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2007-07-01 Iraq

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Posted by Frank G 2007-07-01 09:40|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Anybody who thinks we can just walk away from Iraq needs to see this article. Children, infants, animals...these Al-Qaida psychopaths don't care in the slightest. Hell, they probably like it better when it is the truly innocent. I was dead in accord with the Iraqi policeman; I'd have found some way to kill that Al-Q bastard, preferably with my bare hands. When the rest of the Iraqis feel the same way, this war will be ended swiftly, and payback will be a fearsome sight.

Posted by Mac 2007-07-01 10:14|| 2007-07-01 10:14|| Front Page Top

#2 But do you suppose this important story will make it's way into the MSM? Does it fit with their agenda? The answer is probably "NO" to both of these questions.

The press has not been friendly to our efforts in Iraq. They must prefer the AQ way.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-01 10:51|| 2007-07-01 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Financing al Qaeda needs to bring Saudi Arabia some serious grief.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-01 10:58|| 2007-07-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Not just AQ, Zen, madrassas,, moskkks and their handpicked preachers, hate literature that they distribute there... add the politicos and colleges they cash-whore...

But yes, they'll get their comeuppance, sooner or later.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-01 11:04|| 2007-07-01 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Comparisons with Vietnam are correct. (Hue 1968)

Posted by Sherebmanper Scourge of the Platypi1150">Sherebmanper Scourge of the Platypi1150 2007-07-01 11:26|| 2007-07-01 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 You can compare this to Hue but Hue was more akin to Karbala - an ancient capital an cultural center. The massacre there was on a different order. The butchering of these villagers including the beheading of children certainly does parallel much of what happened in Vietnam. As for MSM coverage - they could try, but very few Americans would abide coverage of exhumed children heads. Most Americans would simply turn the channel to Law and Order reruns and blackhole the memories. WRT another Vietnam parallel, I'm glad the AQ operative was not summarily executed on camera. That didn't play well among the American populus.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-01 12:05|| 2007-07-01 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Word of things like this will pass around both the Iraqi and American troops very quickly. And soldiers of all kinds get very testy when they hear of such things.

I am reminded of how at the end of WWII, it was pretty much standard practice to hang General SS when they were captured. On the spot. MPs even carried rope around in their jeeps for just such a possibility.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-01 16:43|| 2007-07-01 16:43|| Front Page Top

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