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 23rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Beth, this was an excellent post. I read it to Warren and he felt the same way. I totally agree with you. I am SO sick of listening to the criticism of our soldiers. I don’t think they should kill innocents just for the sake of killing but unless we walk in their shoes we do not know what they have to deal with every day. Maybe we should draft some of those ‘Hollywood’ folks and send them over to fight. Maybe they would sing a different tune!!
BTW, I have had people ask me stupid questions like your employee asked you. I just chalk it up to ignorance!
Love ya.
June 23rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
ABC News hides news that Black Muslims involved in…
Here we have the opposite of fake but accurate: True but inaccurate: ABC NEWS - Federal Agents Raid Suspected Terror Cell in Miami… The missing magic words are Black Muslims. The five “Americans” are BLACK MUSLIMS…
June 24th, 2006 at 10:54 am
My anger over what happened to these men is so great I cannot even begin to express it. My anger of the lack of coverage and outrage is equally great! It is beyond my wildest imaginings that people can do this sort of thing to any living creature, let alone another human being.
Your post is absolutely right on target. Our Military should not have to fight with one hand tied behind their back. They should be allowed to do their jobs and fight to win. The liberals did screw us up in Vietnam, and my husband, a retired Warrant Officer was in Vietnam while Kerry was back in the states moaning and groaning and being his usual obnoxious and cowardly self. I absolutely hate that man, and Murtha as well. I don’t like feeling hatred towards fellow Americans, but I no longer consider these people to be Americans. They disgust me; they are traitors and should be treated as such.
June 25th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
An update on Jihadi terrorism…
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June 28th, 2006 at 8:25 am
The mililtary has put itself in the unenviable position of needing to maintain it’s “standards” by finding their own people “guilty.” What if they are ALL innocent? It looks like the Haditha thing is fizzling, and when you look at the details of the Hamdania thing, those men too are innocent — the NCIS really screwed up, and the evidence will prove the simplicity of what really happened. And the four Airborne soldiers just charged, something’s fishy there too… Anything the military does now is fishy. And the Congress wants to have hearings — so they’ve decided that the Marines are guilty, and what is the Corps going to do to prevent it from happening again. And the President instead of standing up for our troops, that HE sent to war, he doesn’t say, I can’t comment like he does for Karl Rove, he says, If they’re guilty, they’ll be punished — not, they’re presumed innocent, but if they’re guilty! Disgraceful — if i was in the military i would get out as soon as possible, unless they started assigning a lawyer to every two service personnel. Don’t go to war without your lawyer!
Why should the NYT think we’re at war if the President doesn’t let the military fight like we’re at war!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Dawn Patrol…
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June 28th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Hey Beth! AMEN to your post!! You said exactly what I have been feeling! Why are we making excuses for these thugs? My husband is still recovering from critical injuries of an IED from April 19, 2005! These cowards work alongside our troops by day and plant roadside IEDs at night…and we can’t do a damn thing about it! When will America fight back? All this prosecution of our Marines makes me furious! Don’t call in the pit bulls if you don’t want someone to get bitten! Soldiers are not cops. I salute you for speaking up. I think the news every night should SHOW the mangled bodies of our killed and wounded. Folks in my home town have no CLUE as to our 18,000 wounded…and now the news wants to call them “injured” instead of wounded! I WATCHED the beheadings on Al-Jazeera. I remember the civilian contractors dragged through the streets and burned…then hung up for everyone to see…and the Iraqis cheering. I know how our two soldiers suffered. I know what our soldiers see everyday. When will AMERICA allow our troops to fight back? If they are not allowed to go in and fight, then we have no hope of a future for Iraq. Thanks for letting me vent my feelings. Janis
June 30th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Amen. I’m a Blue Star Dad of a Marine in Al-Anbar province right now.
I’m tired of apologizing for winning this war. Let’s finish this thing now and end it for our children’s sake. I’m not terribly concerned about the ACLU’s sensitivities - nor are our enemies.
