Posted on 06/06/2005 1:45:47 PM PDT by CyberAnt
First, Newsweek pulled a Dan Rather on us, running a fabricated story just because they wanted it to be true. They told the world that an American guard at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center had ripped pages from a prisoner's Koran and flushed it down a toilet. As a result, innocent people died when practitioners of Islam rioted in protest in Afghanistan.
Oops, said Newsweek, it seems we can't back up our story. Oh well, it's probably true; we just can't prove it. (Isn't it convenient for Newsweek that the media now have "Deep Throat" to talk about so they can revel in their glory days and divert our attention from their criminal negligence.)
The lie heard round the world about the flushed Koran has caused convulsions in the Bush Administration and forced the Pentagon to launch an investigation of unfounded allegations contained in an unsubstantiated story. The results of said investigation are now in, and it seems there are at least five incidents of "mishandling" of the Koran at Gitmo.
Well, guess what? I don't care!
Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we?
Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?
Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?
Well, I don't. I don't care at all.
I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.
I'll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling, slashed throat.
I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.
I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.
I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.
I'll care when Clinton-appointed judges stop ordering my government to release photos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which are sure to set off the Islamic extremists just as Newsweek's lies did a few weeks ago.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.
When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college hazing incident, rest assured ... I don't care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank ... I don't care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts ... I don't care.
And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and -- you guessed it -- I don't care!
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Post #91 is very good also!
I need a better image editor -- I used MS paint and MS Photoeditor to make that -- next go-round it'll be better I hope.
I'm learning to use Cool Page and Dreamweaver - not easy.
any of 'em freeware?
Char (:
I already apologized for the missive. But don't lean on me too hard about the military being caught again with their pants down.
Believe it or not, most of us nonmilitary types figured that the Pentagon would have had some means of insuring against an attack. I guess its naive, but with all the attacks we have had prior to 9/11, you would have figured that each guard shack would have had a stinger or something.
Sorry spanalot. I didn't read the thread all the way through. I didn't realize someone had already mentioned that to you.
No one expected to be attacked in such a manner. Including the Pentagon. I'm quite certain that it can't happen again.
At least I hope that's true.
thanks for posting, a little light hearted reading for y'all.
i have found their societies to be quite syphilised..
You're welcome .. thanks for pinging people who can also enjoy it.
Cool Page is free for a month. Pretty reasonable after that - I think it's $30-40 bucks. Dreamweaver is a bit more sophisticated .. ranges from $300-400.
BTTT
I'll tell you what I do care about. I care about the liberal handwringing bleeding heart imbeciles who feel that we have to kiss the asses of these Islam aholes by even having to wear gloves to handle the POS koran ... while applauding some other ahole for placing a cross in pee. That makes me care enough to want to spit.
My only beef is they didn't flush or kick more and harder.
Thanks for pointing that out! I didn't even realize it.
I agree with everything but this. Our military must be held to the highest standard. Either torture them or don't, but don't pretend it's sh!nola when it's sh!t.
Shalom.
While I don't necessarily agree with that treatment either .. the intimidation factor is what counts. Believe me .. it may have seemed a little over the top .. but when you have people whose only goal in life was to kill you .. being especially civil to them is not the key to getting them to talk.
At least we didn't tape their arms to a board and then cut their arm off - spurting blood everywhere.
I'm not 100% sure I'm against what was done. But I am sure that I do care. We need to be careful not to become complaisant about how the army treats prisoners - even if they are not subject to the Geneva Convention.
Shalom.
Oh yes, I agree. We do need to care how our military treats prisoners. But .. when prisoners are gaining weight, have good fresh food, clean clothes, clean bedding, fresh air, there is no way this is a general attitude of torture - it's absurd.
But .. as I screamed at FOX the other day. You can't explain to people what torture ISN'T if they don't know what torture IS.
By the American stations refusing to show the true torture videos from Saddam, the ACLU can use the prison photos as "torture" - because a lot of the public has no idea those pictures are NOT TORTURE.
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