Mourn later. Carpet bomb now.

I hope the media, handwringing politicians and the soldier who ratted everyone out and started this whole ball of wax can be proud of the part they played in this man's death.

Maybe the reason the Pentagon was keeping this under wraps is because they knew what the ultimate fallout would be since politicians and reporters are incapable of keeping their traps shut.

Remeber these are also the people who stone women to death for adultery.  Wm. Sherman was right "War is Hell"

I saw it too in the UK (not live but on News channels) will there be an apology from any Iraqi now? or is that only for the west? I don't hear Amnesty International on the TV yet, their silence is deafining, how long will their inquest take for this? I do feel sorry for any persons family which has been brought into this war and i wish it was over but all these civil rights groups have been on uk tv all day sbout the prisoners abuses (which HL i don't condone) but now this story rolled out and silence from the same groups. The uk defence minister proved yesterday that the pictures where "probably fake"(take that what you will)and others which Amnesty reported on have already been dealt with 6 months ago

... If I could get close to the people who did this, I would kill them myself and never lose a night's sleep.  I say this as a man who has trouble with capital punishment as a judicial tool.

What happened is not part of the Iraq war.  The terrorists apparently did it.  It looks like the young man who was killed was some poor do-gooder in Iraq as a private citizen trying to help.  US troops arrested him and held him for close to two weeks and then released him in the middle of a combac zone and told him he should get out of Iraq. (I'm not blaming the troops).  

I would have great problems with "carpet bombing" as a method of dealing with this.  The man who read this statement and did the killing was, according to analysts, an uneducated citizen of Egypt or Siria.  Who do we bomb?  The solution sounds like the man with a very good hammer to whom every problem looks like a nail.

I think everybody loses when they treat others collectively:  e.g. this other group is evil -- therefore the normal rules don't apply.  That thinking prevades every conflict that lasts for a long time. I don't know how to fix it.  However, on a day to day basis, we have to deal with it to maintain the safety of citizens and the military.  

With no attempt to make a joke out of the thing, I keep thinking of my late father's admonition "Never wrestle with a pig.  Both of you will be covered in mud and the pig will like it.".

I cut this from Neal Boortz' website this morning. I agree with it completely.


"Compare the two cultures.  While America is investigating the abuse of Iraqi prisoners ... while America is preparing to punish those responsible ... while America is apologizing to the families of the prisoners and their countrymen for the actions of a few soldiers, and preparing to pay these families large sums of money .. while America is trying to do the right thing, Arab Muslims are slaughtering an innocent American civilian who's only crime was he was looking for a job trying to improve the Iraqi communications infrastructure.

This was a terrorist attack.  It was an attack by Islamic terrorists, only this time it took five men to kill one American.  One American civilian, or 3000 ... it's terrorism all the same.

Will this finally convince you that we are in the midst of a war?  It's a World War.  A war being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, on Manhattan Island and the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. It's a war being fought in former Soviet republics; a war is being fought on the island of Bali and in the Philippines. This is World War IV -- a war against fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists and terrorists.  These are the people we are fighting.  They are vicious relentless Muslim animals  who will not stop killing innocent Americans and who will not abandon their dream of a world dominated by Islam until they are utterly and completely destroyed.  These are people without a conscious who believe that the way to redeem their honor is to brutally slaughter innocent human beings, and this they do in the name of their god.

The question may be discomforting, but do these Islamic terrorist fanatics draw encouragement from the constant Democratic attacks on the president and the liberation of the people of Iraq from one of history's most brutal dictators?  How could they not?  How could these vicious Islamic bastards not draw comfort from Ted Kennedy's comparisons of Iraq with Vietnam?  These Islamic fanatics know they're at war.  They make no secret of their ambition and intention to destroy America.  Do you think they haven't studied our history?  How could they not know that America abandoned Vietnam to communist aggression when the going got particularly rough and when the tide of opinion in America turned against the war.  Do they not hear the comparison to Vietnam from a leading American politician as nothing less than a prelude to surrender or withdrawal ... a sign of American weakness?

This vicious murder of an American civilian should serve to reignite the American resolve to destroy, not to appease, but to destroy the Islamic Jihadists.  Now you should know that playing nice won't work.  While we try to bring to justice the people responsible for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, the Islamic fanatics cut the head off of an innocent American civilian in order to "redeem" their manhood.  They're not men, they're bugs ... and they need to be squashed.

The retaliation for this vicious act must be firm, it must be swift, and it must have a violent finality.  These inhuman Muslims must learn that these actions against Americans will not go unanswered ... and the answer will have a terrible finality."

RLTW

We Shall Avenge Nick Berg.