Posted on 02/25/2008 6:56:48 AM PST by moderatewolverine
Safaa Wadi moved to this former mill city after his life was threatened in his native Iraq while serving as an interpreter for the U.S. Army. He expects to soon head back to Iraq — not as a civilian interpreter, but as a U.S. soldier.
Wadi arrived in the United States in September with a special immigrant visa for Iraqi and Afghan interpreters. But with his savings nearly depleted and unable to land a decent job, Wadi enlisted in the Army. He begins training in South Carolina on Monday.
Wadi isn't worried about returning to Iraq, where many of his countrymen considered him a traitor because he worked with American forces. His allegiance is now to the United States, he says.
"I want to serve this country because this country returned to me my life," Wadi said. "If I had stayed in Iraq, I'd be dead now."
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I’m guessing that the n00b doesn’t know who he’s talking to! lol.
LOL, that's not exactly synonomous with this thread. But even here you are a bit deceitful, the Brits, (Puritans, Pilgrims) began coming to the Colonies over 150 years before the Revolution, as seperatists running from British persecution. There were many native born Colonists of English ancestry living in America by the time of the Revolution, even 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation ones. Catholics began arriving to America in droves from England around 1732 when the Protestant persecution began forcing them to leave. So again, you had their children and grandchildren being native born into Colonial America. In any case, what they all shared together was the fact that they were all now from the same land, America, were being persecuted by England, and wanted to defeat the British Crown to form their own autonomous nation.
How you compare this situation with modern day Americans taking Islamists, (our enemy), into our military to fight alongside us is beyond me. Especially in light of the already numerous occurences where Muslims in our military have either murdered our own troops, deserted, or spied for the enemy.
I'll put that in the files with Huckleberry's public statement to the press: "I'm too good a man to use this attack add against my foe, so I'm not going to use it. But here, I'll let you folks taping this press conference for national television see it now".
I believe your arguments are indeed foolish, because you show a dangerously naive trust for the enemy. It is naivte like yours that will eventually help Islam, the Trojan Horse of our times, take us down. They are neither honest, trustworthy or a moral people. Already we have prosecuted a number of "highly trusted Islamists" in our military for treasonous activity, for killing our own troops, and for deserting. "Friendly, trustworthy" Iraqi Islamist "eye witnesses" have helped throw dozens of our brave warriors into the brigg, charged with murder and various 'war crimes'. Those men have had to fight for their lives to prove their innocense, all because of dupes such as yourself who believe these scum should be trusted.
But you can trust them all if you desire to, I'll continue to trust a Muslim for about as far as I can throw one.
No, but it sure as hell means that we are absolute fools for trusting any of them. As I've already said, just how many of these 'trusted' Islamists in our military are going to be found to be traitors, murderers, deserters and dangerous plants before we begin to see that trusting them in sensitive military positions is not in our best interests?
I appreciate your concerns on this matter. I may not agree with you in full, but I don’t dismiss any of it lightly.
Take care.
I suppose we'll just have to disagree. We have completely different perspectives. Yours is most likely mostly media-driven, whereas mine is just the opposite.
You clearly have no idea of how many Iraqis have ratted out the terrorists to our forces and by doing so have saved countless lives. Perhaps your glass is half empty and you look at the world through a jaudiced eye. I've never gotten on with people like that, so your insults don't surprise me, nor do they bother me.
My hope is that as a fellow Houstonian, our paths never cross.
Have a nice day.
LOL - I must confess to a fiendish enjoyment of toying with these types. ;-)
Yes, we both know how much the media are constantly carping against Muslims, /sarc
If you must know, my opinion is neither media driven nor "the opposite", (whatever that is). My opinion is based on knowledge of Islam, knowledge of history, knowledge of current events, and human reason. You can have your "friendly" Muslims, but my hope is that people like you won't be able to foist these devil worshippers on the rest of us.
"People like you..." What a tool you are, newbie.
People like me have been working alongside our military and with the Iraqi people for over four years. People like me might just know a thing or two about the Iraqis as opposed to people like you who form opinions based on "knowledge of current events" (translation: the media).
Thank goodness clueless people like you aren't calling the shots.
You have a lot to learn, newbie. As you're doing so, you might want to keep your ignorance to yourself.
Nice spin
Those were Iraqi terrorist supporters and friends of the insurgents.
And have been discredited no thanks to you and Murtha.
And believed by John Murtha (a traitor to this country) and a few other people, including you.
Do you believe the other Military hating statements of Murtha's also?
Those men have had to fight for their lives to prove their innocense(sic), all because of dupes such as yourself who believe these scum should be trusted.
