[Michael Dill]

Letter Of Apology
Author unknown - sentiment shared.
For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day My Lai massacre.
I heard some Arabs are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).
I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.
I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Arabs.
I am sorry that Arabs have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships. I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth. I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools.
I am sorry that Yasir Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high-jacked the Palestinian "cause." I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA.
I am sorry that our own left wing elite and our media can't understand any of this.

I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death. I am sorry that those same bombers are seeking 72 virgins. I guess they can't find even one virgin here on Earth.
I am sorry that the homicide bombers think babies are a legitimate target.
I am sorry that our troops died to free more Arabs.

I am sorry they stopped the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves with dissidents.
I am sorry they show so much restraint when their brothers in arms are killed.

I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.

I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy Site." I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, etc.
I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium-sized village in africa.
America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for all the world to see. We move on. That's one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.
Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, and said, "so what?" We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong. Sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated? Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujans.
If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a long wait. You have a better chance of finding those 72 virgins.

 

[fletch2000]

ns

AMEN! Saw that on "the other board" but it's a good read. This thread may go south fast!

 

[MikTheKnife]

Michael,

Though my leanings tend to be a little less right than most of the board members, I like this a lot.

MIK

P.S. how is the boat coming?

 

[Blue Water Ho]

Im sorry I wont be around to see where this post goes. But HELL YA thats how it is right there brother.........................................later,Dave

 

[Belt Sanders]

And what about the beheadings? Brought to you by "The Religion of Peace".
And why arent they policing their own?
Because they are the "The Religion of Peace".
Rat b*$t*rds.

 

[fishomaniac]

Thought-provoking post. I think Rush Limbaugh could feed a village too, but the drugs would probaly kill them.

 

[timbo]

This is the actual story of the 72 virgins waiting for them in heaven

Osama in Heaven

After his death, Osama bin Laden went to heaven.

There he was greeted by George Washington, who proceeded to slap him across the face and yell at him, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!"

Patrick Henry approached and punched Osama in the nose and shouted," You wanted to end our liberties, but you failed."

James Madison entered, kicked Osama in the groin and said,"This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"

Thomas Jefferson came in and proceeded to beat Osama many times with a long cane and said, "It was evil men like you that provided me the inspiration to pen the Declaration of Independence!"

These beatings and thrashings continued as John Rudolph, James Monroe and 66 other early Americans came in and unleashed their anger on the Muslim terrorist leader.

As Osama lay bleeding and writhing in unbearable pain an Angel appeared. Bin Laden wept in pain and said to the Angel, "This is not what you promised me."

The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you in heaven. What did you think I said?"

He should be thankful it ain't 72 Texans waitin' for 'im

 

[fletch2000]

Way 2cool...

Timbo thats great, 72 Virginians LOL :brew2:

 

[Capt. Bly]

Thanks Michael

That was great. After watching all the foolishness on the news, we need to read reflections like that.

Thanks to you too Timbo. I'm copying both pieces for my files.

 

[Snagged]

Zarqawi targets female soldiers

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040701-122456-6466r.htm

Zarqawi targets female soldiers

By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Terrorists in the Abu Musab Zarqawi network in Iraq are specifically trying to kidnap an American female service member to further horrify the U.S. public.

Two senior defense sources said the word is being passed within the network on the importance of taking one or more women hostage.

"We have heard through intelligence channels that several extremist organizations are attempting to capture coalition servicemen and women," said a senior military officer in Iraq.
"We have instituted additional force protection methods to thwart these attempts."

Another defense source said there is an "edict, either on paper or as an order," within terrorist networks to capture an American female service member.

Of the 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, about 11,000 are women. They perform a variety of jobs, serving as drivers, medics, aviators, police and clerks. By law, they are banned from land combat, but they can still come into close contact with the enemy.

Zarqawi is the most wanted man in Iraq, with a $10 million U.S. reward for his capture or death. The Jordanian-born international terrorist has made killing Americans and their allies his chief goal as a way to prevent Iraq from moving to a moderate democratic state.

He beheaded American Nicholas Berg, and his network released the video for the world to see.

Militants are holding an Army soldier and a Marine, and have kidnapped many aid workers and contractors from coalition countries. Some have been killed.

The defense source said Zarqawi's network apparently wants to further shock the Western world by kidnapping servicewomen and displaying them on videotape. Part of the terrorists' strategy is to cause so much bloodshed that President Bush loses public support for the war and is forced politically to bring the troops home.

The source also said that the terrorists might be planning "payback" for a U.S. female soldier seen taking part in the abuse of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

The Arab world has seen a series of photos of the abuse, including Army Pfc. Lynndie England holding an Iraqi inmate by a leash attached to his neck. The Army has filed criminal charges against her.

