Posted on 12/18/2011 12:55:23 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
As our involvement in Iraq has wound down, a few loose ends remained. The most important was the status of Ali Mussa Daqduq. Daqduq is a Hezbollah operative, apparently directed by Iran, who was responsible for the capture, torture and murder of five American servicemen. Under the status of forces agreement, he was to be turned over to Iraqi authorities, and could only be removed from that country with the permission of its government. A number of conservative activists and politicians campaigned to retain custody of Daqduq and bring him to Guantanamo Bay or another suitable venue for trial. A correspondent forwarded this email:
I know Captain Dan Fritz, Jake Fritz’s brother. He’s been to our house in Morgantown — in fact, one year to the day after Jake was abducted and murdered in Iraq. As our involvement in Iraq has wound down, a few loose ends remained. The most important was the status of Ali Mussa Daqduq. Daqduq is a Hezbollah operative, apparently directed by Iran, who was responsible for the capture, torture and murder of five American servicemen. Under the status of forces agreement, he was to be turned over to Iraqi authorities, and could only be removed from that country with the permission of its government. A number of conservative activists and politicians campaigned to retain custody of Daqduq and bring him to Guantanamo Bay or another suitable venue for trial. A correspondent forwarded this email:
I know Captain Dan Fritz, Jake Fritz’s brother. He’s been to our house in Morgantown — in fact, one year to the day after Jake was abducted and murdered in Iraq.
I know Noala Fritz, Jake’s mother, from Verdon, Nebraska. She is one of the most humble, down to earth, pleasant people you will ever meet. Jake’s father, Lyle, a Marine and Viet Nam vet, passed away in June of this year. Together, they raised one of the most patriotic, caring, and giving families in America.
I write you to seek your assistance in stopping this absolute lunacy and ultimate travesty of justice that is about to occur. Please, contact anybody and everybody you can, and enlist their support in stopping Daqduq’s release from happening. Use the power of the internet, social media, or whatever means available, and get people to speak up. Leverage what you can (political parties, TEA parties, prayer groups, etc.) to let our Congressmen and Senators in DC know of our interest to stop the release of this calculated, cold-blooded murderer.
The Fritz’s are a family that has seen more than its share of suffering, and is “all in” on the War on Terror. We owe it to them, and to Jake’s honor, to see that his killer faces justice.
Thank you for your engagement — there is little time to act.
All such pleas fell on deaf ears, and the Obama administration turned Daqduq over to the Iraqis, despite widespread predictions that they will send him to Iran, where he will receive a hero’s welcome and soon return to the fight. The Wall Street Journal reported:
U.S. officials have feared turning [Daqduq] over to Iraq would lead to his release without trial.
The Obama administration “sought and received assurances that he will be tried for his crimes,” a White House spokesman said. “We have worked this at the highest levels of the U.S. and Iraqi governments, and we continue to discuss with the Iraqis the best way to ensure that he faces justice.”
We will see. My guess is that Daqduq will be released and will be lavished with wealth and honors until we encounter him on a battlefield once again. My own view–call me a Neanderthal–is that things never should have gone this far. If Daqduq is who we think he is, and to my knowledge there is no dissent on that point, he should simply have been shot, long ago.
We’ve become too timid and PC to even fight a war.
We wouldn’t have won WWII with this attitude.
Right you are. We should do unto them as they would do to us.
Therefore, we should take his head and leave his bod behind. We could even bury his head at sea - from 30,000 ft or so.
They should have slit his throat and turned over his body. He would have been forgotten in a week.
I hope all those morons that voted for Barry Soetoro are happy, if he gets elected again this country will be in bigger crap. We just gave up the middle east.
Wrong
In WWII there was a clear mission and a clear enemy ....such things no longer exist.
If we were at war with all Muslims .....they would be dead.
We are at war with some Muslims and a lot of nuts....its a much harder war to fight
My nephew is still in Leavenworth.
It was the last war fought to win.
Dude, he was caputured in January 2007, 2 yrs before before Barry became POTUS.
That he lived 10 seconds longer than it took to squeeze all the intel out of that sack of crap is beyond me.
If we didn't figure out how to wack this guy and make it look like an accident in the past 4 years, then I don't think we have much to bitch about at this point in time.
The war is here. The enemy is in the White House. The battles must be fought and the war won.
Rio, you aren’t going to wack anyone with a muzzie in the WH. You just made me think of how Carter destroyed covert operations in the CIA when he was POTUS.
Bush had 2 years to wack the bastard before he left office.
No one on either side has the balls to do the job.
We need to outsource these types of issues to the likes of the Sopranos.
Now you’re talking.
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