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?
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.
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.