Posted on 06/21/2006 1:28:32 PM PDT by Baconian
What is it with the mainstream media? When some low-life terrorist whose handlers taught him to lie as needed claims he was tortured by US troops at Gitmo, the headlines read, "Detainees Tortured by US Troops."
But when two young American soldiers are abducted, tortured, and then brutally murdered by beheading, the New York Times headline reads, "US Says 2 Bodies Retrieved in Iraq Were Brutalized." Note the difference -- it is more than just a distinction.
If a scumbag terrorist claims he was tortured, the headline is unqualified; 'Detainees Tortured' -- period. If a murdering swine captured while trying to kill Americans claims a government he despises above all else claims he was mistreated, the media reports it as fact.
Like when the murdering swine who claimed that their guards flushed a Koran down the toilet -- it was reported as fact first, then investigated later.
When fanatical terrorists, hoping to call attention to themselves by going on a hunger strike, are force-fed by US troops (to keep them alive) -- well, THAT, according to the mainstream press, is 'torture'.
But when the bodies of kidnapped American soldiers are found tortured and beheaded, it reported as A US 'allegation' -- not a fact -- and to New York Times, 'torture' is what Americans do to terrorists. When terrorists torture and behead helpless American captives, the best the Times can do to describe it is to say they were 'brutalized.'
The South African Independent Online ran as its headline, "Kidnapped American Soldiers MAY Have Been Tortured."
Ok, let's run with that. At Gitmo, it is alleged that detainees were sometimes kept in really hot or really cold rooms for hours at a time. The detainees (terrorists all) sometimes didn't get their meals on time. They would have loud music played in their cells for extended periods.
According to the liberal media and Leftist Democrats like John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and, in particular, Dick Durbin, such tactics are 'barbaric', 'worthy of the Nazis or the Khymer Rouge' and, without question, 'torture' as the Left understands the term.
But when two young American soldiers (they were 23 and 25 years old) were captured, they weren't afforded a clean cell, three meals a day, time for religious observation and instruction, hot showers, medical care and visits from the Red Cross while being 'tortured' by having the a/c turned down too low.
These young American heroes were 'tortured' in the sense of what Americans understand as 'torture'. You know, beaten and stabbed, eyes gouged out, fingers broken, and finally, beheaded. Not a nice, clean, beheading by a large Nubian eunuch with a keen eye and a sharp blade.
Our forces were beheaded the way Nick Berg was beheaded; screaming in terror and pain as a depraved degenerate slowly cut through their flesh to the neck bone, until the terrorist, (who practice this on animals) find the place between the neck bones where he can expertly sever the spinal cord and separate the victim's head from his body.
The young soldier's bodies, after having been tortured and then beheaded, were not merely dumped in the street. First they were booby-trapped in the hopes that other US soldiers, in their grief, might rush to the bodies where this act of compassion would be used like a weapon to kill them, too.
Too graphic? Make you want to run screaming from the room?
If Pfcs Kristian Menchaca (who married his 18 year-old bride a month before leaving for Iraq) and Thomas Tucker could endure it on our behalf, we owe it to them to at least endure the description of what they suffered to preserve our freedom.
And we owe them, and the rest of our forces, any of whom risk a similar fate, enough respect for how they died to tell it like it is.
None of them can running screaming from the room. That would be called 'cowardice'. When we can't even endure the description of what our forces endured ON OUR BEHALF, then what does that make US?
Assessment:
The Washington Post decided that it would cover how the US military was responsible for the kidnapping, torture and murder of two helpless captive GIs, giving the murdering scumbags who committed it a pass.
Under an ominous headline alleging "Question Arise After US Finds Two Bodies", the Post reports that; "top U.S. commander ordered an investigation into why the men were isolated from a larger force in such a dangerous part of Iraq." To the Post, the blame belongs to the US military.
The Post reported the killings in a concise, matter-of-fact way, as if it were perfectly acceptable for al-Qaeda to torture and behead captive prisoners, because that's what they do, going so far as to explain their justification as 'revenge' for the killing of abu Musab al Zarqawi.
The San Francisco Chronicle opined in its headline that the; "Killings of Two Missing GIs Possibly a Show of Force by Insurgents." According to the Chronicle, the GI's murders were evidence that killing al-Zarqawi was, as they claimed at the time, 'meaningless.' The insurgents are still a force to be reckoned with, says the Chronicle.
"A show of FORCE?" By brutally murdering two bound and helpless prisoners?
In the meanwhile, President Bush is in Austria attempting to 'improve' relations with the European Community after a Council of Europe report concluded the United States was mistreating terrorist detainees by allowing them to be interrogated outside the United States under a policy called 'rendition'.
