Posted on 05/29/2006 4:46:05 PM PDT by Coop
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In the meantime, my column had been posted on a well-known right-wing American website, where it attracted 119 comments. Oddly, none of them displayed any hint of disquiet over the behaviour of the Marines under investigation. Rather, their outrage was reserved for John Murtha and yours truly.
One poster's reaction was to "nuke the Middle East" adding "thank you very much Dishonourable Rep. Jack Murtha". He was later to write "if you can't stand behind our troops, stand in front of them".
A few of his co-posters rushed to the website of Murtha's Republican challenger Diana Irey to donate campaign funds.
The fact that this murdering troop has the support of even those 119 posters is worrisome. Surely, nobody should defend the indefensible based on some false notion of patriotism.
Military personnel should act as ambassadors for their country and behave according to international rules of law and the Geneva Conventions that were drawn up as a result of atrocities committed during the Second World War. There should be a difference between real soldiers and ruthless thugs with public opinion the final arbiter.
If the public, as represented by the 119 posters on the Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, then not only is its members giving their country's soldiers a license to kill arbitrarily, they are altering the fundamental psyche of their nation.
To quote a well-known rationalist intellectual Felix Adler "Love of country is like love of women - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
The "Freepers" - as members of the Free Republic website have come to be known - may also like to contemplate the words of theologian Howard Thurman who said "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
In short, people who glorify soldiers who purposefully assassinate women and small children are as misguided as those who glorify the blowing up of crowded buses, trains and marketplaces.
Does the donning of a uniform render its wearer impervious to justice? The Nuremberg trials indicate not...
Excellent!!!
I guess poor little ms. heard doesn't believe in free speech, just liberal free speech.
How odd--mine was #119 on this thread. Uh oh, here come the helicopters again...
Funny how zero level of proof was required by the liberals when Klinton was bombing the Balkans for 73 days and his domestic ATF mod squad was kicking in doors without warrants, searching houses without warrants, and burning down houses with residents still inside.
WHat exactly does that mean? :)
If the public, as represented by the 119 posters on the Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, then not only is its members giving their country's soldiers a license to kill arbitrarily, they are altering the fundamental psyche of their nation.
Fear the power of the pajamahadine!
These people are pathetic, Ms. Heard isn't going to like
the altering of the fundamental psyche of the nation after
the next terror strike when one of our cities lies in ruins.
Did anyone mention that being the product of the radical left makes it just about certain that if they ever "win", she will be one of the first to get the "ax" as it were.
Pitiful small minded 5th column wannabees.
Go read the constitution, biach.
'splains a lot to me.
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Me, too. Thanks for finding her "specialty." An ambition to defeat the US and to erase Israel.
We're all red, white and blue in this fight. You may have missed it, Race, when I said I consider both terms (soldier and Marine) to be compliments. God bless America!
Fixed, Your Immenseness! :-)
So now two of us can say it. We do not believe it happened as reported. You cannot interpret this as condoning in any fashion. There is more than enough evidence that terrorists commit atrocities themselves to lay at the feet of our military, and this needs much further investigation. If the military authorities, after a thorough investigation, determine such crimes had in fact taken place, and convenes courts-martial, and convictions are made, then yes, we will condemn such crimes.
FReepers do not condone, nor do Marines, the deliberate gunning down of three-year-old little girls. That is why, more than anything else (where only accusations fly, and no evidence has been given), I don't believe Marines did it. Marines, almost to a man, have been angels to the little Iraqi children. Everyone knows this to the point of it becoming a stereotype of GI behavior in Iraq.
Understood. Skip the ping list and go directly to Ms. Irey's website, make a donation, sign up for her E-mails, and you'll feel much better. :-)
You're right, just another anti-Semitic Brit journalist who has added America to her hate list.
We Freepers have given our soldiers license to kill arbitrarily? What B.S.
Nuke 'em all and let Allah sort them out!
Regards,
VR
Oh, that piece is GOOD!
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Need I explain.......................really? :)
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