Posted on 09/23/2004 5:18:03 AM PDT by OESY
...Zarqawi in Fallujah, as interviewed in the Arabic language London daily Al Hayat and translated by the indispensable Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org),... added that "there is no dispute regarding anyone who collaborates with the occupation -- he is a traitor and must be killed."
The interview deserves the attention of anyone who thinks the violence we're facing has something to do with an awakening of genuine Iraqi patriotism. On the one hand, we have Baathists making a crass attempt to recapture the privileges they enjoyed under the former regime. Working hand in glove are foreign terrorists who conceive of themselves as fighting not just to liberate Iraq from the Americans, but as part of a regional war aimed at "other places, such as Jerusalem" as well: "[Zarqawi] has a strategy and an aspiration to expand the fighting to the entire region."
The source also reveals Zarqawi's view that Iraq's majority Shiites practice an "infidel ideology." While he says Zarqawi, who is Sunni, would prefer having them "atone to Allah" rather than have to kill them, he has no qualms about doing so as long as they continue in heretical error and work for an "apostate regime."
...Zarqawi had fewer qualms about the secular Saddam, with whom he worked visibly enough to be cited in Colin Powell's February 2003 U.N. presentation. He had already been linked to the murder of an American diplomat in Amman and a ricin plot in London, and he has since been tied to an attempted poison gas attack on U.S. and other targets in the Jordanian capital. Of course, opponents of deposing Saddam keep telling us the old regime had no connections to terrorism. But we certainly feel safer knowing that one half of the Saddam-Zarqawi alliance now resides in an Iraqi jail.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
This is Viet Nam all over again.
If the American military suddenly quits Iraq, like they did Viet Nam, millions of Iraqis will be butchered. This time the killing fields will be in shifting sands rather than rice patties, but the outcome will be the same - another holocaust.
It had been predicted. It was why we were there. It arrived right on schedule. But people like Kerry continue to say that we did the right thing by giving up the fight. And he'd be happy to let millions of Shiites in Iraq die as well.
It is people like Kerry who are helping Zarqawi liberate Iraq from the Americans which means – he doesn’t want Democracy anywhere near Iraq – nor apparently does John Kerry.
Families or persons who take money from Zarqawi for the purpose of blowing themselves and innocents around them up, should be treated as though they are one person – i.e., all are guilty of murder. There is no “religion” in this insanity, only greed and the determination to thwart a democratic government and freedom by tyrants like Zarqawi. Punishment can and should be swift in that all family members of the bomber will be rounded up and executed in a public place for crimes against a free people ASAP.
A harsh proposal, even criminal? Perhaps but one the murderous Zarqawi and his followers will understand.
Same fight, different talking turban.
Well said!
Jihad strongholds should be Dredenized or Hiroshimized, so as to be instructive. Take away the jihad supporters will to make war.
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