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...
You are a fawning terrorist apologist who is taken seriously by nobody outside of the echo-chamber of your own far-left ideology. Quit your infantile whining and get over your sorry self.
It was many years ago, but it was indeed an honor.
This b-tch is an unabashed liar and a fraud. I read through those posts, mine was one of them, and few if any could be interpreted as saying "way to go guys!" We are merely reserving judgment until all the facts are known. And as I pointed out in my comment on that thread, these troops will be held accountable, appropriately, if they are found guilty unlike happens among the Muslim terrorists who regularly murder civilians for sport! But then being a well-known Tokyo Rose type who loves all things Arab and works out of the UAE I guess she would have no appreciation for democratic principles like innocent until proven guilty. But if they are guilty, the terrorists themselves deserve a big share of the blame for creating an environment of chaos and murder in Iraq. Yet will Ms. Heard EVER write a column about the many murders a day of Iraqi innocents that her heroes the terrorists carry out as their approve tactics??
Maybe if they would be REAL men who would come out into the open and fight like real men instead of the abject cowards they are using sissified stand off tactics like road side bombs, they wouldn't be creating an atmosphere of suspicion and frustration such that incident like this alleged act would occur. I'm amazed our men have been as disciplined and respectful of civilians as they have in this environment. As I said on my original posting, "Go screw yourself Ms. Heard!"
Ms. Heard - go get yourself laid. It would do you some good. (Apologies to George Kennedy)
Got it : )
This reminds me of all the trash the media put out about Lt Pantano. They had him convicted and all but executed before charges were even leveled by his coward of a CO.
But guess what? He wasn't convicted of anything, because the real evidence showed nothing of what was alleged. He was as innocent as the day is long.
/rant on! So Madame Heard, you can kiss my rosy red rear end! You are so convinced that the Marines are guilty without evidence being presented. What that tells me is you are convinced all of our brave service members are murderers, rapists, and the dregs of society. Stop transferring what you see in the mirror every morning onto our troops. They are light years better than you and your sniveling cowards in the media. /rant off
We have heard false allegations about our troops before. When they become more than allegations by those who hate us and have some facts behind them I'll be first in line to shout foul.
In the meantime, based on experience....shove your story where the sun is not likely to be shining.
Thanks Jean S...for the link.
Yeah, Coop, I would say you posted on that thread...LOL
I think she is mad because she was ripped apart!!!
Well, Ms Heard--If you can't stand the heat.....(you know the rest)
It's too bad that the people who pay the price for such naivette are other people like the CBS crew recently.
"...They are there to kill people and break things."
the most eloquent response I have seen to any of this.
Nobody likes it, but war is war.
"The hateful liberals and their media want a war were no one dies and no mistakes occur."
Delusional liberals desire warfare to be a Fairy Ballet spiced with Stage Blood. War is Hell and people die and are maimed. Leftist operatives know a better way - their weapon of choice is radical activism and propaganda behind the scenes.
American soldiers are all living in fear in Iraq because they never know who is going to kill them and when. He saw children kill American soldiers, he saw women (young and old) kill American soldiers, he said that death was all around them and that they (soldiers) were just waiting for "their bullet".
War is a bitch, people die, and our soldiers are risking their lives so you can sit in a comfy office and spew your mindless, sanctimonious, self-rightous drivel.
STFU
You and your disgraceful traitorous friends are not worthy of the freedom
which was fought by others ... for you.
Unlike the flag which adorns your sick column this Memorial Day,
America's colors do not run.
[If I told you what I really thought about you, I'd be banned.]
and don't call me Shirley
..but I thought it was patriotic to ask questions. I geuss its only patriotic to ask questions when liberals ask questions.
I missed that. Did they run over a jihadist's present?
I have read her columns for years. Linda Heard is a doctrinaire Marxist. Just ignore her. She is not worth the bother.
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