The pattern, as I said yesterday, continues:
Interestingly silent on this and other atrocities carried out by the insurgents in Iraq are the “human rights” groups who seem to spend every day accusing the United States of torture, war crimes, and various human rights violations. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called the Iraq war “illegal,” and John Pace, former UN chief of Human Rights for Iraq, has said that human rights conditions are “as bad now as they were under Saddam,” but was it America that filled mass graves with hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqi civilians? Last month, Human Rights Watch again accused the US of “brutalizing Muslim suspects in the name of the war on terror,” but how many times have Americans strapped bombs to their own chests and purposely detonated themselves in a large crowd of civilians? Amnesty International’s website highlights America’s use of “torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” against terrorist captives, but how many prisoners—Muslim or otherwise—have Americans brutally beheaded?
This isn’t news to those of us who’ve monitored the Left’s response, which ranges from deafening silence to actual support of terrorism, but all we can do is call them on it.
Chris at Home points to the bigotry of low expectations:
It is the bigotry of low expectations: terrorists kill innocent people, so it is not news. American troops rarely kill innocent people, so that is news. Combine that with the usual internationalist path of least resistance (terrorists don’t listen to Amnesty International, the US does; therefore Amnesty accuses the US of torture, mistreatment and atrocities while ignoring real torture and atrocities by terrorists) and you get the current media reporting.
But then we still have this:
The First United Methodist Church of Tacoma has declared itself a sanctuary for servicemen and servicewomen who also don’t want to go to Iraq to rape, torture, and murder innocent men, women, and children on orders from this terrorist fascist regime.
Townhall Tip: Michelle Malkin
I wonder if Congressman Mark Kennedy (R-Minnesota) read Blogs of War this morning?:
Congressman Mark Kennedy (R-Minnesota) made this statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives today, following the torture and brutal killing of two American soldiers in Iraq.“Mr. Speaker, where is the outrage? We hear stories today of two of our soldiers having suffered unspeakable torture, and left in a nearly-unrecognizable condition. Yet where are the cries of outrage against this brutality?
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June 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
As a retired Army Master Sergeant, I have just a few comments. The first: AMEN!! The second: When you find and kill these terrorists/murderers, make sure they are covered with pig blood and entrails. (If you don’t know what that means, look up the Phillipines circa 1910s and General Black Jack Pershing!) Then if the bleeding heart liberals and media scream, tell them “You’re next”.
Bottom line: War is Hell. Make the other guy believe it. (Where the Hell is a General now like Pershing or Patton??)
June 21st, 2006 at 5:22 pm
The outrage ended in my case several years ago when the six US contractors bodies were dragged out and and displayed on a bridge in Bahgdad by the Muslim cleric Sadr’s brigade and our government promised to get the perps and kill them. INSTEAD……Al Sadr lives, tolerated, even supported by our forces?
Where’s the outrage?
June 21st, 2006 at 8:59 pm
That level of barbarity is also practised by both Shiite and Sunni militias, and these are the guys we’re supporting!
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:55 am
Reaction to the Torturing of Our Soldiers
(H/T Expose the Left)
This morning on Fox News, E.D. Hill eloquently expressed her outrage at the terrorists who abducted, tortured, and killed our soldiers this week. The video is an absolute must see; I have nothing to add.
Bill O’Reilly had a…
June 24th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Americans Need to be Outraged
Two American Soldiers were brutally tortured, and murdered. Where’s the Outrage? Here, and here, for starters. ( Bless you BOTH!! ) Oh, and here, too! ;-D ( Morning- 6/22- PLEASE see the end of this essay for an IMPORTANT update
June 26th, 2006 at 2:02 am
Will white hot anger do???
July 7th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Why the hell are you in Iraq in the first place, fucking bastards, you kill innocent people and now you the good guys, I beleive in GOD and for me most of the soldiers are going to meet him and answer for their involvement, may they burn in hell for eternity.
July 11th, 2006 at 2:03 am
John,
You are morally confused if you believe these soldiers deserve this deplorable treatment. Your comments are childish and completely ignorant. In addition, they are rather hateful and void of any meaningful substance. I must ask, what are you trying to prove by posting such hurtful and pointless commentary? You have nothing of value to contribute other than incendiary, hate and utter nonsense.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than him. (John Stuart Mills)
I hope the God you believe in has mercy and will help you overcome the anger that has taken over your ability to be a decent human being.
Your behavior is pathetic, illogical, full of hate, and immature at best.
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:24 pm
History has repeatedly told us that the US Army is not that good. The Germans creamed us at the Rhine in WWII. It took the Red Army to defeat Hitler.
Vietnam should have been a cake walk but again they beat us. The US should stick to picking on countries like Panama and Greneda. The Soviets found out the hard way in Afghanistan that brown eyed and brown skin soldiers don’t fight very well. Russia now doesn’t have those mud people in their army.
The USA will be split up because we are going broke. Texas and California are over runned by Mexicans and as a result our armed forces have too many of these mud race people in it. They don’t fight like the Germans or the Russians or for that matter the Bathists of Iraq.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Big deal!!!. Americans goes to poor 3rd world country, hangs their president, rapes their daughters, totures their boys, robs their wealth, and murders hundreds of thousends innocent people, and you people OUTRAGED by just 3000 thousend deaths???. I think this is fair price to pay for all the OIL your government is stealing!!!. If all this bullshit is making you angry, be angry at your government!. I’m not a muslim or middle eastern. But if anybody comes to my HOME, and kills my family, i will pick up a weapon and try to get my revenge. The TRUTH is anybody will. So don’t be so EXTRIMISTS yourselves, and blindly hate people. You will only create more enemies to your kids. Iraq people didn’t attack the Twin towers, Al-Qaida did!. PS: Just 250 years ago Americans were the Terrorists, and hunted by the British. Forgot your history?, then you are a MONKEY!.