Honor guard? What a load.
Speaking of Babies, Check out this story about The Freedom Fighters that Cindy and her Left Wing Friends (A.Sharpton, J.Jackson,T.Kennedy,H.Clinton) Support and Love.
Iraq Extremists 'Booby-trap Dead Child'
News Edition: 09/15/2005
A US Army commander claims that extremist fighters in northern Iraq committed atrocities against civilians, including beheadings, torture and the booby-trapping of a murdered child's body.
The accusations by Colonel HR McMaster, commander of the 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, included some of the most graphic and specific charges by an American military officer during the ongoing battle for control of Tal Afar, a city about 80 kilometres from the Syrian border that has been an insurgent stronghold.
"The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine - in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child's body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents; beheadings and so forth," McMaster said in an interview from Tal Afar with reporters at the Pentagon.
McMaster said Tal Afar is not yet under the control of the 5,000 Iraqi government forces and 3,500 to 3,800 US troops that have been fighting together there for the past two weeks. He predicted eventual victory but said it was impossible to know how long it would take before the Iraqis can control Tal Afar by themselves.
"Is Tal Afar secure? No, it's not secure," he said. "Is the enemy on the run in Tal Afar? Yes, the enemy's on the run. And we're going to conduct some follow-on operations in the next week or so to relentlessly pursue the enemy across the city."
McMaster repeatedly condemned the tactics of the insurgents, whom he called terrorists and extremists.
"Not only were they targeting civilians, brutally murdering them, torturing them, but they were also kidnapping the youth of the city and brainwashing them and trying to turn them into hate-filled murderers," he said.
His comments came two days after the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, purportedly accused American forces of using poison gas in the Tal Afar fighting, a charge that US officials have denied. The accusation was made in an audiotape posted on the internet on Sunday and attributed to al-Zarqawi.
McMaster alluded to that accusation and said he believed the insurgents had planned to detonate chemicals in a building in a residential area and then claim that US forces had employed poison gas against civilians.
"In one of these buildings the enemy had big barrels of chemicals that had explosives implanted in the chemicals, wires running around them. The whole house was rigged for demolition," he said.
When US troops went into the house, "immediately their eyes began burning, their throats began burning. So they withdrew out of the house immediately and then we conducted reconnaissance with some chemical protective gear, with a remote reconnaissance capability, into the house. And we could tell that the thing was rigged with chemicals."
McMaster also said US troops found manuals that described how to make "these kind of chemical dirty bombs and so forth."
Roadside 'memorials' give me the creeps. It seems kinda pagan to be posting memorials on the exact spot where somebody died in a car accident. Many are not maintained and get trashed by the weather. Just an eyesore after a while. My 2 cents.
You can't make this stuff up.
It's called "picking up litter" and it happens in lots of places.
Most likely the spirit of Casey and his fellow, fallen comrades didn't appreciate having their sacrifices and memories so grossly misused.
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Hasn't Sheehan herself been caught using phony Casey memorabilia before? Maybe the boots were "fake but accurate"?
Considering how vile the purpose of the "protestors," and how lame the effect, it is truly enjoyable to read this report. You are right. These people were devoid of honor, and demonstrably cynical as they scurried back to their house every night instead of keeping the vigil they pretended to care about. My guess is we will never hear about this again, because the truth is, even the skanks in the article don't really give a dam, now that the media has gone away.
Bush's fault
But even much much worse than that, his mother has now dishonored his memory and the values he proudly stood and died for PLUS his mother is lying to the American People.
Who cares. Camp Bat Boy is over, gone and not even very good "odd" history.
Real Honor Guards would have been on site, not at the CPH in the A/C...
I SWEAR I was nowhere near the place!
honor guard ?!?! my a88
What theft? They removed abandoned property that constituted an eyesore.
The Million Mom March in 2000 left a ton of materials on the National Mall for about two weeks if I remember correctly.
Who would leave a valuable unattended in the mioddle of nowhere?
Obviously it wasn't THAT valuable or the Cindynistas would have taken them with them at night.
This is not theft - it's garbage removal!
It's so obvious that after President Bush caused Hurricaine Katrina to flood the poor minorities of New Orleans he has devised a way to steal all roadside memorials.