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As depraved as the so called
"Terrorists"
By Dave Gurley
June 25, 2006
Sunday
Michael Reagan, perhap has
forgotten, but the people who most likely kidnapped and tortured
these proud, courageous and very patriotic U.S. Soldiers are
Iraqis who oppose the fact that America is brutally occupying
their country. There are stories daily about how American troops
are massacring innocent Iraqi women and children and then claiming
it was self defense. Are you saying that because our soldiers
eyes were gouged out and they were beheaded, that that is worse
than simply being shot in the back of the head, dumped in a hole
and having your executioners lay a shovel next to you claiming
that you were an insurgent? There are horrific acts being commited
on both sides.
The true rage shouldn't be that these Iraqis are defending their
homeland from American agression, but that our leaders totally
made stories up of mobile bio-weapons labs and stories of imminent
threats and stories that Iraqis were somehow involved in 9/11
to mislead the American people into supporting this horrific
war. Now that we know the original stories were all crapolla,
we should get the heck out of there and we should find who is
responsible for this horrible misadventure and we should hold
them accountable. To do any less would simply invite future
Administrations to commit the same crimes if not worse.
Lest we forget, our military is the greatest fighting machine
on earth. We weaken it by sending them into an unprovoked war
based on lies against an "enemy" who did absolutely
nothing to us. We weaken it even further when we ask those same
proud, courageous and patriotic soldiers to become an occupying
force in a hostile land even after we learn the war was based
on lies.
Dave Gurley
Chandler, AZ - USA
About: A proud and patriotic, but horribly outraged American
. I'm neither a Conservative nor a Liberal. I'm a registered
Independant.
Related Column:
A Time for Rage By Michael Reagan - The Biblical book of Ecclesiastes
tells us tells us there's a time for everything, including a
"time to love and a time to hate...a time for war and a
time for peace." - More...
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