I went out into the dinning area at work today to chit-chat for a few minutes with my employees. It was the usual conversation for a minute or two and then one lady asked me how my son is doing.
I started replying, but before I could say much she got to what she apparently was wondering. She asked, ‘How does it make you feel to hear about what happened to those soldiers?’.
This particular woman isn’t known for her tact and the question didn’t particularly bother me, but it obviously bothered the others sitting at the table.
Another one of my employees chastised her for asking. She hushed her. I started saying it wasn’t a problem and they all started talking at once, chastising the woman who asked the question and changing the subject.
Before I knew it they were talking about a shoe sale and my head was spinning. I was again impressed with their ability to side-step subjects that make them uncomfortable. They are very good at it.
As we continued to talk about shoes I became increasingly aware of the lump in my throat and the rage in my heart.
That rage has been sitting there for a while and it leaped to the forefront a couple of days ago when I read what those animal muslim jihadists did to those American Soldiers.
I went to my office but couldn’t concentrate on anything having to do with work. I found myself thinking of those Soldiers and what they went through.
I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind.
It’s outrageous that the media and the liberals are strangely silent about it. I heard a lot about the guy in wherever that our Soldiers are accused of killing. I saw pictures of him and pictures of people wailing and carrying-on over his body.
There was a long segment on the network news about that tonight.
Let the American people see what is being done to our Soldiers.
President Bush needs to tell the American people what happened to those Soldiers. He needs to let the people know what we are fighting and quit white-washing the actions of our enemies.
Send a CLEAR MESSAGE to our enemies.
I also think of those boys being accused of murder, being threatened with a death sentence. I almost can’t bear to think of what they are going through.
I saw one of the president’s advisers on TV tonight saying something to the effect that we are more civilized than the enemy and therefore more is expected of us. He said putting our Soldiers on trial for murder will show the world that we hold them to a higher standard.
That’s all well and good, but lets not use these Soldiers to prove a point.
That’s not the message we need to send.
The unrest in this country is the intense anger the people are feeling.
We are tired of being blamed for everything that is wrong in the world.
We are tired of being at war and not fighting the war.
We are tired of our Soldiers being put in harms way with their hands tied and with instructions to be sensitive to the enemy.
We don’t WANT sensitive Soldiers! We want Soldiers who are good Soldiers.
We are tired of the core democratic leaders spinning everything using sophomoric debate tactics to shut up any opposition.
We are tired of hearing the liberals give sympathy to muslim jihadists while finding fault with America, Americans and American Soldiers.
We are tired of hearing about Israel bombing Palestine while Palestine gets a pass on the horrors they commit.
We are tired of being chastised for mohammad cartoons while Jesus in Urine is praised as an object d’art.
We are tired of communists and socialists judging everything we do and say and trying to overtake our country.
We are tired of hearing from celebrities who think their fame and wealth translates into a superior understanding of world politics and warfare.
We don’t want the President apologizing for talking tough!
WE WANT A TOUGH PRESIDENT. We want the President to maintain the tough posture he had in the aftermath of 9/11.
The President needs to speak up and send a very clear message to the world. Tell the world that we will not be passive victims. We will not tolerate the continued mistreatment of our Soldiers.
What was done to those boys was an act of war in itself.
We need to send a clear message to the world that we will not tolerate this and there will be a reckoning.
Unleash the dogs of war and let it be done.
When the mutilated bodies of Tucker and Menchaca were found, the Soldiers could not immediately recover their bodies. The bodies were set up as a trap.
They had been tortured. Their eyes had been gouged out, their tongues and penises cut off. They had been mutilated and finally beheaded. They were not recognizable. DNA test have been ordered to positively identify them.
They died a horrible death in defense of their country. Doesn’t this deserve more than one day of brief news coverage?
17 heads were found in fruit baskets in the same area as the remains of these Soldiers.
Doesn’t this tell us who our enemy is? I think that’s something we should know.


Ptc. Thomas L. Tucker (right) was 25 years old. Pfc. Kristian Menchaca (left) was 23 years old.
Army Specialist David J. Babineau was killed in the attack that resulted in the capture of Tucker and Menchaca.