I would venture to state that Allegra's ability to see who to trust or not trust is much more accurate than yours or Murthas.
Your naivety of discernment as to who is and isn't "Friendly, trustworthy" Iraqi Islamist "eye witnesses" is on par with Murtha's and other traitors of this country.
And you have the audacity to call others dupes???
>>The right kind of immigrant.<<
Well said. Now if we can only kick out the leecher immigrants who hate America or even the Americans who hate their own country.
Allegra is talking about the lack of media reporting on the good things happening in Iraq, including just what she said about Iraqis turning in the scum who are running around blowing up things and people and chopping their heads off.
She isn’t talking about a media that has bad things to say about Muslims. She knows better.
In fact, she knows, period, because of her long service in Iraq, “sweetie pie”.
WTF are you talking about, "me and Murtha"? I'm no democrat liberal bastard. Of course they were Iraq terrorist supporters and insurgents. All I'm saying is that those Iraqis who have recently allied themselves with the U.S. cause were slow to do so. It took years and thousands of U.S. deaths before their "turnaround". I happen to love my U.S. troops, and 100% support their mission, and 100% support them. They are in my daily prayers, and I donate monthly to wounded U.S. troops and their families who are in need of financial help. (If you care to do the same you judgemental ass, you can donate to the "Coalition To Support American Heros"). In any case, it was only after we finally began to stomp the Iraqis with our surge of troop strength and loosened the rules of engagement that we suddenly found so many Iraqi "allies".
You can take your "friendly" Moslem cultists and stick them where the sun don't shine. Islamists are nothing but trouble for the world. Whereever they congregate they fight, butcher, oppress, conquer, and hate. There is no region where they live that is not in constant chaos. No 'religion' that enslaves their women in burlap sacks, uses amputation to punish petty crimes, allows men to divorce their wives simply by saying "I divorce you" three times, and whose entire history is one of merciless bloody conquest is one that I will trust or choose to live alongside.
Knock off the personal attacks or your stay here will be short.
Sorry if I offended any one here. But to me, sir, the worst personal attack I could endure was being lumped with Jack Murtha, which is why I responded so angrily. I do tend to get a little 'riled' now and then, so again, my apologies.
That doesn't appear to be the post that was removed. It's the one where you called me a "she-male" among other things and didn't even have the courtesy to ping me on it. I never compared you to Murtha, but you slung personal attacks at me.
Just wanted to make sure you knew the real deal.
"Newbie"? Should I take that as a personal attack? "Ignorant"? I suppose that's not really a personal attack, just a little 'correction', eh Allegra?
Just two things here. One, I wasn't born the day I signed onto Free Republic, my education and experience did not begin here, nor will it end here. I've been around for 58 years previous to that, doing things like serving my country in Vietnam, getting married, raising children, earning two college degrees, (one in business, one in legal studies), owning and operating a business for 14 years, proudly welcoming my U.S. Marine son home from Iraq, being a grandfather, staying actively involved in politics and current events; you know, that sort of 'newbie' thing.
Two, I will remind you that this conversation never, ever was about anything other than my assertion that you cannot trust Islam and you cannot trust Muslims with your own country or your life, no matter how many, (or in the case of reality), how few have a temporary alliance with America. Knowing that there are always exceptions in this life, I stand by that statement, completely. We have purchased our shoddy Islamic alliance from Pakistan with dollars. Our 'alliance' with the Saudis is another shallow, shakey one, based entirely on economics. Neither the Saudis nor Turks, when push came to shove, would share their air space with us when the Iraq War began. Libya gives us their olive branch of peace only because Ghadafi fears for his worthless life. You may talk about some Iraqis who have come over to our side, and I can show you some American Muslims who have placed allegiance to 'allah' over the U.S. military and have deserted, murdered our own troops, spied and given top secret information to al Quaeda. Did not our Islamic 'allies' in Afghanistan riot, burn down buildings and kill at the mere report of a koran being tossed in a toilet at Gitmo?
Now, just to ease your mind, I won't go back to all the false and shameless things you've said about me on these posts and report you to a moderator, that's just juvenile to me. Big boys can take care of themselves. And real men know they weren't born the day they joined some club.
In the meantime, bear in mind that you started right off with the insults and they were unprovoked. You called me a "fool." Don't dish out what you can't take and don't start something you can't handle.
You have made your misogynistic feelings clear and I have no more to say to you. You're not the first male I've come across who is afraid of intelligent women.
You may converse with me after you've grown up. And I won't hold my breath.
Good day, now.
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