[goldstategop]

Dear Helen: This activist from Fallujah thinks its a quaqmire for HIS side. Well worth a read before you spout errant nonsense about the performance of our brave soldiers in Iraq. Do read on:

From the pen of the inmitable Israeli cudgemeon Steven Plaut, comes this report on the events in Fallujah signed by a guy John F. Kerry would also praise to the heavens given the chance:

No FAIR! A Letter of Protest to an American Soldier from a Fallujah Activist

Hey, yank. NO FAIR! You did not behave the way you were supposed to. Sure, all we did was kill some American soldiers in cold blood and drag their bodies through the streets for people to spit on. But that is certainly not a reason for you guys to react the way you did.

Well, to tell you the truth, we expected you to react like Israelis. We figured that if we kill a few of your people, your government will start whining about how there is no military solution to the problems of terror, that the problem is that the world has failed to understand the suffering of the Iraqi "Other", and that occupation is the worst crime on the planet. We expected your government to react like Shimon Peres, and to offer to arm the people who murdered the soldiers and bankroll them, to help put them in power lest the really radical terrorists take power. We were sure the yanks would invite the Shi'ite and Sunni militia chief who are killing American and Allied soldiers to set up their own state and to annex sections of Washington DC.

I mean, why should not the Americans respond to our terror the same way the Israelis do? Why do they not label our killers activists and militants? Why do they not try to win us over with goodwill gestures and concessions? Why do they not offer to change the American national anthem and the flag to make us feel more accepted? Why do they not let our agents serve as Congressmen and Senators? Why do they not pay subsidies to the widows and orphans of Iraqi suicide bombers, like the Israelis do? Why doesn't the American President lecture his public about how the whole war is their own fault, that they have been insensitive and trying to rule over another people? Why doesn't the US respond to the terror by disarming unilaterally, like the Israelis do? Why don't the Americans send delegations to Geneva to sign agreements in which they capitulate to all our demands? Why don't they offer us control over the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial? Why don't they let us move to Virginia and Maryland in the thousands?

Not only are you not behaving like Israelis, but you are not even behaving like Clinton. We recall how Clinton ordered the Americans to run away with their tails between their legs when the Somalis killed a few. SO how dare you!

How dare you round up and mow down 130 Iraqi terrorists in just one day? How dare you respond to our Tet Offensive, our Intifada, through force of arms? How dare you respond other than with cowardice and defeatism? How dare you fight back? How dare you exhibit courage?

Have you not learned anything at all from the Israelis? Don't you know there are no military ways to fight terror?

Signed,
A Fallujah Activist

[Sabatier]

...It was the ambush and murder of four American security company agents at Fallujah on Wednesday...

That would be the "carefully-orchestrated-to-get-the-media's-attention-ambush-and-murder" that has gotten notice from Helen and her brethren, or coven, as the case may be.
The "carefully-orchestrated-to-get-the-media's-attention-ambush-and-murder" which was designed to provoke the media yowls of "quagmire" and "Vietnam", etc.
It's like ringing the bell for Pavlov's dog, catnip for a cat, cheese in a mousetrap, the total ease with which calculating tribal warlords who want to send us all back to the stone age manipulate the US mainstream media into the usual quivery responses. Thanks Helen!

[Gritty]

Some people are delusional.

Helen Thomas qualifies.

[presidio9]

[dougiefresh]

Helen's hair is a quagmire

[Unicorn]

Is she still alive?

[SF Republican]

Helen is the poster child for burkas

[dalebert]

Some Democrat from the 911 commission on FOX said that they would be asking Condi about what is being done now to prevent 911 and things could turn political. Lol! I thought the commission was supposed to investigate what led up to 911 and make recommendations. Not investigate what is going on now. I expect them to ask questions relating to national security so she will have to decline answering over and over.

[T'wit]

I'd rather spend ten years in a quagmire than one minute being Helen Thomas. Or ten seconds looking at Helen Thomas.

[Publius]

But will the United States be able to win the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqis?

"When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
--John Mitchell

[Outraged]

It is sickening that the anti-American left/DNC get every American soldier's dead body and parade it around the media street, yelling and screaming and beating GW Bush over the head with it. It is an offense to the families who lost loved ones and a disgrace to the memory of 9/11.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

All the usual suspects a/k/a Demoncraps (Thomas, Kerry, Kennedy, Daschle, Don Imus, et. al.) are up to their old ways -- giving aid and comfort to the enemy. All this talk of Vietnam and Quagmire can only add fuel to the fire over in Iraq -- and lead to more rather than fewer American casualties by inducing the ragheads to rise up and fight.

Years after my return from Vietnam, I maintained we were fighting the wrong Cong. We should have first fought the Congresscritters who wanted to gut our efforts and then fought the Viet Cong (and the North Vietnamese Army.)

[Democratshavenobrains]

Can someone please tell me when Bush EVER said that it would be a cakewalk?

[woofie]

now I know we are on the right track

[COBOL2Java]

It was supposed to be a cakewalk for the American troops invading Iraq. The Iraqis were to throw flowers as the conquerors marched in and took over their country.

Sorry, I couldn't get past the first two sentences before I had to give up on this claptrap.