Posted on 03/23/2003 11:14:38 AM PST by hole_n_one
Good question. That would have been a much better alternative than letting him guard the grenades.
Your comments are right on in each one of those cases. The mainstream press will treat them as isolated incidents but we all know our first instincts have been correct all along.
Again, you don't make sense - We could ( and did ) trust them to fight beside us against the allies of their Emperor.
We would not ( and did not ) put them in a position where they might be mistaken for enemies disguised as our soldiers.
...Or put them in a position where the prejudices of those around them might cloud the mission.
American soldiers of Japanese decent were not singled out by their religion, but simply by their names, or background, or facial characteristics
By your faulted reasoning, only those Shintoists should have been singled out.
Islamists for sure.
Here's a happy thought from Middle East expert Daniel Pipes:
Islamists constitute a small but significant minority of Muslims, perhaps 10 to 15 per cent of the population. Many of them are peaceable in apearance, but they all must be considered potential killers.
How does 400,000 to 800,000 -- in our country -- potential killers sound?
Meet an Islamist -- peaceable in appearance, killer
America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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... and don't forget those of French or German descent - or anyone who looks like any of those "peace protestors" ....
Amen!...will GWB take back our military? I hope and pray he does.
Exactly. And I'm sure they're investigating whether he has training beyond being an engineer sargeant. After all, he knew where the grenades were, etc. The grenades were packed up for moving out. Check out sptimes.com today. They have an imbedded reporter, Wes Allison. It's a one page article that I just don't have time to post.
It's REALLY GOOD ABOUT asan akbar but they are short on details about Captain Siefert. Another article states that Siefert has a wife of four years and an infant.
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