Posted on 11/18/2004 3:34:57 PM PST by writer33
One U.S. Marine, a cameraman, and a terrorist. The marine, acting in complete self-defense, fired the round into a terrorist pretending to be dead. Seconds later, the terrorist was dead, and now part of the mosque’s décor.
What do you get when you add all of that up? A compulsion to run with the tape. The mainstream media had President Bush now. This will get him impeached. They knew this ‘Cowboy’ was sending troops over to Iraq to murder innocent civilians. The Dennis Kucinich theory was in full swing. Somehow, the liberal press would have you believe that this poor, unarmed, Iraqi civilian would still be alive had this trigger-happy Marine not gunned him down in cold blood.
Democrats have pulled out all the stops and the Civil Rights lawyers to defend this poor, “insurgents” soul. Michael Gross was already championing the plight of this suffering, innocent terrorist on Hannity & Colmes, November 16, 2004. So, the strategy begins for liberals and the Democratic Party. Dig up anything and everything they can on President Bush and press for impeachment and removal from office; a theory expressed by Rush Limbaugh months before the reelection of President Bush.
In order to have that happen, liberals and the mainstream press want everyone in America to think our soldiers are murderous thugs, thugs that were duped into going to Iraq at the whim of an unchecked, imbecilic, war-mongering president. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coasties are honorable men and women, serving with distinction in a war that protects the life of everyone in this United States, and they spread liberty throughout the world. In a Reuters news story, his fellow brother-in-arms defended that brave marine. “I would have shot the insurgent too. Two shots to the head,” said Nicholas Graham, 24, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “You can’t trust these people. He should not be investigated. He did nothing wrong.”
Exactly the point. If we are to believe this Iraqi man is an innocent civilian, then what was he doing faking his death? Why would a civilian caught up in the battle not cry out for help? Especially when help was right there? Because he wasn’t an innocent civilian, and he wasn’t an “insurgent.” He was a terrorist assassin out to kill Americans, period. He could’ve been booby-trapped. He could’ve had a hand grenade in his hand. There is a myriad of possibilities that could’ve led this marine to shoot him. Speculation at this point is a typical senseless agenda. This shouldn’t have even made the news. There should’ve been cheers for the marine for doing his job. Instead, we have Democratic operatives trying to insert doubt into the minds of the American people by insisting on an investigation.
Since the days of Watergate, liberals have been trying to remove conservatives by scandal. It seems to be the only method they know how to use. So, by suggesting that there needs to be an investigation behind this shooting, they’re implying that there is something wrong, something the American people need to know. Democrats want everyone to think that this marine performed a war crime. The kind of crime John Kerry committed while in Vietnam. They hope, in their warped machinations, that Americans will begin to think of Iraq as they did Vietnam, which happened to be the entire philosophy of the Kerry campaign. It’s the kind of rhetoric that Janine Garofolo trumpets, the kind of lies the press wants in your subconscious. It didn’t work then, and it’s not going to work now.
Could America have survived World War II and Korea with the meddling press corps we have today? In those days, we would’ve leveled everything; anyone that didn’t get out of the zone would’ve been part of the landscape. Now, with precision weapons and an overly sensitive press, we exercise caution at every little nook, cranny, and mosque. During WWII, that marine would’ve been walking through a blasted pile of rubble. That’s why this marine found himself face to face with an injured “insurgent.” That’s why there’s a story for the press to blow completely out of proportion, and that’s why we’re in Iraq, to liberate the oppressed from terror.
We’re spreading freedom throughout Iraq, which will help to stabilize an extremely volatile area of the world. These assassins operate on one kind of mentality: “Kill ‘em all, let Allah sort ‘em out.” Which is why a terrorist—one that was injured from earlier fighting—was playing dead. This leaves our fine men and women of the U.S. Armed forces only one choice, survival of the fittest.
This marine did his duty. He made a judgement call, protected himself, his unit, and the United States of America. America should be proud of this young marine, bursting at the seams with confidence. This marine’s actions reflect great courage upon himself, his unit, the Marine Corps, and the United States of America.
