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When Will Iraqis Apologize for THIS???
Drudge Report ^ | 5-05-04 | Drudge

Posted on 05/05/2004 6:09:40 PM PDT by jmstein7

When Will Iraqis Apologize for THIS???

How Quickly We Forget...


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To: RedBloodedAmerican
This is the whole point. I don't hold ALL Iraqis responsible for this unspeakable action toward our soldiers .. therefore, they need to learn they cannot hold every soldier responsible for the unspeakable actions of a few.
121 posted on 05/05/2004 8:25:08 PM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: jmstein7
At least what the Iraqi's recently got was a walk in the park. They are alive today to tell about their experience. To be honest and forthright, I was actually elated to see the Iraqi's protesting outside the Abu Gharib prison on TV today. To me it was a clear sign of American made Democracy in action. They wouldn't have been able to do that sort of protesting under a Saddam regime.
122 posted on 05/05/2004 8:35:14 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old)
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To: CyberAnt
Right. Just like John Kerry and his dispicable charge that 2.8 million Vietnam veterans were rapists, murderers and babykillers. We don't know the full story, and he won't comment on whether or not he was participating in the sort of barbaric chicanary he spoke about in front of the Senate Intel Committee in 1971.
123 posted on 05/05/2004 8:37:20 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old)
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To: jmstein7
How quickly people forget! Thanks for the post.
124 posted on 05/05/2004 8:58:56 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: jmstein7
BTTT
125 posted on 05/05/2004 9:17:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (LESS government please, NOT more.)
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To: ExSoldier
http://www.newsherald.com/viewpoint/phillucas/040404.shtml

Up against fanaticism

By Phil Lucas
Executive Editor

If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity of thought or if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too.

This piece is not for you.

We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims.

Some readers didn’t like it.

Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman who works with Muslim physicians thought it might offend or endanger them.

Well, we sure don’t want to frighten, offend or endanger anybody, do we? That’s just too much diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get hurt.

We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of fanatical Muslims. They can’t get along with their neighbors on much of the planet: France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc. etc. etc. Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not involved? Today, where there is war, there are fanatical Muslims. We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but look at the sheer number of them.

One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they slaughtered more than 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York City.

Madeline Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resented the Crusades. Well, Madame Albright, if Westerners were not such a forgiving people, we might resent them too.

Let’s recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe and when they reached sufficient numbers they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.

Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound familiar?

Let’s consider the concept of a “long war.” Last time it was 200 years, give or take.

Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn’t fiction, the part that drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the titanic struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the worshipping of death.

That’s the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys.

There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims – some live here – but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Centers, the millions gassed and butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death.

Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on “diversity,” we are so nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we’re so addled on Ritalin we wouldn’t know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a backbone.

It doesn’t take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win. No exceptions.

Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are the people out to kill you.

Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history. Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back for half a century. Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight.

Like it or not, that’s the way it was and that’s the way it is.

But many Americans don’t get it.

That’s why we published those pictures.

If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared your children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say, it’s a start.


126 posted on 05/05/2004 9:41:13 PM PDT by JoanOfArk (USAFVet....Mother of Army Vet....Daughter of Navy Vet...Mamaw)
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To: jmstein7
You are so right !!! I've been thinking the same thing. Thanks for posting this thread.
127 posted on 05/05/2004 9:46:24 PM PDT by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: JoanOfArk
But Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and Paul Craig Roberts say our problems with Moslems are all the Jews' fault.
128 posted on 05/05/2004 9:49:39 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: jmstein7
NEVER FORGET !


129 posted on 05/05/2004 10:03:24 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MKC USCG - ret)
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To: jmstein7
You got it!
130 posted on 05/05/2004 10:11:57 PM PDT by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: jmstein7
AMEN!

We should apologize when hell freezes over!!!
131 posted on 05/05/2004 10:13:37 PM PDT by ladyinred (Kerry has more flip flops than Waikiki Beach)
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To: bannie
WE don't...the Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom--the liberal "news" spewers tie our hands with propaganda crap which sheeple believe...DO.

EXACTLY! They are manipulating public opinion and putting all of us including our troops in harms way!

Say NO to the media!

132 posted on 05/05/2004 10:21:04 PM PDT by ladyinred (Kerry has more flip flops than Waikiki Beach)
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To: Mrs Zip
ping
133 posted on 05/05/2004 10:31:18 PM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 42% of americans)
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To: rintense
Where was the outrage in the Media when
American citizens, women and innocent children
where subjected to a CS gas attack and burned
to death,(Waco), by various agents of the federal
government, said agents never being held
accountable for this vicious atrocity?

The Media Matrix glories in the blood of our
good young men, it IS the enemy within, the
intensity of the campaign to destroy the will
of the American people to support the fight
is in full cry.
As Americans we may have no
choice but to take to the streets again as we
did at the beginning of the war in Iraq. We
will need to become our own media, record the
demonstrations to send to our soldiers in
Iraq. We need to engage in this battle using
the same weapons the Media in this country and
in the Middle East uses.
134 posted on 05/05/2004 10:50:01 PM PDT by appaloosa
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To: RaceBannon
AMEN
135 posted on 05/05/2004 10:58:33 PM PDT by TomasUSMC
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To: jmstein7
I guess President Bush never saw these pictures or maybe he received an apology we didn't hear about from his Religion of Peace.
136 posted on 05/05/2004 11:00:25 PM PDT by TomasUSMC
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To: jmstein7
re:How Quickly We Forget...
Forget nothing - The point is *we* are supposed to be better then that.
As for those bastard screws at Abu Gharib, I hope the they hang the lot of them - especially the command staff that allowed this crap to go on.
in the coming months there're gonna be some deaths on these twisted *ssholes hands - this is the kind of crap that puts people on the over to the otherside. maybe not shooting or planting ieds, but giving information on travel shcedules, routes etc, where someone otherwise wouldn't.
yeeesh.
"We weren't taught about the geneva convention" - BOLLOCKS! whiny, pathetic bastards wont even accept responsibility. hang em.
137 posted on 05/06/2004 2:58:18 AM PDT by tomakaze (Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.)
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To: jmstein7
BTTT!!!!!!
138 posted on 05/06/2004 3:05:59 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: jmstein7
BTTT
139 posted on 05/06/2004 3:26:32 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: CyberAnt
Exactly!
140 posted on 05/06/2004 4:07:31 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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