Alone but for the screams of the tortured

The Times ^ | April 3, 2003 | Stephen Farrell

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Sure, Ivan, they'll tell you.

You see, in their twisted minds, this isn't about a sadistic, monstrous, third world tyrant who brutalizes millions of his own people (and has killed just as many).

This is only about a right-wing, conservative, President who is exercising American military might.

And that scares the troglydites in the little third world, socialist, pissant states. They get scared when America exercises its power. Their psuedo-intellectual intelligentsia that slut around in their little jet-set, capaccino-clatch, high-society hate that there's a strong, conservative, President in America that they can't reign in and constrain.

F- 'em all. I wish we had the army, and the b@lls, to take on half the world, right now.

I don't care if I ever travel outside this country again. P!ss on all of 'em.

There will be a reckoning when this is done. Between us and a lot of these maggot-infested, third world, hell holes. And that settling of accounts can't come too soon for me.

I never thought I would harbor such hatred for the world, but right now, about half the planet is on my sh!t list and I wouldn't lift a finger to help any of 'em - if they were drowning in half an inch of water, I wouldn't be kind enough to kick them over.

My venom is endless, right now, for the majority of this world. GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

[FITZ]

mainly Shia Muslims, have been put to death.

And yet so many of the Muslim countries ---including the Shias are taking Saddam's side in this and hate the US for taking down this dictatorship. They should be ashamed.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Bump!

[norcalvet]

If these are the same people I saw on Fox News earlier, a man described as Danish wearing a pink shirt responded to a question about how they were treated, saying they were OK but there were many others in the prison that were far worse. I wish I could remember the exact wording, because it was very ominous. He had an expression on his face of fatigue, relief, and when he made this statement, a chilling look that clearly indicated he had seen something very traumatic for him. Very humbled for a journalist I would say.

[mwl1]

Exactly. They are lousy journalists, or despicably silent on who their captors were. They knew damn well it wasn't coalition forces but just couldn't bring themselves to utter the truth and the basic facts of who was holding them prisoner and torturing their own people.

God this is why I despise journalists.

[sweetliberty]

Another chink in the liberal media's armor. Good job Ivan.

[oyez]

bfl

[sweetliberty]

"Anybody care to ask Al what he thinks of this and how he would have handled the post-9/11 Iraq situation??"

[MeekOneGOP]

Alone but for the screams of the tortured

Excerpt:

“WE KILL, we kill,” muttered the Iraqi driver of the pick-up truck speeding through the night-time streets of Baghdad bringing his helpless cargo of handcuffed Western journalists to Saddam Hussein’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

Thus began the first of eight days in Iraqi captivity for Matt McAllester, a British foreign correspondent, the photographers Moises Saman, Molly Bingham and Johan Spanner, and a peace activist, Philip Latasha, who were seized without warning or explanation from their rooms in the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad while covering the war on Iraq.

During the week in which neither families nor friends had any idea of their whereabouts, the terrified quintet sat in adjacent, bare-concrete cells forbidden to talk to each other, their solitude punctuated by the screams of Iraqi prisoners being led away to torture from the cells around them, the thud of anti-aircraft fire and the pounding of US bombs that were exploding uncomfortably close.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[sweetliberty]

"And yet so many of the Muslim countries"

Well, we know what is motivating THEM, but what about France and Germany and Mexico and other non-Muslim countries? I think when accounts start getting settled after this Iraq finale, some of these countrys' leaders will have some explaining to do. I really don't believe that a pacifistic ideal has a whole lot to do with it. I think it is more likely what they're afraid we'll discover about their dealings with Saddam.

[k2blader]

Bump!

[BlessedByLiberty]

Is this Molly Bingham the same female reporter who had been held captive either in Iraq or another Mid-East country not long ago? I thought she was English.

[Doomonyou]

They have a support network of 100,000 working their way toward Baghdad right now.

That will make quite a picture when our boy's free those poor bastard's from Saddam's hell holes.

[Leto]

“I have no idea who was doing it, whether it was the interrogators or the prison guards, but we saw a lot of people inside that prison who had been in there a lot longer than we were and who didn’t have the support network to get them out.”

Well once again a liberal is wrong. There is a support network coming to get these poor souls out. It's called the British, and American Military.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Now, I could go out and buy pretty much anything that I took a fancy to. But why on earth would anyone pay a hundred dollars for a (dress?)shirt?

Magic? Bulletproof?

[VOA]

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[GrandMoM]

Anybody care to ask Al what he thinks of this and how he would have handled the post-9/11 Iraq situation??....you know, that was one of my first thoughts after 9/11. What would happen to us if Cry Baby Gore were president instead of George Bush. What a frightening thought that was.

[xm177e2]

As much as I like to make fun of the human shields, it would be very, very sad if any of them ended up in Abu Ghraib.

It would be ironic in a very sick way, too: they would be taking up space in Abu Ghraib that therefore could not go to an Iraqi dissident--they would be acting as human shields for the Iraqi people, protecting some of them from Saddam. Taking up the suffering of others is Christlike in a way.

[Domestic Church]

She's from a prominent American midwestern family.

[xm177e2]

F- 'em all. I wish we had the army, and the b@lls, to take on half the world, right now.

Bush is fighting that war, but he's doing it one country at a time. And winning in Iraq will help us to win in other places later.