The U.S. military is taking extra precautions to ensure that no more Americans are taken hostage.

Convoys move from base to base with heavy security. Soldiers on patrol stay in regular contact with headquarters.

During the war to topple Saddam Hussein, Iraqis ambushed the 507th Maintenance Company and took three female soldiers prisoner. Pfcs. Shoshana Johnson and Jessica Lynch were rescued. Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa died in captivity.

During the 1991 Persian Gulf war, Maj. Rhonda Cornum, a flight surgeon, was captured by Iraqis after her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down while on a rescue mission. Maj. Cornum, who suffered broken bones, was held eight days and sexually abused by her captors.

 

[Aunt Joyce]

I'm not sure if this is the time or place ....

but I would very much like to post an editorial here by an excellent reporter I have read for many years. I'll post it without comment:

Posted on Mon, Jun. 28, 2004 Miami Herald

LEONARD PITTS JR./COMMENTARY
For or against war, we've all had enough

"Enough", it said. "No more!"

That was the subject line. When I opened the e-mail, I found myself gazing upon a severed head held aloft by an anonymous hand.

I had intended to spare myself such images. Viewing them felt too much like submitting to terrorist manipulation. But I should have known better. Technology being what it is, you don't have to seek stuff out. It finds you.

''Enough, no more!'' The exclamation point was an attempt to add emphatic force, like a fist slamming into an open palm. Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

But who among us doesn't feel that way by now? From the most ardent opponent to the most hardened supporter of George Bush's war, who could not make that same cry? Bombings, assassinations and now this. Videotaped decapitations become -- you hate to trivialize it with this word, but no other fits -- a fad among Islamic terrorists seeking to impress us with their raw brutality, their abject . . . otherness. Against which, cries of outrage or even defiance take on a faded air and a sense of impotence.

Enough, no more? Yeah, right. Meaning what, exactly? Will a battle cry give the president pause? Will an exclamation point make the terrorists reconsider?

And could either do so if they wanted? It seems unlikely.

OUT OF CONTROL

By this point, these events move with a heedless momentum all their own, a runaway truck rolling downhill. And you sense that nobody, not the true believers in the White House, not the soldiers in the field, not the people in the sanctity of their homes, knows what to do. Or what comes next.

Meantime, that truck keeps plowing down the highway, smashing through roadblocks that once seemed inviolable.

``Americans do not attack nations that have not attacked us.''

Smash!

``American soldiers do not abuse prisoners.''

Smash!

``America would never consider using torture in its interrogations.''

Smash!

``You can choose not to see a decapitation murder.''

Smash!

INNOCENCE LOST

I said it the day we invaded Iraq, I say it again today. The nation we used to be is gone, ended with the first bomb lobbed across the border. We are not as idealistic as we were, we are not as innocent, we are not as young.

And who knows when we'll find our way back to what we used to be? Or forward to whatever it is we will become? For now, we are simply stuck in this ugly passage where people die grotesquely, our values are under siege and nothing feels certain anymore.

``Are you shocked?''

That was the first line of the e-mail.

And you know something? I wasn't shocked. Looking at that gory picture, I was only sad, only filled with a fatigue older than oceans. I felt brutalized, profoundly soiled, as if someone had splattered mud on my very soul. And it occurs to me there's probably a lot of that going around. I mean, you have to be pretty brutalized yourself, pretty soiled, pretty alienated from your own humanity, to send a picture like this out to a stranger in hopes of publicizing your discontent about the war. And, by the way, the fact that you have a radio show.

A CRY, PERIOD

“Enough, no more!''

It works as a cry of defiance against the terrorists, works as a cry of opposition to the war. But the more I ponder it, the more I hear it as a cry, period.

''Enough, no more.'' Isn't that what you say when someone's been hitting you and you just want them to stop? When they keep hitting and you don't know how much more you can take?

That's certainly how I felt when I opened that e-mail. I felt as if evil had been hitting me for a very long time.

So enough, no more.

And Lord, have mercy on us all.
******************

I said I wouldn't comment but I MUST say at this moment "thank God for what you see here .....

 

[Reel_Blessed II]

Here! Here!

Daisy Cutters for all terrorist!!!

 

[Sow Trout]

Fishomaniac

You are a strange duck.

 

[Snagged]

AJ,
Some "people" will never learn that there is a limit as to how much abuse decent people will take until they get mad and get even.
Getting "even" is part of human nature and some parts of the animal world, the liberals of the world will always hide from reality and assume things will go away.