Maybe We Should Kill More of Them

boblonsberry.com ^ | 6/30/03 | Bob Lonsberry

[The Louiswu]

Killing their families will only make them fight harder.
I conclude that the extremeists we are fighting will never give up, they have no good reason to.
If they die killing US troops, they go to heaven, if they surrender they live under American rule
A no-brainer for a fanatic.

[milan]

Killing their families will only make them fight harder.

Possibly, but their families won't be producing anymore terrorists.

All I know is what has worked historically. Bomb their a$$es into the stone age...they are less likely to give you problems; Germany, Japan, and to a small extent at the end of the war, Vietnam. That was the only thing that brought the Vietnamese to the peace table...carpet bombing of cities we avoided for years!

[MEG33]

Right now we are in a dangerous position.I feel a kick in the gut when our soldiers are killed.We have lost about21 brave men to hostile fire(US) since May 1st.It is a great loss but not for the situation.They think we will not stay the course but we will.God bless our troops.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Short, simplistic, stupid answer to a long term, complex problem.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You are correct. No less than John McCain testified that it was Nixon's bombing of Hanoi that got American POWs released. And the Japanese and Germans had their cities mostly destroyed and families wiped out. They were in no mood to argue with the new sheriff in town.

[MissAmericanPie]

I don't agree, war is all about killing people, the enemy. All Bath Party members should be rounded up and unceremoniously executed.

[SAMWolf]

There's no "maybe" about it.

The entire middle east isn't worth one American soldier.

[SevenDaysInMay]

The leftists are cheerfully reporting that Bush announced that the War was over. So why are our guys still being killed by "civilian" dress soldiers, aka war criminals?

The "battle" for Iraq, the Sodamn campaign, is far from complete. Iran and Syria are funneling in jihadies as well as their own pan-Islamist special forces, under various aliases. $audi support aids and comforts those who want murderous dictators stealing national economies blind, in the blasphemed name of their god, as interpreted by a murdering thief turned invader. See 'Mein Koran' and Haddith, their battle plan.

I pray that this police action, in the face of a slow paced murder rate of our guys, is buying our war effort time to R&R and rearm.

Far beyond our righteous hot pursuits, Syria and Iran are vying for "next". A move over Syria will require a large force on Iran's frontier as those millions of Persian pair of dice seekers want their post-mortem virgins and rivers of wine.

With or without "democracy", we may be creating the needed predicate for a united Pan-Islam union under religious leaders to war perpetually against us and our children's children. Our values makes a mockery of busy little wahabbees interpretation of Islam, and they are both militant and fighting for control of The Mob in the Arab Street. MAD may not work.

At our war success, the UN and Old Europe are vexed. Our world socialist Dems are vexed.

The Western World will be hexed if we Americans fail to destroy our mortal enemies where they breed future jihadies faster than we are willing to kill them.

[milan]

I know it sounds brutal and it is, but that is what war is; brutal and cold destruction of life and property. It works!!!

The first Gulf War was not a success. I partcipated. I helped boot Saddam out of Kuwait. They got their country back, but it didn't solve the problem. Now we are back and have done the same precision work but are occupying the country. We have yet to show these people that this isn't a game.

How I wish we never had to face things are brutal as war. But if we don't face it, we will be wiped from this planet. So, if we have to do it, do it with an iron fist and beg God for forgiveness when we are done.

[milan]

I will take it a step further. Their families should be executed for not turning them in.

[arete]

They are illegal, out-of-uniform comabatants committing war crimes in violation of the Geneva Convention.

Probably a minor point but it is their country and we are the invaders and occupying force. Geneva convention -- that's a good one.

Richard W.

[Coop]

Sixty Americans dead since we pulled down the statues and hardly a day passes that more names aren’t added to that tally.

Two-thirds of those deaths are from accidents. Shall we blow up cars and trucks to show those nasty vehicles we mean business? Or maybe hit the factories in Detroit and Japan?

Please put "Vanity" in the title of such a nonsensical post.

[Coop]

My mistake. Not a vanity (your writing). Someone actually made an article out of this. Amazing.

[milan]

I am willing to carpet bomb Baghdad to save one American soldier. Damn the Iraqis for not having the balls to solve their own problems. They are a bunch of worthless pathetic excuses for humans that don't have the balls to fight for their own freedom...we have to do it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I was a little American kid when the American Army of occupation was running Japan in the 1950s. The Japanese were thoroughly and completely whipped and there was no question who was in charge. Anything less will not work.

[BlackbirdSST]

All Bath Party members should be rounded up and unceremoniously executed.

What does one look like? Or should we just kill 'em all and sort it out later? For that matter, what does a Conservative Republican look like? I tend to agree that they should be rounded up, but just where does one start such a roundup? We should have never been there to begin with, but I digress! Blackbird.

[MosesKnows]

Sixty Americans dead since we pulled down the statues

This is a true statement, but very misleading.

Considering the "down on points" theme, some perspective is required to give your suggestion the attention it deserves. Sixty Americans have died since we pulled down the statues but only twenty died at the hands of the enemy. That indicates a hugh success.

[Coop]

I am willing to carpet bomb Baghdad to save one American soldier.

Yeah, so am I, if I thought that approach would work. But it won't.

[americanSoul]

If a grenade comes out of a crowd, kill the crowd.

Yes! Rummy is dropping the ball on this.

[MissAmericanPie]

Iraq is not the USofA, these people stay segregated from each other by communities. Baths are easy to lay ones hands on.