The liberals says our Soldiers are monsters. They aren’t. They are normal Americans from normal American homes with normal American families.
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Send a clear message. We will not stand for this.
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Michelle Malkin says Speak Up, President Bush. So does Gateway Pundit.
Wordsmith has a wonderful article on the lost Soldiers at Flopping Aces.
Ankle Biting Pundits exposes more hate filled intolerance from the Party of Tolerance. Disgusting.
The Gay Patriot reports on another disgusting example of using these mens’ barbaric murders as political foder.
Allah supposes how the Greatest Generation would have responded to such a atrocity. He says there are indications our troops are starting to follow their example. GOOD!
others who are tired: 4 The Little Guy, Aggressive Tendencies, Partisan Times, Hyscience, Gateway Pundit, Pros & Cons, Mary Katherine Ham at Hugh Hewitt, Ninth State, Woman Honor Thyself, Stop the ACLU, Two-Headed Monster, A Female Soldier, The Right State
Open posts: Outside the Beltway, TMH’s Bacon Bits, Adams Blog, The Dumb Ox, Third World County, Assorted Babble of Suzie, Stop the ACLU , 123Beta, The Uncooperative Blogger, Basil’s Blog, Passionate America, Cao’s Blog

June 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 pm
SILIENCE IS DEAFENING…
Observations from vet Jeff Emanuel:
Privates First Class Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker were members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)Â’s “Strike†Brigade, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Both Menchaca and Tucker volunteered to b…
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:19 pm
YEAH!…
The blogosphere is full of Improper Reads….
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:42 am
I feel bad that these young men were sent to die for W and Cheney’s oil war - let’s be truly respectful of these brave young men and women and bring them home now. Send the Bush twins, Mary Cheney and the children of this lapdog Congress to fight in their place - at least they would be more deserving of this horrific unending horror show that is going on in the name of freedom and democracy.
Hate breeds hate. If you supporters of the war truly think these people hate us (and I know you do!) you may want to pick up a history book some time and try to figure out why they hate us, instead of lapping up whatever rhetoric the right wing pundits and administration spewing that day. Do you really think this started with 9/11? Do you really think 9/11 happened because they hate our freedom?
If we truly want peace and democracy to spread, you can’t do it by killing innocent civilians. Hate breeds hate. You hate me so I hate you, so you hate me so , I hate you…detect a pattern there? Break that cycle and this war will end - otherwise, well you may want to look into what the fastest growing religion in the world is…give you a hint: it’s not Christianity!
If you want to continue a pattern of hate, kill, hate, kill, etc. well, the numbers aren’t in our favour people. I guarantee that there will be two or three more extremists that pop up with each one you kill (his son, his daughter, his brother, sister, cousin). Hate breeds hate and when people are fighting on their own home turf, they have a particular brand of hate on their side that we just can’t match. You’re upset at what was done to our soldiers? Well, imagine that happening to your son or daughter in your own back yard? Nope, whatever hate you’re feeling - it doesn’t come close to that hate that comes with having foreigners kill your family on your own turf.
Let’s bring these brave young people home. Enough’s enough - let Bush and Cheney send their kids to fight this debacle. Too many of our poor and middle class kids are being offered up for cannon fodder in a war that cannot be won simply by trying to “shoot all the bad guys”. With each dead insurgent their hate grows and with each dead American, our hate grows - which is just what Bush wants. It’s also what Osama wants. They can both go to hell as far as I’m concerned.
Peace to all. (I know, I’m a left-wing, pinko faggot, but think about what I said anyway).
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:41 am
Unleashing The Dogs!…
Beth at Blue Star Chronicles unleashes the Dogs of War:I saw one of the president’s advisors on TV tonight saying something to the effect that we are more civilized than the enemy and therefore more is expected of us. He…
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:40 am
Cigar Envy Now In Nine Languages…
Another modification to the site makes each article available in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portugese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese in addition to English.
It is machine-translation, done on demand, but you can bookmark pages in your lan…
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 am
Send a Clear Message - Check out Blue Star Chronicles…
Check out Blue Star Chronicles for a post entitled: Send a Clear Message. I couldn’t write it nearly as well - and I agree with Beth 100%.  WHY is the news media not absolutely FILLED with indignation and anger over this?
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June 23rd, 2006 at 11:47 am
Miami Jihad! Sign of Things to Come? Dumb Ox New…
“Homegrown” terror cells? Fanatical Islam and Communism share a mental disease… news… more……
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Great post Beth, looks like you hit a sore spot with the usual assholes… Good, that means you are doing it the RIGHT way…
Awesome…
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
The same happened right after 9/11. They wanted the news channels and the papers to stop showing pictures and they certainly didn’t want the video of the people jumping to be aired. It’s what happened. It’s ugly, but it happened. Ignoring it doesn’t change it one bit. Yes, seeing it caused anger and pain, grief and rage, but those are normal, real human reactions to this attack on our homeland and it’s the normal human reaction to what happened to those two soldiers.
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Oh, and beth, my prayers are with you and your family and all our military!