental justice but for Iraq and its future if a large force of coalition troops led by U.S. Marines would go into Fallujah, find the young men, arrest them or kill them, and, to make sure the point isn't lost on them, blow up the bridge.

Sounds reasonable to me!

[ATCNavyRetiree]

The fact that we haven't taken an immediate action makes me hopeful that we're winding up the forces for some major payback.

I'm sure the Leatherneck brass are planning right now...lots of maps spread out on a big table...those square jaws are clenched....

[thepackn83]

If Bush doesn't show the balls to exact some revenge against these vermin, then maybe we Americans should start treating Muslims in our country the same way they treat us in their's. Don't know about you all, but I'm about one more 9-11-01/Falluja away from getting my own personal payback. Law and order is okay, as long as justice is served, but so far, I have been very disappointed! HOLY WAR!!!!!!!!!!

[paix]

I think the Iraqi's are like Israel. They will have to learn to fight and sacrifice for it. (If they want it). Freedom comes at a cost.

Also, this is my soapbox... they don't get us and we don't get them.

When "they" say the West is decadent... I agree. It is, and grows more so daily.

The only thing I respect about these people is their undying dedication to their belief.

(Here in this counrty we are penalized for holding a heartfelt belief).

I forsee a black maria hauling me off one day... sad times indeed!

[expatguy]

Wow.

Are you suggesting that we WIN this war instead of FIGHT it??

[Robert_Paulson2]

uhh.... yeah.
signed,
infidel robert.

[wita]

I am afraid that is the only lesson that will pay dividends. That town/city, must not continue to exist, including all of its inhabitants, young old, innocent, if there be any, and guilty alike, no warning, just like Sodom and Gomorrah of old, they have risen to their own level of destruction, and their hearts are stone. They are incapable of turning around, but that is a presidential decision, and it needs to be taken quickly and decisively.

[archy]

We know what the men and boys who did the atrocity of Fallujah look like; they posed for the cameras.

No problem; just be sure we get the right ones, and if possible, find out who directed and equipped them before eliminating them.

[archy]

The fact that we haven't taken an immediate action makes me hopeful that we're winding up the forces for some major payback.

Don't be surprised if some of those in the pics are somehow mysteriously attacked by bears.

[expatguy]

I do truly hope our military understands that there MUST be a serious response to this atrocity. :-(

Im thinking that the military's hands are tied. Once again we are fighting the good fight. The "politically correct" humane war where we bomb them with MRIS and reimburse them when accidently kill a camel.

I read somewhere that our military is paying compensation to Iraqis for our troops commiting "unlawful deaths".

Sadly, it would seem that we still have not learned our lesson.

If we had this attitude during World War 2, we would have never won the war. James Doolittle would have bankrupt us after we paid all the claims to the Japanese.

[RichInOC]

Bears? Why not wild boars?