Manfred Nowak, the United Nations special investigator for torture, told Agence France-Presse that the U.S.-EU summit "would be an excellent opportunity to demand, and to facilitate, an immediate closing" of the prison. Nowak participated in a U.N. investigation that produced a February report alleging treatment that "amounts to torture" at Guantanamo Bay.
It is worth noting [again] that NONE of the authors of the report even visited Guantanamo Bay. The report and its conclusions are based entirely on the testimony of the detainees who, given the chance, would have cheerfully participated in the torture and beheading of PFCs Tucker and Menchaca.
Noted the Baltimore Sun apologetically; "Human rights "is an issue that still causes considerable anguish in Europe. They almost go out of their way to put the issue on the agenda, because they need to demonstrate to their publics that they're putting pressure on Bush."
Evidently, American soldiers aren't 'human'.
Jack Kinsella is an author and managing editor of Hal Lindsey Ministries, as well as the principle writer at www.Omegaletter.com. His book, "Bodyguard of Lies," exposes the forces in western culture that maintain falsehoods, and promote them as truths.
Amen... and may they rest in peace.
I'd like to make a few copies of this article and stuff it down the throats of the writers and editors at the Times and Post who are responsible for this kind of despicable bias.
Would that be torture?
I remember seeing a photo of a smiling Japanese Officer raising his sword to behead a kneeling, blindfolded Australian POW. The photo was carried hand to hand until it reached Allied hands. The reaction was not, "are we treating the Japs with sensitivity?"
Respectfully disagree. The press didn't have to give a detailed account, it's the headlines that caught attention. For the terrorists, any unsubstantiated allegation is treated as fact... "they were tortured", "Koran was flushed", et al. For American forces it's weasel words... "so says the military", "According to the Pentagon".
For our side, it isn't fact, it's just what we "said" happened. For their side, what the insurgents allege is fact until it has been disproved.
It matters.
This article needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Repeatedly. The author sums things up neatly and succinctly. We should raise enough money to have this published as a full page ad in every major newspaper in the country. Every day for a week.
I force myself to read and listen to what the press says to see how much pain I can stand before I beg God to take either them or me. It is sometimes so excrutiating as to cause me to catch my breath as with the extraordinarily club-footed comments of those who would give the savagery of these Islamic monsters the benefit of the doubt on one hand and seek to hang our dear Marines without benefit of an inquiry into what may have transpired on the other. I can only hope that God has more patience than he has granted me as mine is wearing very, very thin.
But when the bodies of kidnapped American soldiers are found tortured and beheaded, it reported as A US 'allegation' -- not a fact -- and to New York Times, 'torture' is what Americans do to terrorists. When terrorists torture and behead helpless American captives, the best the Times can do to describe it is to say they were 'brutalized.'
But when the bodies of kidnapped American soldiers are found tortured and beheaded, it reported as A US 'allegation' -- not a fact -- and to scumbag New York Times, 'torture' is what Americans do to terrorists. When terrorists torture and behead helpless American captives, the best the scumbag Times can do to describe it is to say they were 'brutalized.'
Fixed it.
Stay in Mexico, Mark. You do have a problem.
You're a troll.
& save a helping or two for reuters
who called these creatures rebels...
Back to DU, you stinking traitor
These are not regular combatants of a government, not soldiers as recognized by the Geneva Conventions. They are rogue outlaw barbarians who play by no rules of warfare; hell, by no rules of civilization. They have no reason to expect anything but a bullet.
The commander of forces in Iraq should immediately call for summary executions of any and all insurgents caught shooting at our troops or planting explosive devices. Not tortured, just stood in front of a firing squad and shot. Right now.
There is precident for this. I've read that Gen. Eisenhower gave such orders to stop terrorists in Germany in the months following the occupation. Such actions were to be entered in their reports, but no public announcement made about them. There was a pressing need to get control of the situation and, as with al-Qaida, these people were not lawful combatants, just terrorists.
Desperate measures are needed here. Get the reporters and cameramen out of there and issue press releases as needed. The rest of the world has no need to know any more than that. Get this crap over with and get home. We have a border that needs protecting.
Great anecdote. I think the enemy abroad and domestic is killing our sensitivity.
I remember how shocked I was when news of beheadings was still new. I now find a deep anger has replaced that sense of shock.
IMHO the day is coming soon when islam will reap (and regret) what it has sown.
I'm glad I'm not alone with a thin veneer of patience remaining.
No you're not the only ones running out of patience. Almost on a daily basis it seems, I yell at the TV or the monitor and the gist of it is "I am tired of this s..t" The MSM is forcing me to curse and speak to inanimate objects. Can I sue?
Class action - we've ALL been harmed.
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