Originally posted by 99blacksesport: ..... The worst part about this is how everyone has been making such a huge deal about posing some naked prisoners, while things like this go comparitively uncovered in the news. ....
It's all over the news. Top news item on Google news, CNN.com, BBC Online, etc.
Originally posted by 99blacksesport: .... I know you PC police will come after me for saying this, but just think about how better off the world would if somehow the entire region was turned into a giant glow in the dark parking lot. Sure there is conflict in other parts of the world, but nothing compares to what these people do to themselves, but more importantly U.S. citizins and soldiers on a daily basis. ....
You know they are saying they same about us, don't you ??
Quote: .... I'm tired of people putting the quality of life of people who were trying to kill us, ahead of an execution of someone who was rebuilding their country for them! .....
Illustrate your point with facts, please.
Originally posted by myfastse: Another thing that gets me is that these [censored] are too chicken [censored] to catch a military guy and perform these acts. They catch a contractor try to rebuild their country and take his life. I hope that we [censored] their world up.
AFAIK, they HAVE a US soldier as a hostage. A soldier went missing in the same incident where Tom Hammill was taken hostage.
Originally posted by jshimer23: now i didn't go reading all of the posts because this subject is a little hard to handle right now. but i knew Nick. He graduated high school in my brother's class and went to the same university as my brother also. he grew up in West Chester and a lot of people are hurting in our community. now more then ever i question why the hell we are over there. god bless those who are risking their lives for whatever the true reason we are over there for. i sure as hell wouldn't have such conviction. Nick was a good guy and will be sorely missed.
I'm sorry to hear that this has hit you personally.
Originally posted by JaTo: The day the US lumps all Muslims into one pile for execution, Al-Qaeda and every other Muslim extremist group in existance has won the war. .........
We are an extraordinarily powerful country, but don't think for a minute that we are an "immortal" country or that the rest of the world would line up and stand silent on such a display of ignorance. .....
Don't let the media suck you into believing that all Muslims have a knife waiting for a Western neck.
I think it's too late on the last point.
Originally posted by Onepurpose: I never said that all Muslims were bomb toting or had a knife all the time, but its like picking out a needle in a hay stack with these guys. Unlike over here where its very apparent what type of social group you hold to, over there its almost impossible to pull out someone from a crowd and say they are an extremist .....
And to THEM, WE are all just fat, ignorant, decadent, immoral, materialistic SOB's ..... Get my point ?
Originally posted by 99blacksesport: ...... How many Americans were beaten, tortured, burned alive, strung out on bridges, decapitated, the list goes on of the atrocities done to us. I ask, where is the outrage over that?!?! Sadly, there is almost none compared to the outrage over what mostly was no more than fraternity hazing of the prisoners! .....
There has been outrage over the deaths of Americans in Fallujah (read my previous thread on this) but this is not a game to see who is more outraged over what incident. And stop linking the death of Nick Berg to the prisoner issue. Stop doing the terrorists work for them. Regardless of what was said in the video, they are not linked. The prisoner issue is just an excuse. This poor bastard was going to be killed one way or the other.
Originally posted by DrGonzo:....... I found it odd that the same weekend that the story broke, and CBS broadcast the graphic photos, that I could not find ANY photos or video in the American media of the murder of a pregnant Jewish woman and her four children by Palastinian terrorists. A witness described that her car was shot up until she stopped, the gunmen approached, shot each of children in the head, then shot the pregnant woman IN THE BELLY, then shot her in the head.
I find that more repulsive than the prison abuse. I would like to see equal coverage. ..........
Yes, that is more repulsive. Yes, I would like to see fair and balanced reporting of news items. You will never see it from the mainstream media though.
Bless our servicemen & women overseas.
L.Cpl Ian Malone, 1st Battalion Irish Guards, R.I.P.
