Posted on 05/29/2006 4:46:05 PM PDT by Coop
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In the meantime, my column had been posted on a well-known right-wing American website, where it attracted 119 comments. Oddly, none of them displayed any hint of disquiet over the behaviour of the Marines under investigation. Rather, their outrage was reserved for John Murtha and yours truly.
One poster's reaction was to "nuke the Middle East" adding "thank you very much Dishonourable Rep. Jack Murtha". He was later to write "if you can't stand behind our troops, stand in front of them".
A few of his co-posters rushed to the website of Murtha's Republican challenger Diana Irey to donate campaign funds.
The fact that this murdering troop has the support of even those 119 posters is worrisome. Surely, nobody should defend the indefensible based on some false notion of patriotism.
Military personnel should act as ambassadors for their country and behave according to international rules of law and the Geneva Conventions that were drawn up as a result of atrocities committed during the Second World War. There should be a difference between real soldiers and ruthless thugs with public opinion the final arbiter.
If the public, as represented by the 119 posters on the Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, then not only is its members giving their country's soldiers a license to kill arbitrarily, they are altering the fundamental psyche of their nation.
To quote a well-known rationalist intellectual Felix Adler "Love of country is like love of women - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
The "Freepers" - as members of the Free Republic website have come to be known - may also like to contemplate the words of theologian Howard Thurman who said "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
In short, people who glorify soldiers who purposefully assassinate women and small children are as misguided as those who glorify the blowing up of crowded buses, trains and marketplaces.
Does the donning of a uniform render its wearer impervious to justice? The Nuremberg trials indicate not...
That is one heck of a claim to make. I'll make another.
The fact that this child-molesting author has the support of even 10 parents is worrisome. Surely, nobody should defend the indefensible based on some false notion of friendship.
Do you see the similarities Ms. Heard. You can say lots of fun things if you don't care to justify them. Here's another:
The communist supporting, America hating, Palestinian loving, terrorist empathizing author was unavailable for comment.
Oh, wait, that isn't made up!
Bumping this so we surpass the 119 posted comments.....btw Murtha is a POS....and if the author doesn't know what that means she can freepmail me....
Coop why am I not on this list?
Fix that please.
And that is why we must never let them win the Congress in this year elections, we must forget all our differences no matter how big they are and keep our majority in Congress. The alternative is unthinkable.
BUMPING the Thread to 119,000,000,000,000
"" Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, ""
Objective reporting, eh Mizz Heard??
super ping
There are way too many linda Hurd's around...they proliferate like flies on a dead skunk - in this case the corrupt and bloated Murtha.
I would, Coop, except that "mr." murtha (and similiar "persons") simply make me sick to my stomach!
I just can't handle much of it any more.
""Oddly, none of them displayed any hint of disquiet over the behaviour of the Marines under investigation. Rather, their outrage was reserved for John Murtha and yours truly. ""
Yeah, don't let an investigation get underway, just call em murderers. After all all Marines are murderers, eh, Mizz Heard??
Mizz Heard, you are a vile contemptable human being. Thank you for your opinion, based purely on hatred.
"A few of his co-posters rushed to the website of Murtha's Republican challenger Diana Irey to donate campaign funds."
Yep, you're right. I did go to Irey's site and donate money. Hell I even went to the Persian Gulf and donated some of my life back in 87-88, in order EARN the right to donate my f'in money to anyone I damn well please. Hell, I even did it to defend your right to spew your fetid Barbara Streisand in whatever Islamo-commie paper you "write" for.
As for Murtha, I think that if he had a shred of decency he would allow the very effective and objective military legal system to do its job prior to convicting these Marines in the court of public opinion.
Don't forget the Kerry paper!
I hope my comments were among those in 119 that you found especially disturbing. Trust me, the feeling is mutual.
The difference, of course, is that one of us is actually familiar with combat.
Well said, Coop!
And may God continue to bless you and yours!
Has this woman SEEN any solid evidence that these Marines were "murderous"? If she hasn't then she's accusing them falsely. If she's relying on the word of a few 'witnesses' in Haditha, and rejecting any testimony of the Marines, then she's a fool. I'm sure that the witnesses can be bought with simple threats against their families.
If the Marines had been under fire, they had every right to go after their attackers. If there attackers were hiding behind women and children, as they are wont to do, then the Marines didn't 'murder' them, they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It happens all the time in war, and even though our soldiers have gone out of their way, sometimes to the point of death, to keep from having to shoot through civilians to get to the terrorists, sometimes they can't NOT kill innocent bystanders. That is a FAR CRY from flying off the handle and murdering civilians because they simply are angry that they were attacked. I haven't seen any evidence that THAT is what they did.
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