Posted on 11/19/2004 10:17:51 AM PST by RtWngr
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I feel pride for the author and even more pride for the stories she told in those short sentences.
God bless each and every one of them and may they know that I thank them from the bottom my heart for serving our country
Quote of the week, from the Wall Street Journal:
"Some 40 Marines have just lost their lives cleaning out one of the world's worst terror dens, in Fallujah, yet all the world wants to talk about is the NBC videotape of a Marine shooting a prostrate Iraqi inside a mosque.
The al-Zarqawi TV network, also known as Al-Jazeera, has broadcast the tape to the Arab world, and U.S. media have also played it up. The point seems to be to conjure up images again of Abu Ghraib, further maligning the American purpose in Iraq. Never mind that the pictures don't come close to telling us about the context of the incident, much less what was on the mind of the soldier after days of combat.
Put yourself in that Marine's boots. He and his mates have had to endure some of the toughest infantry duty imaginable, house-to-house urban fighting against an enemy that neither wears a uniform nor obeys any normal rules of war.
When not disemboweling Iraqi women, these killers hide in mosques and hospitals, booby-trap dead bodies, and open fire as they pretend to surrender. Their snipers kill U.S. soldiers out of nowhere. According to one account, the Marine in the videotape had seen a member of his unit killed by another insurgent pretending to be dead. Who from the safety of his Manhattan sofa has standing to judge what that Marine did in that mosque?"
--The Wall Street Journal
Truer words were never spoken, Grassontop. You put it beautifully! *~*
Do you have a link for that WSJ article?
H2
>"Do you have a link for that WSJ article?"<
- I read it here, in the article: "Damned If They Do, Dead If They Don't"
http://federalistpatriot.us/alexander/edition.asp?id=282
Thanks for the quote
Damned if they do, Dead if they don't... The Relentless Attacks of The "Embedded" Liberal Media
you're welcome!
Red sky at night - soldier's delight.
Red sky at morning - soldier take warning.
Another newborn makes it impossible.
Thinking of the two, sobers me to the realization that good men and women are standing firm on the frontier of chaos protecting both of them from the realization of evil. And I am proud, humbled, honored...
... and thankful.
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