New savage twist to violence in Baghdad

Too true. After that first battle of Fallujah, and after a lot of noble blood spilled, we let that pot bellied jackle go to "nice up" to the poplulation. Should have killed him then and razed the city. If any comparison to this "fledgling" democracy in Iraq is to be made to American history, it should be to Lincoln's vain wanderings and the answer of total war by Grant and Sherman. The war was only decided when those men stepped forward and met the enemy with the teeth of a conquerer. Had we been severe in the beginning we may well have won the opportunity to show mercy. Our boys deserve better. I've often lemented the loss of those who never "made it off the beach" because some jackass in Washington felt they were expendable. Isn't this what turns our stomaches- to see our enemies treated like men and our men like dogs? The only reassurance I have is that Providence will again take us by the hand and in a dark hour we will be resucitated to that rugged Americanism.

Well, with any luck they will reciprocally exterminate one another, ideally to the last relative up to, and including, the 12th degree. Dealing with those [if any] still remaining ought to become much easier thereby.

My feelings on this is much like my feelings would be about Germans and Italians killing each other during WWII. Let them at it. Yes, innocent civilians will be killed, but this is a fact of all wars, international or civil. The worst possible position to be in is standing between belligerent parties yelling "peace". You get killed and accomplish nothing.
Reconstruction only works with a totally defeated enemy. This is not the case with Iraq. We consciously decided not to fight an all out war that would have brought Iraq to it's knees. Whether this was right or wrong is now a moot point. We can't stop the hatred and we can't stop the civil war. Our only strategy should be what is in the best interest of the United States, accepting the escalating violence as a given. I want to hear our "leaders" talk about this. It might be that we take sides with the Kurds and watch the carnage as spectators, only to insure that the aftermath is not a threat to the U.S.
We must become more hard nosed and abandon our wishful utopian ideas about "forcing" others to be peaceful, freedom loving, patriots. That our Country is blessed by such people is enough for me.

an interesting article by Michael Novak in weeklystandard.com 11/22/06 titled "what the islamists have learned(how to defeat the US in future wars)". It really opened my eyes as it is what I 'knew' in my heart. But to actually read the words of these fanatics was downright terrifying! It explains about how they use drills ect... on the victims they kidnap and the mainstream media in the US does there propaganda work for them. Chilling...and true!

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said."
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Animals.

What do you think of your pretty muslim boys now, American Muslims?

What? I can't hear you...cowards!

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