Posted on 09/21/2004 6:48:08 PM PDT by TitansAFC
This is cold!
These "people" are clearly the enemy and should be treated as such.
It may be just as well it was not shown. It would likely have made no difference, plus those evil, despicable people would have gotten pleasure watching the suffering of this poor family.
How my heart goes out to them. This is unimaginably evil.
What's with the name change?
This guy has killed so many people, that the appropriate punishment for him is hard to dream up. Maybe he should be tied to a chair in a locked room, and the family of each of his victims should get to visit him one at a time.
Al-Jazeera: The voice of the enemy.
I have nothing but contempt for Al Jazeera, but I do not have much more for what has become the standard drill with these hostages; the sobbing, the "please give them what they want" pleas from the captive and their families, etc.
I asked my WWII vet father why none of these captives, so far, has had the courage of a Nathan Hale "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
His answer was simple and profound: "Hale was in it for the fight. These are in it for the money."
Why not send cruise missile to "visit" Al Jerkzeera?
Death to the barbarians.
Much worse than shameless; they are terrorist sympathisers; enablers.
Cannot do it now; he has to have a term in front of him.
Go put yourself in their place...then you will have the right to judge them. Until then, get off your high horse.
All in good time.
None of us know how we would react, but I would hope and pray that I would show more courage and conviction than all except the Italian who pulled off his hood and shouted "I'll show you how an Italian dies!" have displayed.
The weeping and wailing is just playing in to these savages hands. We need some heroic martyrs and soon.
Can we fight with the enemy's tactics and the enemy's cruelty and then halt after having won? Can we exterminate the enemy and his families and not become as cold and dead inside as he?
Can we avoid becoming the enemy?
We must prevail at both.
Al Jazeera needs to become Al-Kaboom!
Way overdue for a cruise missile. I am sick of them being the mouthpiece for murderers.
Since they are complicit in aiding the terrorists, they are a legitimate military target.
What are we waiting for?
But these men never intended to be martyrs...and I do believe that a lot of them are really there because they want to help. Not just for the money. Good men that believe in the goodness in others...now knowing that the last time they saw their families, was indeed, the last time. How does one prepare themselves for something like this? Waiting for those minutes, knowing what was coming. I cannot fathom the absolute and complete terror these men were forced to face.
AL Jazeera is nothing more than a ROP terrorist propaganda agency that should be destroyed. I thought the AL Jazeera thugs had been thrown out of Iraq?
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