John Gaquin wrote:

Where did all the posts go??? A week ago we had all the usual suspects
ranting on about how base and despicable the President, the government, the
Nation, and most of the people are because seven American soldiers depanted
some Iraqis and photographed them.


Maybe everyone agrees. One thing is certain...more details of the
tortures are coming to light and more than seven soldiers were involved.
Oh...and the soldiers did a tad more than pull frat hazing pranks on
prisoners.


Now we've got naught but a few desultory comments about the hacking off of
Nick Berg's head on camera. For those who needed the reminder, the masked
marvels on tape have shown our country exactly the type of people we are
fighting. [I can't think of any group in history who felt the need to hide
their faces and still enjoyed any ethical regard from civilized nations.]

There are many ways to hide one's face when one is killing civilians.
One is to drop cluster bombs from a mile up in sky where no one can see
your face. No need for a hood, eh? Oh...I know...if any of those bombs
killed innocent civilians, well, we're sorry.



Where's the fury? All the anti-Bush folk were choking on righteous
indignation at the humiliation of a few terrorists, but sound not a burp at
the animalistic slaughter of an unconnected civilian US citizen. Then Harry
comes up with that sophomoric drivel that it really isn't that bad because
you still wind up dead.


Yet another attempt to take my simple expository writing and turn it
into something I did not says. What I said was that from the point of
view of the victim, the result was the same...death. We have a long
history in THIS country ov violently killing people we don't like, and
that is true from the federal government on down to lynching parties. In
fact, a few years ago, some asswipe governor of Texas was making jokes
about the last pleading moments of a woman he allowed to be executed.



What the hell is wrong with you people? Like the
medieval barbarians on the videotape, you have now shown your true colors
for all to see. Worthless garbage, every one.


And, don't forget, a direct result of Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld policies in
Iraq. It is foolish to think that those with an entirely different
culture will respond the way Christian America does, by simply bombing
from above and lobbing in shells from tanks.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, eh?