Posted on 09/26/2005 12:42:56 PM PDT by Glenn
I tell you, I love our US soldiers. I'm sorry about your loss. It hurts like you-know-what. And neither of us want those losses to be in vain.
I don't think you understand how much the prisoners are walking all over our soldiers. It's insane. And it hurts their image. But instead of trying to solve that problem, the leftists have us jumping over hoops about how we should hand Korans to prisoners at Gitmo, how we should not waterboard them [Kennedy of all people complained about waterboarding], etc. Not only did they hamstring interrogators, they also revealed a lot of our bluff-tactics we've been using on them.
The real creep isn't England, it's THE PUTZ WHO SNITCHED! MAY THAT PUTZ DIE TOMMORROW AND BURN IN HELL!
"But for the help she provided to the enemy"
What about the pencil-necked creep who snitched all this to begin with? I could care less what they do to the prisoners, honestly. Roast them in gasoline for all I care.
OK, calming down. Now for our philosophical difference of opinion:
"...the US military is great because it is good. If it ever ceases to be good, it will cease to be great."
What is good and what is evil? Check things by the fruit that they bear. When a soldier breaks regulations and saves lives, that bears good fruit. For example, the officer who fired a shot near the face of a prisoner to stop a bombing. He broke regulations-- stupid regs as far as I'm concerned. But he saved lives.
What about the soldiers who kept Venona humming along back in the 40s when FDR wanted to shut that program down? He was commander-in-chief. They defied his wicked orders, knowing what he thought of "Uncle Joe" [Stalin' and Alger Hiss. Commander-in-chief or not, respect must be EARNED, not expected. The law must earn respect. Rules must earn respect. And leaders must earn respect.
I have no respect for our leftist-run system of rules in the US government. I have no respect for America's college grads, with their chug-fests and orgies. I have no respect for the DC Beltway and it's Robes of Death, laced with 40 million innocent babies.
I have the highest respect for any US veteran who is mentally prepared to engage with enemy forces, any veteran who has taken shrapnel, and any family member grieving for a lost one who died on foreign soil. The rest of the country should BACK OFF and quit nitpicking them over interrogation tactics.
God help us if we remain a nation of rules and laws. We need to be a FREE nation of FREE people, with soldiers allowed to use as much personal judgement as we can possibly stand, a nation that doesn't get in such a hissy over the mistreatment of prisoners who are in spy status regardless [not wearing uniforms] and only have the right to be shot as spies.
Yeah, no joke! Then Cindy Sheehan and the moonbats started comparing the conditions at the New Orleans Superdome to Abu Ghraib!
At which juncture I pointed out that what they considered "torture" in Abu Ghraib is called a "lap dance" in the Big Easy...
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