Posted on 01/27/2006 10:58:26 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Well said.
It's supposedly not a matter of "questioning." Taking the wife of a suspected terrorist "as leverage" is an act of hostage-taking, and a form of terrorism.
It is certainly appropriate to question the veracity of this report. But I hope you'll agree that the idea of Americans taking hostages is not a good one.
Oh yeah -- "Uday seized more than we did" is a GREAT defense.... Sheesh. Either we're the good guys, or we're not, and it's our actions that make the difference.
Geez this is from the AP.....and I'm sure every fact is absolutely positively accurate and true ....oh, no there's nothing inaccurate here.......Do they identify the reporter? Is his Name Jason Blair?
And to think, that poor woman hadn't had the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to an abortion ...
And how, exactly, does this make us the BAD guys????
Don't get me wrong, we should not give enemy combatants quarter, we should engage and destroy them whenever and whereever we find them, but resorting to these types of measures will come to bite us in the nether regions sooner or later.
As long as they didn't eavesdrop, torture, detain, arrest, interrogate them I see no problem with it. sarc
Logic is that if americans were so pissed at the dems for making this woman cry -- these same americans should be pissed to no end about bush arresting and incarcerating these poor innocent as the wind driven snow women who just happen to be the wives of terrorists and whos children they sent strapped with bombs to blow up us soldiers
The press and the dems do not care at all for any of these people. their cold heartless use of this to try to smear bush stands out naked in all its shame.
A must read. Love, Me
Love him or loathe him, he nailed this one right on the head..........
Rush Limbaugh says:
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the
entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable..
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own U.S. Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system.
If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm's way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
"When do we finally do something about this?"
War ain't pretty.
Hostage-taking does seem to be a favorite tactic of bad guys....
I don't for a minute think that we're the bad guys in Iraq ... but I also don't think we ought to be taking hostages. Any Americans who do so, should be punished.
Always assuming, of course, that this is a credible and accurate report in the first place.
well, if true, then that would probably be the only thing that could convince me she wasn't a willing participant in her kidnapping.
Not believable.
Hillary hasn't had her biscuit buttered, (by a guy,) since Vince was offed.
Another piece of anti-american fodder for the weekend MSM discussions will condemn the administration and our military with little rebuttal from the WH, Rush, and others. All in coordination with DNC to exaggerate and mis-label catch-phrases (e.g. 'domestic-spying') that become the DNC talking points.
Five out of Fourteen THOUSAND detainees are an increasing trend? These people need a life. I got a better idea, Just bomb their house with a one ton bomb at three AM. This is after all a friggin war...
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What does Iraq have to do with "Americans' Civil Liberties"??
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