BREAKING: Fallujah - Marine heroes find many weapons BREAKING: Najaf - American heroes tighten grip BREAKING: Distinguished Italian hero hostage murderedPosted on 04/16/2004 8:38:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis
BREAKING: Fallujah - Marine heroes find many weapons BREAKING: Najaf - American heroes tighten grip BREAKING: Distinguished Italian hero hostage murdered
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TODAY - IRAQ; THE GOOD, THE BAD, and the PUG-UGLIES
========= Fallujah =========
BREAKING:
In Fallujah, Marine heroes find many cache of weapons,
then unload rifles, weapons, and multiple rocket launchers, confiscated.
Some blew up good.
In Fallujah, Marines and other heroes look for terrorists
who previously prospered and thrive under Saddam.
BREAKING:
In Fallujah, Marine heroes help a terrorist, in his chicken coupe, get to his feet.
They found a high powered sniper rifle behind a seat in his car.
In Fallujah, Iraqi Army soldiers assist US heroes
despite false info from American media.
BEHIND ENEMY LINES BREAKING:
In Fallujah, a well-healed terrorist displays the
latest Baghdad CD hailing the terrorists' frequency. [Kenneth?]
The CD identifies the terrorist cowards who hide
behind human shields, children and hostages.
========= Najaf =========
BREAKING:
In Najaf, American heroes on the roll against terrorism.
BREAKING:
In Najaf, Army heroes tighten the grip of Freedom around Iraq's
terrorist enclave filled with Iranian and Syrian Shia terrorists.
In Najaf, Iraqi policemen on guard.
Somewhere Najaf, at least one al-Sadr terrorist was apprehended.
BEHIND ENEMY LINES
The old City of Najaf with the Imam Ali Mosque in the center.
BREAKING:
In Najaf, in front of Imam Ali shrine.
In Najaf, at the keep of Muqtada al-Sadr.
The runt Shi'ite usurping terrorist al-Sadr is interviewed on television.
BREAKING:
In Najaf, on the trail of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Mehdi Army
sniper on a hill overlooking the brick factory housing US heroes.
The Mehdi Army, militia of the al-Sadr
purport that he is hiding near Kufa, outside of Najaf.
At Kufa mosque, that "woman" on the right could not be. Is she a he?
=========== Basra ===========
In Basra, Shi'ite Abdul-Satar Al-Bahadi at Friday prayers
promises to attack the flank of America and the Coalition forces
as they are involved with Najaf to the northeast.
========= Fabrizio Quattrocchi =========
BREAKING:
Italian hostage Fabrizio Quattrocchi, kidnapped by Iraqi (read Iranian and Syrian) terrorists
was murdered as the terrorists posed for Al-Jazeera television which was going to
show his vicious murder until he said, "I'm going to show you how an Italian dies."
Al-Jazeera which has NO trouble masking out terrorists faces and showing beheadings
decided this comment of heroism facing terror could not go out. It has not.
Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 36, in better times.
=========== Sedna ===========
At 8 billion miles, Sedna is a pixel
in high-resolution mode with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys
(equivalent to trying to see a soccer ball 900 miles away)
~three-quarters the diameter of Pluto, or about 1,000 miles across.
The gravitational tug of a moon would best explain Sedna's
extremely slow rotation of between 20-50 days,
as inferred from ground-based photometric observations
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HELLO and THANKS to those serving overseas and those who got this RIGHT.
HELLO and THANKS to those FReepers who bring light to a long tunnel.
Please help TODAY for a few hours in the War for Enduring Freedom.
END OF TRANSMISSION 4/16/04 .......... K
A shared frustration, especially in that the reason we are taking so many casualties is that there are political factors at work.
No reason for Fallujah to not experience the Shock and Awe that was promised to them a year ago.
That would also get the attention of the shiites and they would clean up their messes quickly.
I also think that we should be more forceful about the hostage situations. Sadr's family should be captured and held until every last hostage is released.
"Sanitize" is good. Works for me. About 20kt. on Mecca and Medina.
Man, I want one....I'm stuck with a crappy sporter stock...Ugh...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/104ivafk.asp?pg=1
THE STUDENT of human nature who seems best to have recognized the importance of this bizarre dynamic, in which a conscientious hero proves unable to finish off a foe he knows to be evil, was none other than Shakespeare. Indeed, the Bard was obsessed with understanding the phenomenon. Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved. But it is in "Richard III" that one can learn most from characters who see evil, yet freeze at the key moment. The principal characters are fully aware of Richard's undeniable evil, yet they let him have his way despite themselves. Richard is the most systematically evil character in all of Shakespeare's plays. "I can smile, and murder while I smile," he says, swearing that he will outdo all the villains of history "and set the murderous Machiavel to school."
The most important thing Richard knows is that while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it actually blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.
The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil's most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society. Conscience is supposed to be the faculty that helps us become aware of our effects on others and our motives towards them, notably our baser motives. In Elizabethan English, "conscience" is an equivocal word that can mean either that faculty that allows us to feel guilt or "awareness," as in "consciousness." When Hamlet says, "Conscience does make cowards of us all," he means consciousness, by making us aware of the possibility of death, makes us cowardly.
But conscience, designed to ferret out evil within, can also actually narrow our awareness of evil. This happens, according to Freud, because the person with a conscience learns to repress automatically his own most destructive inclinations so as not to act on them. He becomes ignorant, for example, of the thrill of evil that a sadist like Richard III feels when he plays God and exercises the freedom to kill whomever he pleases. But the cost of repressing one's most destructive feelings is an inability to understand, without significant effort, those who give these feelings free rein.
This is seen over and over in "Richard III," especially in Richard's seduction of Lady Anne, whose husband he has murdered, and it is seen over and over in our dealings with terrorists. Richard actually gets Anne to drop her sword when she's about to kill him. Anne, although she knows Richard is evil, cannot see that he has no conscience. She tells him he should hang himself for what he has done. She keeps missing the point. He feels no guilt. Eventually, she marries him, and he murders her.
Conscience, when it is functioning well--automatically and without the intervention of reason, so that we do the right thing without thinking--is not simply rational. It is a force, a blunt instrument before which the conscientious person is guilty until proven innocent. As the preventive agency in the mind, conscience blocks first, thinks later. Men like Arafat and Richard know this. That is why both men constantly charge others with crimes--to paralyze them. Both know it doesn't matter whether the charges are false. Richard brazenly accuses Anne of inspiring the murder of her husband, as Arafat accuses the West of causing terrorism.
It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column. Having himself no such inner force always second-guessing him, he can see it clearly in others--far more clearly than do those who are in its thrall and take each of its charges seriously. Arafat gets endless second chances because the conscience of the West is doing what a conscience does: second-guessing the West's own actions. That is why Arafat is always playing upon the conscience of the West, especially by his endless recourse to "international law" and invocation of "human rights," an utterly brazen ploy coming from a terrorist.
Law, in the democracies, is like a civic conscience, and like conscience, it is the bluntest of instruments. Because law, in democracies, is made by the people, it has their respect. Democratic citizens are prone to the illusory hope that the law can be applied successfully in international affairs between regimes regardless of whether they are democracies or tyrannies, strong or weak. The name for this hope is "international law." But because the law in tyrannies is ultimately the product of one man's whim, a mere vehicle of the preeminent will and power, it cannot restrain the preeminent will and power. Conscientiousness in no way attaches to the law in tyrannies. International agreements with tyrants are meaningless, yet pursuit of such agreements is precisely what the State Department is now endorsing by trying to get Israel to sit at the table with Arafat.
"What is the law?" Saddam Hussein once asked. Then he answered his own question. "The two lines above my signature."
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