redrock
redrock
This guy does rock!
Bump for a great article!
Selective Outrage on Iraq Is Sickening
"But a strange double standard seems at work. The pictures of abused Iraqis and the accused soldiers are plastered all over the media, yet the horrific pictures of Americans dying in the 9/11 attacks have been buried as too “inflammatory.” Gone are the pictures of those leaping from the World Trade Center to avoid death in the inferno. Also absent from the media are the pictures of celebration in the Middle East of our 9/11 tragedy. So to you American journalists, who lost one of your brethren, Daniel Pearl, to these vermin, where is your outrage at this?
About one year ago a CNN journalist admitted that while assigned to Baghdad before the war he covered up Saddam’s atrocities. The reason, he said, was that he did not want the regime to close CNN’s news bureau and wanted access to Saddam. Yet there was no outrage of this, nor was this journalist fired for “sitting” on this story. The stories of Saddam’s massive atrocities, and the murder and abuse of American POW’s in Iraqi custody, have received scant attention. We must remember and honor the conduct of the overwhelming majority of our troops, who have performed magnificently under the most trying conditions. They have exercised amazing restraint, even at the risk of their lives. They have avoided collateral damage as much as possible, while our enemies have used sanctuaries and civilians for cover.
Justice should – and will – be done. But we will not win the war, or successfully conduct this investigation, by beating ourselves publicly. Our expressed outrage only encourages our enemies to greater resistance, and more horrific atrocities. If casualties increase, it is not just the fault of those accused of the abuse, but also those who have chosen to sensationalize it." "
They should have used my idea instead (though my method would have drawn more rath from liberals and the press...not to mention the A.C.L.U.). I proposed that we play the audio Bible (our Bible) in Arabic from Genesis to Revelations over an intercom system 24 hours day and night, seven days a week with nice Aramaic background music to an Arabic narator like the equivalent of an Alexander Scorby... There would be breaks at times for Christian hyms sung in Arabic and teaching tapes by well-respected preachers who were converted former muslims who now preach and teach in Arabic that Islam is a lie and Y'eshua is the only way to eternal life.
With the Holy Spirit and the angels working in the background, I wounder what sort of effet it would have had? If nothing else, to Fedayeen and Al Qaeda...it would either be salvation or torture.
this ought to get nailed to the door at The Weekly Standard, which this week, is more aptly titled, "The Weakly Standard."
Excellent. BTW redrock, did you read the story about Gen. Latif (the Iraqi general put in charge of Fallujah) speaking at the town council? He told them the sooner they cooperated with the US the sooner the US would help them rebuild and leave. :o)
This guy gets it
And also thanking their lucky stars that they aren't in a prison run by Saddam.
Factiod: The average prisoner released from GITMO weighs 20 lbs more than when he entered the prison. His teeth have been fixed, he has been deloused and dewormed (perhaps for the first time in his miserable life). He has received medical care that he could only dream of in whatever backwater he came from. He has been inoculated against diseases that take out perhaps a third of the population in Afghanistan before they reach their 5th birthday.
And the liberals whine because they don't have access to lawyers.
PING:
"Journalists often consult the same person – who just happens to speak good English – over and over. Is it a coincidence that he speaks good English or that he happily offers his opinion? Some even rely on the contacts they had before the war, people who could have only been Ba’athists. Does it never occur to journalists that they are being used? It astounds me that our vaunted “investigative” news media have not caught on to this. Their interviews with the Iraqi “man on the street” are offered to us uncritically, as though they were interviewing someone on the streets of Des Moines, Iowa. Our intrepid reporters demonstrate all the shrewdness of a well-fed cow."