I doubt it, though -- to you, both a blessing and a curse; for us, a bitter misfortune to have lost you. I salute you.
AVE ATQUE VALE.
Posted on 03/23/2003 9:10:39 AM PST by Lessismore
On Sunday afternoon, the Qatar-based television al Jazeera broadcast Iraqi TV, showing a videotape of at least 10 US POWs, including one female soldier, and a room with some 15 bodies of US troops. The live broadcast included also a footage of a battle field area in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya with additional corpses of US soldiers as well as struck military equipment.
The videotape has also shown how the Iraqis investigate the American POWs. The prisoners were questioned on air and gave their names, military identification numbers and home towns.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force conceded that there were American soldiers missing, but said that there were fewer than 10 troops unaccounted for in southern Iraq.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned Sunday it was possible that Iraqi forces had taken U.S. prisoners, saying there were unaccounted soldiers and journalists in the combat zone.
He noted that under the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."
Earlier, it was reported that U.S. Marines battled for control of Nassiriya, taking "significant" casualties in a fight to open a route north to Baghdad, military officials said.
Reuters quoted military officials as saying the Marine battalion spearheading the fight had suffered significant casualties in the battle.
A total of 11 U.S. soldiers were captured after taking a wrong turn, and 50 military personnel have been wounded in the massive firefight in Nassiriya, ABCNEWS reported Sunday.
According to the report, 11 soldiers, maintenance workers, had taken a wrong turn outside the city on a mission to carry out repair work. They were traveling in a column of vehicles that came under heavy fire, including from an Iraqi tank. The capture was observed by other forces nearby.
The firefight at Nassiriya blocked an advance by U.S. forces, who had earlier reported securing two key bridgeheads to enable them to cross the Euphrates and strike northwards toward the Iraqi capital.
Reuters said there was heavy U.S. helicopter traffic over the area, and that hundreds of U.S. military trucks and armored personnel carriers had stopped their advance.
Iraqi Information Minister Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference in Baghdad that foreign invaders headed to Nassiriya had been "taught a lesson they will never forget." "We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead," he said. (Albawaba.com)
Oh puleeease...just how stupid do you think we all are?
The Pope is trying to prevent a Christian vs. Muslim crusade. That's why he's saying what he's saying.
Calling the war a "crime against humanity" was a bit over the top, though.
George W. Bush is doing the right thing here, and I suspect the Pope won't lose any sleep over this war.
I miss sitetest's posts, but getting in a snit over the banning of someone who went off on the President the way Catholic Guy did is misplaced.
Comparing Bush to Hitler is more than a "little out of hand."
I suspect CatholicGuy's a Buchananite, though I've never confronted him on it.
It also bans the execution of POWs (as if that needed to be encoded anywhere).
Askel said that the United States shouldn't expect to be covered by the Geneva Convention when it went against the major signatories of that convention (that's the UN) in going ahead with this war.
That's reprehensible, IMO. The UN exhibited cowardice, and will be embarrassed after this war ends.
Askel also said, during our incursion into Afghanistan, that the Taliban were unfairly demonized; they were, after all, against abortion, drugs, and pornography.
Askel's a very angry young woman, and she's taking it out on the country.
Not only reprehensible, but wrong. The laws of war apply to all armed conflicts--whether they are blessed by the ignoble, feckless UN and its cheese-eating surrender monkeys or not.
Askel5's brain is free-wheeling in empty space. LP is a good place for her.
Where is the US engaged in "eugenics"? Or genetic engineering, for that matter? The Congress, and Bush, are trying to ban cloning and any stem cell research on embryos beyond those already in labs.
I don't agree with you. At all.
If that is indeed what she said then I would disagree with that statement.
Askel also said, during our incursion into Afghanistan, that the Taliban were unfairly demonized; they were, after all, against abortion, drugs, and pornography.
This is, in a nutchell, her baby. Nothing is more evil to her than the current culture. The taliban are evil SOBs, no doubt about it. Her point was, though, that they haven't they killed 45 million of their own in the womb, or harvested out untold amounts of humans like crops of corn for they cells. Which is the greater evil? What they did to their women or what we do to ours? We are a peaceful people, never harming our neighbors. We only harm our own. Her argument has merit on that level.
But why banning? Why not just knock her down in the arena of ideas if her ideas are so wrong. I always considered her a great contributor to our catholic caucus and will miss her and will pray for her.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation sink. I'm getting offline and going on a walk. Probably won't be back until Eastertime. Have a fruitful lent.
So much for me walk. :)
Put in a search at google for genetic engineering+latest research. Check out the University of Wisconsin. Check out the NIH. Check out the human-pig chimeras. Materialist athiest science is running the show in this country...running the culture of atomism. Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins and Stephern Hawking aren't exaclty backing away from their views these days. <
What does this mean? I just want to make sure you're not turning into a Bircher.
I doubt it, though -- to you, both a blessing and a curse; for us, a bitter misfortune to have lost you. I salute you.
AVE ATQUE VALE.
That's what makes this place so interesting. Let's hope in the coming week cooler admin heads prevail and perhaps Askel5 is permitted back. Her zeal should be checked, but eliminated? She made interesting and useful contributions as passionate people do, we can forgive a lack of circumspection, no? V's wife.
Passion is one thing, deep psychosis is another.
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