Posted on 06/29/2004 5:19:14 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
We're all now suppossed to be scared. Those Al Quaida guys must be tough. They're so tough they just executed a U.S. POW. This impresses me to no end.
The execution of Keith M. Maupin has to constitute about the most stupid thing Al Quaida could have done. The one moral advantage these thugs still had was that in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib Prison, they could claim the Americans were barbarians for how they treated prisoners.
Well, that argument is gone. There could be no more cowardly or pathetic an act than executing a person who has surrendered himself and who stopped fighting back three months ago. The thugs can't beat our military, but when they get a POW, they act like they just took down Mike Tyson in his prime.
People throughout the Islamnic world who are sick of these people had to have cringed. Cutting someone's head off while yelling "Allah Akbar!!" at the top of one's lungs does not constitute smooth salesmanship. People all over the world look at these people and no doubt feel the contempt.
The US has a saying that covers situations like this. "Forget Hell!"
Why do you and others insist on using verbs like "execute?" This trooper was murdered by murderers. To execute suggests an appropriate resonse to a crime. This trooper was not "executed," he was murdered, killed in cold blood by pig boinking, liquor drinking criminals who, if Mohammed wasn't a false prophet, would be struck dead.
No panties on a head ...This trooper was murdered by murderers.
No snarling dogs, cowering a coward ... This trooper was murdered by murderers.
No ding-bat broad with a leash in hand ... This trooper was murdered by murderers.
No carnival atmosphere human pyramids ... This trooper was murdered by murderers.
Do you freakin' get it, media ...
This trooper was murdered by murderers.
BTW The execution is a vioation of the Geneva convention and as such frees the US from any constraints associated with that convention, although I doubt Al Quaida ever was a signatory.
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