Posted on 07/09/2007 12:29:47 PM PDT by bnelson44
When context is other people’s children
As I write these words just a few miles from the graves I saw, the resulting controversy about whether what the man said was true, or whether his words should have been written if the writer couldn’t verify them, seems precious. There is no imaginary line of credulity that al Qaeda might cross should it go from beheading children to baking them.
No unnamed Iraqi stringer claimed that al Qaeda had taken over Baqubah. Al Qaeda said this through the press. I sit writing these words in Diyala Province just a short drive from where the self-proclaimed leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed by a bomb delivered by a US warplane. Al Qaeda: the organization that gleefully bragged about murdering roughly 3,000 people by smashing jets full of civilians into buildings and earth. Al Qaeda in Iraq: who proudly broadcast their penchant for sawing off the heads of living breathing people, and in such a manner as to ensure lots of spurting blood and gurgles of final pain, in some cases with the added flourish of the executioner raising up the severed head and squealing excitedly.
These are the same terrorists I often come face to face with: not on television or in magazines, but on bloodstained streets ablaze with human carnage. I remember the charred corpse of a small Iraqi boy. I remember the wailing Iraqi parents and countless other scenes that I am likely to see again and again. Back in 2005, terrorists here were intentionally attacking children. I shot the photo below on a day when they drove a car bomb through a crowd of children who had run out to American soldiers on patrol.
(Excerpt) Read more at michaelyon-online.com ...
The Iraqi people had better put aside their differences and kill off all these miserable bastards soon. They don’t have to join the army or police. Just point out where the goons stay, and let those that can and will kill them do what must be done.
Thanks for the follow-up pacelvi. I hope Yon can somehow get the military to confirm this mass grave (from the article.) It’s a necessary step in the process. Without it, few will believe it, some will remain skeptical, while others won’t believe it at all.
Alqeda did it in Yugoslavia. Milosevic was charged with it.
We know he did it because Clinton convinced us he did. /sarc
Quadrant, I understood what you said.....and then I read this. Just in case you missed this....enjoy!
This is one of Micheal Yon’s best. I just wish we had the same leadership in the Senate that we find in General Patreus. Hopefully you won’t mind that I pinged you.
I think Ernie Pile was reincarnated as Micheal Yon. This is a most excellent dispatch!
Amazing, just amazing
Micheal Yon is at his very best. Please find some time to read this latest dispatch. I found it interesting and then very moving. Leadership, it seems, we have in spades in the Military and lack so dreadfully in the Senate. MSM is too stupid and traitorous to even mention, yet I just did.
I thank you for the ping. Incredible story, and a great read.
Thanks for the ping.
ping
And that, my friends, is why we have to prevail.
And this is precisely what the liberal left fails to understand.
Carolyn
Thanks for the ping. Micheal Yon is a treasure.
‘Al-Qaida is setting the All Time World Gold Standard for UTTERLY INSANE SAVAGERY. They make clinically insane people look ‘quirky’. They make Nazi’s look like school boys. They are a textbook example of how religious extremeism can lead to the most unholy behavior imaginable.’
And the left-wing press and Democrats love them.
Sad, isn’t it?
Thanks much for the ping. Michael Yon’s reporting makes the scene - good, bad, or ugly - come alive.
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