Fox News: Bodies of 2 Missing GIs Found

Fox News | 20 Jun 06 | Brian Kilmeade

[xzins]

Moderator: Just Announced Fox News. They said it was coming from Reuters via the Iraqi Defense Ministry

[COBOL2Java]

I hope 10,000 American and Iraqi troops swoop into that town 20 miles from Baghdad where the bodies were found and eliminate every insurgent in sight.

This might be a chance for the IDF to show their stuff. I have a feeling that any insurgents captured by the IDF will have wished they were instead captured by the Americans.

[mware]

Surely they had a drone over the area. Maybe they got some sort of photos of who dumped their bodies.

[elfman2]

Respectfully, the good news is that they're not in the hands of terrorists and are no longer being tortured. Their quick execution indicates that our intelligence and search was effective and threatening, and that anything we did at Abu Ghraib our Gitmo was comparatively moderate. If these were my sons, news of their death would be a release. They died performing a great and honorable service.

[alpha-8-25-02]

PRAYERS FOR THE FAMILIES!

[ko_kyi]

Steelwolf correctly pointed out that a GPS chip in all US military would ensure that no prisoners would ever be taken.

Well, you can't make a signal only go to the good guys. I would hate to have the bad guys be able to locate our troops with a simple DF set. Also, it would have to have batteries - 1 more thing to carry. And if it had an off switch the captors would just turn it off.

[topher]

I agree it is war. But there is a possibility that these slime balls might slip away or perhaps be captured later.

If you send a forensic team, then if these people are captured by the Iraqi governmetnt (or detained as possible terrorists), they can be identified and the Iraqi Government may see fit to try them for their crimes.

It is war, yes, but this enemy does not wear the uniform that can be easily identified. They are terrorists.

Also, the FBI has a standing order to seize any terrorists anywhere in the world...

It is also my hope that taking such action would be a deterent from such cowardly activity as these terrorists performed by executing our soldiers.

In the Battle of the Bulge, German soldiers machine gunned newly captured US Troops.

Would we have been justified, if after the war, to bring such criminals to justice - when the United States occupied Germany?

[AmericanInTokyo]

LIBERALS:

You are served notice. You either stand with AMERICA or you stand with the beheaders.

[browardchad]

The silence on these comparisons is IMMORAL!

And when will some congressman leak the details of how PC rules of engagement led to an abduction at a checkpoint? That's one leak I'd really appreciate.

[TexKat]

Bodies of missing soldiers found in Iraq

June 20, 2006 06:30 AM CDT

Baghdad, Iraq - The bodies of two missing U.S. soldiers have been found, a senior Iraqi military official said Tuesday, but the U.S. military said it could not confirm the report.

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Mohammed said the bodies of Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Army Pfc. Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore., were found on a street near a power plant in the town of Youssifiyah, just south of Baghdad. U.S. Maj. Doug Powell said he could not confirm the report.

The soldiers came under attack Friday at a traffic checkpoint near Youssifiyah. A third soldier, Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass., was killed in the attack. All three were from the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

An umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a statement Monday that it had kidnapped the two U.S. soldiers, but it did not name them.

"The news is going to be heartbreaking for my family," Ken MacKenzie, Menchaca's uncle, told NBC's "Today" show.

He said the United States should have paid a ransom from money seized from Saddam Hussein.

"I think the U.S. was too slow to react to this. Because the U.S. did not have a plan in place, my nephew has paid with his life."

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=5052893&nav=9Tai

[moose2004]

You're right, let the Iraqi Army take them out. I've read that the US has been holding back the IDF while we try to fight a PC war. Screw the Euroweenies and the UN, who gives a sh*t what those a$$holes say, let the IDF go after this gang and finish them off. NO MERCY!

[topher]

... Their quick execution indicates that our intelligence and search was effective and threatening, and that anything we did at Abu Ghraib our Gitmo was comparatively moderate. ...

I have to agree - with what was in the AP article, it sounded like these slime balls probably just narrowed evaded our troops.

They may have realized they would not get out of the area alive if they still had their prisoners or that they themselves would probably be captured - in my opinion.

[DCPatriot]

Thank you for expressing the anger for all of us.

I have been editing and deleting my intended posts all morning because I cannot find the words to use without breaking Jim Rob's rules.

I have a lump in my throat the size of a grapefruit.

[ko_kyi]

I hate to say it, but I expected the US would see a serviceman execution video the moment we entered Iraq. AQ has been trying everything they could do to get their hands on a soldier. I am surprised it took this long for them to get prisoners.

God have mercy on the two men.

[xzins]

The Liberals hate our country. I don't know any other conclusion that's possible.

The treasonous are not really Americans.

Americans in Name Only.

AINO

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I just heard on Good Morning America that the two soldiers were tortured and beheaded



I am not at all surprised about this. It was what I feared would happen to them. Now I fear the damned video that will no doubt be on al-Jazeera soon. May God damn the souls of those who took these 2 young heroes and did this to them. I am to the point where I have no tears to shed if our guys give a little payback outside the rules of engagement.

[topher]

Not that this was UNEXPECTED (that they had been tortured), it is truly sad.

I hope the Lame Stream Media gets to look at pictures of our soldiers in this state so they can weigh their reporting at Gitmo...

[DCPatriot]

DoD still has not confirmed their deaths...

They are probably trying to sanitize the facts as to the condition of their bodies, etc..

[SE Mom]

God bless the uncle...he must believe that $money would have saved this soldier's life.

He is sadly deluded..

[submarinerswife]

Did anyone else see Manchaca's uncle on the Today show this morning?

He said that the US Gov't didn't act fast enough, should have released 2500 mujahadin prisoners and paid out the 100 billion that we took from Saddam's Bathe party to pay ransom. Lauer asked if negotiating with terrorists wouldn't encourage more of the same and the uncle replied that they are doing it anyhow and they need the money. WTF?? Essentially blaming the "US Gov't" instead of the terrorists.

This guy is nuts, but in the normal MSM fever to get a family member or neighbor of a family member on the air, they put this &^%$#(*@ on the air to speak for the family of this soldier. Disgusting.

[jpsb]

I am trying to think of an appropriate response to murdering torturing and beheading POWs. Can't think of one. The Japanese would behead POWs too. We dropped the bomb on them. The good people of Iraq, if there are any, better get into this fight fast otherwise a lot of blood is going to be spilled.