Semper Fi, marine.
"Such a philosophy goes back a long way:"
I had no doubts that it did.
My suggestion: Remove the imbedded reporters. Then America won't be looking at these kinds of tapes.
Thanks, grunt. Already signed.
Thank you, TRS. I appreciate the sentiments. More than you know.
"I took a Marketing class in college and consumers were broken down to categories. The range was from Innovators (folks that always have to be THE FIRST to have something new) to Laggards"
When describing conservatives, Laggards are usually the best term. Why pay a high price for the same product for a much lower price a few months later. That is called Supply side economics where the market dictates the price.
Of course we have our fair share of innovators as well. Most of them evolve in business though.
Yep.I never will forget when I bought my very first home PC.
April 1, 1991. April Fool's day.
I shopped around and found the best deal I could. It was a good 3-4-5-6 months before I saw a better deal.
Of course, when you buy a computer, you're investing in fast obsolescence. For what I paid for that dinky slow computer then, you can get 5-6 of today's REAL PC's.
It had 1MB RAM, a 40MB hard drive and a 286 processor. With a 4800 modem, I believe. haha!
You've hit the bullseye. Of course, I liked the other mode of attack as well. And since when has the MSM given us the courtesy of a reach around. :)
"It had 1MB RAM, a 40MB hard drive and a 286 processor. With a 4800 modem, I believe. haha!"
Ouch! It makes you feel stupid now.
I just got my newer computer today. Cost me 180 dollars. It's a Pentium III processor with 256MB Ram. All I have to do is load XP on it and I'm ready. I figure why spend 500 dollars on a new Pentium 4 processor when I'm just below that at III. Plus it has all the memory of ram on it I'll need. I can't remember what the hard drive has, but it's a lot. Much better than the one I was working on.
I feel as if I've finally joined the 21st century. :) HA!
I like you, SampleMan.... very good and intelligent post, your no. 91.
Have to disagree with you. I was a Marine in Hue City in 1968. Later I was a Law Enforcement officer here in the states. ALL ARE JUSTIFIED IN KILLING SOMEONE if you believe your life, or other lives are in danger.
Worked with a cop who during a coroner's inquest over the fatal shooting replied "no, I wasn't in fear for my life, he only had a hatchet and I had a shotgun. I knew he wasn't going to kill me. I killed him". end of story.
Quote of the week, from the Wall Street Journal:
"Some 40 Marines have just lost their lives cleaning out one of the world's worst terror dens, in Fallujah, yet all the world wants to talk about is the NBC videotape of a Marine shooting a prostrate Iraqi inside a mosque.
The al-Zarqawi TV network, also known as Al-Jazeera, has broadcast the tape to the Arab world, and U.S. media have also played it up. The point seems to be to conjure up images again of Abu Ghraib, further maligning the American purpose in Iraq. Never mind that the pictures don't come close to telling us about the context of the incident, much less what was on the mind of the soldier after days of combat.
Put yourself in that Marine's boots. He and his mates have had to endure some of the toughest infantry duty imaginable, house-to-house urban fighting against an enemy that neither wears a uniform nor obeys any normal rules of war.
When not disemboweling Iraqi women, these killers hide in mosques and hospitals, booby-trap dead bodies, and open fire as they pretend to surrender. Their snipers kill U.S. soldiers out of nowhere. According to one account, the Marine in the videotape had seen a member of his unit killed by another insurgent pretending to be dead. Who from the safety of his Manhattan sofa has standing to judge what that Marine did in that mosque?"
--The Wall Street Journal
Thanks Mud.
Flying out tomorrow, coming back at the end of the week.
If you fly on Sunday the 28th, ticket prices were triple!
So I'm flying back on Saurday the 27th.
I'm going to do a little sight-seein' while I'm there.
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Last time I looked.
Ping! It's not an opinion on islam, just terrorists.
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God Bless this marine.
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