Soldier's widow voices opinion on war

WMTV, News 8 ^ | May 6, 04 | Anya Huneke

[Howlin]

would like to imprison the likes of me for the crime of disagreeing with them.

Drama queen!

[DB]

It's about changing the Middle East.

The status quo is a failure.

We may well fail.

If we do, more than America will share in the pain.

[CWOJackson]

Amen. She was given that right through the sacrifice of people like her own husband. Even Churchillbuff has that right, paid for by the sacrifice of others.

Of course if this woman had said something positive about her husbands sacrifice, Churchillbuff wouldn't much care about her opinion or rights.

[Squantos]

True, well said........Ya'll Stay Safe .....I'm outta here !

[kcvl]

Hey there! Yes, those damn pesky facts get them every time. They just don't realize that we can find them when they lie.

[texasflower]

You are a little bit scary, aren't you?!! :)

[Boot Hill]

• "And please don't call this life-long Republican and four-time Reagan voter a 'liberal'."

Not to worry, "liberal" is definitely not the word I had in mind for you. FR policy forbids me from using the appropriate characterization here, but you can look it up, if you care to, in Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

--Boot Hill

[Fun Bob]

"I'm very proud of my husband, but I'm not proud of the reason he was there, and neither was he. A lot of people are not proud, but they have no choice. They can't say otherwise."

The military defends democracy. It doesn't practice it.

The media is just exploiting these grief stricken widows who understandably care more about their lost husbands then the rule of military law. But when you get down to it, in the military, you follow orders. End of story. Their husbands knew it. They are just having trouble coping with it. And their grief is being exploited by the antis.

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure waffles

[tessalu]

This woman should go back to Romania where they do what she likes.

[Clock King]

The Taliban were an evil I was aware of long before 9/11 and long before most Americans could even find Afghanistan on a map. I hold women in very high esteem. Higher than men. It just disgusts me that women seem to have lost so much common sense(?) as they have gained more freedom and access in our society.

[Clock King]

Women are the cradle in essence of humanity...

I firmly believe this.

[Clock King]

I don't know what side you're taking here. Now it sounds like you're agreeing with me.

Someday in the DISTANT future, we will draw on the strengths of male dominance, and female coalescence...

That's what I was saying in my last statement. Women are the ones who "civilize" and moderate us males. Neanderthal was a much maligned noble species. I DO NOT DISMISS females. I love them and respect them. Perhaps too much, which leads to disappointment.

[mtntop3]

Deaths in war are grievous to a family. The very thoughts that they might occur often become grievous and ultimately paralyzing to other families. And the result is often the death that was feared - and many, many more of them.

Before December 7, 1941, reports and photographs of war and dying in Europe and areas in Japan's reach were distasteful to Americans. Americans wanted nothing to do with war - they said it was "none of our business" what Hitler and the Japanese warlords were doing.

That refusal to stand up to murderous tyrants during the 1930's cost us - and the world - dearly. This was seen as weakness in the moral fibre of Americans. And that spurred Hitler and the Japanese on to more aggression - culminating in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

An estimated 55 million persons - correct - were killed in WWII, including many, many of the best U.S. men and women. There were serious questions in 1941 whether the U.S. and England would survive.

May the people of this nation remember this - even just a little - on May 29 when the WWII Memorial is dedicated in D.C.

[kittymyrib]

You must not know about the Syrians hiding the WMDs and shipping them to Jordan last month for an attack there. Make no mistake. There were WMDs, but Saddam had plenty of time to move them while the UN and the Democrats stalled the war.
As for this widow, she is not an American. She does not love this country enough to sacrifice someone she loves for it. She is not the kind of woman whom we thankfully had during World War II and whom we still have in patriotic parts of the US today.

[kcvl]

"they weren't involved in 9/11"


New evidence of Saddam link to 9-11: records indicate Atta meeting with Iraqi official in Prague


WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, May 7, 2004


New evidence about a meeting in Prague between September 11 plot leader Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence officer Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani has been uncovered, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service.

Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein has uncovered Czech government visa records indicating al-Ani was posted to the Iraqi embassy in Prague between March 1999 and April 21, 2001, and was involved in handling Iraqi agents.

A search of the Iraq Embassy in Prague after the fall of Baghdad to coalition forces revealed al-Ani had scheduled a meeting for April 8, 2001, with a Hamburg student, according to an appointment calendar obtained by Czech intelligence.

Al-Ani then was placed under surveillance as he met with a young Arab-speaking man in Prague April 8.

After seeing Atta's photograph after Sept. 11, the Czech counterintelligence watcher identified the man he had seen meeting al-Ani as Atta. Al-Ani was expelled from Prague within two weeks.

According to Epstein, al-Ani denied he met Atta and repeated the denial after being detained by U.S. forces in July.

The CIA has been unable to confirm the Prague meeting between al-Ani and Atta. If confirmed, the meeting would indicate a role by Saddam Hussein's intelligence service in some level of support for the Sept.11 plot.

The current official U.S. intelligence conclusion is that Saddam's regime was not involved in supporting the Sept. 11 attacks.

According to Epstein, Spanish intelligence has uncovered information indicating Algerians Khaled Madani and Moussa Laouar supplied Atta and another al-Qaida member, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, with false passports.

Epstein's information supports other journalists who have uncovered a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida, including Jayna Davis, author of "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing."

In her book, Davis suggests the September 11 attacks possibly could have been prevented if evidence of an Iraqi and al-Qaida link to the OKC bombing had been pursued.

Davis writes that in November 1997, Hussain Hashem Al-Hussaini – a former Iraqi Republican Guardsman whom multiple eyewitnesses identified as McVeigh's elusive accomplice, John Doe 2 – confided to his psychiatrist that he was anxious about his airport job because "if something were to happen there, I (Al-Hussaini) would be a suspect." At the time, Al-Hussaini was employed at Boston Logan International Airport, where two of the four 9-11 suicide hijackings originated.

She also reveals court records that suggest one of bombers Timothy McVeigh's and Terry Nichols's accused Middle Eastern handlers had foreknowledge of the 9-11 plot.

In addition, Davis discusses information she first uncovered eight years ago – that Nichols learned the macabre genius of terrorist bomb making under the training of Philippines-based al-Qaida explosives expert Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

[Moby Grape]

The media can always find the dumb-asses that don't understand or care...but only think of themselves.

These people get wide coverage, while those familes who have lost loved ones in Iraq that SUPPORT Bush get scant mention.

[ought-six]

"No WMDs. Many dead Americans. But no WMDs."

Ummm...Saddam Hussein himself was a weapon of mass destruction. However, he did have the more tangible kind, like chemicals and biologicals, and was sure looking into the nuclears: Even the U.N. and the appeaser nations admitted it; they just didn't agree on what to do about it. You are anti-war, but I wonder if you are selective in your bias? Did you loudly and soundly protest and oppose the Clinton misadventure in the Balkans? I wonder.

[ought-six]

"I take it from your response that none of your family think this war is important enough to volunteer for it. No wonder you have no problem with the body counts - none of your relatives are in harms way."

You did not direct this comment to me, specifically, but you did, generally. I will respond, and give you the wars my family served in: My father...WWII. My brother...Vietnam. Me...Vietnam. My cousin...Grenada. My nephew...currently in Army ROTC. I have no children. If I did, I would be proud if they served, as, I'm sure, would they. My family has never shirked its duty to America, even if the cause was "unpopular."

[ought-six]

The guy was wrong...dead wrong, to impune the honor and service of women. His comment that ALL women viewed the world and their reaction to it strictly through the lens of emotion is an insult. Now, if he would have said liberals instead of women, he would have been spot on!

[Cultural Jihad]

I think we should start calling people who are "anti-war" anti-freedom instead.

Well said.