Semper Fi.
July 2nd, 2006 at 2:26 pm
The Most Upsetting Thing I’ve Read…
Tears of RAGE were flowing, as I tried to tell my husband the gist of this post. I was literally shaking with anger and frustration over the message from this soldiers. “All of this was in response to me asking him some questions about what they are…
July 26th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Damn straight. Those libruls and commies have just about taken over this whole dang country, and now, in just the last six years, we’ve gone from sitting pretty to circling the drain hole of the toilet.
Uh, what’s that you say? Republicans control the White House, both chambers of the Legislature and the Supreme Court? Oh.
Well, we good neocons are firmly in control of the direction this country is headed in, and we’re not going to take it any more!
We’re tired of being allowed to mortgage the finances of future generations by cutting the taxes on the people who benefit the most from this country (that would be the rich) by one trillion dollars while the rest of us get some little $400 check that just dissappears in increased state taxes when the states have to take over the cost of road-building and educating our youngsters and all that stuff.
We’re tired of being told that it’s not OK to “dissappear” people–even our own citizens–and torture them at will once we’ve gone through the formality of labelling them a “terrorist”. That’s the sort of thing they do in third world despotic regimes. And if they do it, then by golly, so should we!
And we’re tired of being blamed for the problems in Iraq. They’re not our fault. They’re the fault of the Democrats who didn’t stop us from ignoring everyone else’s advice and warnings and and just going in understaffed and underprepared, and who are now saying things that encourage and comfort all three of the jihadists in Iraq who know what any Americans are saying about the situation and who give a hoot.
We’re also tired of those military top brass like Eric Shinseki meddling in how the war is to be fought. What do those Generals know about fighting a war, anyway?? George Dubya Bush has watched more than a few war films on TV, you know. And besides that, he’s never wrong about anything. He gets his information and orders from the Man Upstairs, you know. He’s a humble man. So all those uppity five star generals need learn some humility. They need to sit down, shut up, and start taking their orders from a man who knows what he’s doing.
Basically, we’re sick and tired of wrecking this country, and having nobody stop us from doing it!
And we’re going to go down in history not as the “Me Generation” (which is what we used to be called) but as the “Worst Generation”. This is because we are the exact opposites in every way from the “Greatest Generation”.
The “Greatest Generation” fought and won a *real* war called World War II. They did it by deploying 6.1 MILLION military personnel to go ensure that victory would be absolute and decisive.
They also built the Interstate Highway System along with much of the rest of the infrastructure of this country. They funded Social Security for their parents (even though their parents hadn’t paid anything into the system), vastly increased the education of the middle class through the GI bill, put a man on the moon, and basically built this country up to be by far the greatest country this world had ever seen.
Of course, all this required taxes that ran as high as 91% on the wealthiest Americans. You see, those old farts were into this old-fashioned concept called “sacrifice”, heh-heh. What a bunch of commies and libruls.
So what about us? To heck with good governance. We prefer “starving the beast”. So we’re busy looting the Social Security fund that our parents built up for fun and (private) profit (let the kids fend for themselves), we refuse to pay to keep a fresh coat of paint on the bridges our parents built from the groud up (too expensive), and when it comes time to fight a war, we send the minimum possible number of troops that will allow us to have a short, temporary, partial victory, some nice photo-ops, and then beat a hasty retreat as the country we just “regime changed” falls back into the hands of our enemies. But hey, it allows us to cut taxes, right?
The common good? The betterment of society? What’re you, some kind of librul? Me, I’ve got a 6,300-pound Hummer parked in my four-car gee-rage. That’s 6,300 reasons why we neocons have got it right and the Greatest Generation were just a bunch of suckers, duped by socialist dreamers into thinking about anybody other than good old Number One. And anyone who has an issue with that can just have a nice little conversation with my Glock 9mm, because you know–just like the people in most Arabic cultures–I have a fetish around guns and the idea of using them on people I disagree with.