IN PERSPECTIVE WOW...is this laying it on the line or what? The lady who wrote this letter is Pam Foster of Pamela Foster and Associates in Atlanta. She's been in business since 1980 doing interior design and home planning. She recently wrote a letter to a family member serving in Iraq....... Read it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? Aren't we people from all over the world, mostly Americans, that got brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they? And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet? Well, I don't. I don't care at all. I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11. I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia. I'll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat. I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques. I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs. I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights. I'll care when the same media starts reporting the "GOOD NEWS" (and there is plenty of it) instead of making our brave men and women look like a bunch of rapists and murderers when they are doing the job they were trained for and sent there to do. In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care. When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured that I don't care. When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank that I don't care. When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed "special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts that I don't care. And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and ---- you guessed it - - - I don't care ! ! ! ! ! If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your e-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior! If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great country. I am not deleting this, I am sending it on, but only after I add these words from a GREAT LEADER OF A GREAT COUNTRY: --"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan "If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." also by... Ronald Reagan GOD BLESS AMERICA ONE FLAG, ONE COUNTRY ONE LANGUAGE......ENGLISH
Pretty much sums it up with regard to the lowest scum that maybe ever has ever existed on this planet. These are sick...sick...Mfers that I could give a rats ass about. It's too damned bad we can't round 'em up and nuke em without killing the innocents. My suggestion is that the innocents are blocking our way to this goal so maybe we should give the innocents their just reward and vacate the premises (since they are so conflicted by their own religion they can't see the truth). Right now we play into the hands of the insurgents by sticking around as juicy kills by IEDs. Why not leave Iraq...see if the extremists win and form a gov't., centralize their location and VOILA...now we have a real target to annihilate. Or...are you guys too political to accept that even though that may be a good strategy it would damage the "party".
I just realized how much ******** it is to worry about the insurgents winning. No one thought twice about moving in and taking out big, bad Saddam who had been in power 25 plus years. Why are we afraid to see who wins out in Iraq? If we don't like who wins then as I say...we regroup..re-energize...reENLIST...and then kick the absolute crap out of that particular strain of slime and then retreat immediately to lie in wait for the next victim to come to power. I'll bet that with this strategy after about the 3rd time at max that whoever assumed power in Iraq would kiss our ass repeatedly. But then again this wouldn't play well in November so I guess the Republican Congress would never consider this to be a viable alternative.
Did you ever think of trying to post your ideas without finishing with a cheap shot at whomever might have the audacity to disagree with you?...usually even before they do so? :wink: :wink: stu
Stu, it just gets a little tiresome having to deflect the immediate party line missives from the right that come forth whenever something is posted on here that doesn't agree with the conservative blogs, magazines and radio. I don't think my idea is a liberal one at all but it could make Bush and company look bad so I presuppose it will be shot down here as a viable idea. Thanks for entertaining it as something that could work if that's what you were implying. I do not feel that the present course is the way to go. It has too many starts and stops with no end in sight. Now we appear to be in the middle of a bourgening civil war in Iraq and the complications from that are many. So..as I say...let these assholes kill each other off and if the really bad guys assume power and better yet...highly visible palaces, etc. we can easily hunt them down and blow the dirty SOBs up to Allah without having to have our ground troops in harms way.
I think that the problem with pulling out and letting the assholes kill themselves off (along with all of the other suffering that would occur in the chaos) is not that it would make Bush or my party look bad... I think that it would make our country look bad...just another example of "stir the pot" then get out as soon as the heat gets turned up. I don't have the answer...I get discouraged that there seems to be little or no progress...I hope to God that our leaders really do have a good plan that will let us turn Iraq over to some kind of a stable government. I think we'd all be better off if we tried to come together and acknowledge that we all at least have pretty much the same goals, even if we disagree on how to get there, rather than just trying to villify the other side of the aisle. Kumbaya and all that. :roll: stu
Stu, I just hope that someone is paying the close attention that is required with regard to where this thing in Iraq is headed. If the time comes to pull the switch and get the hell out of the quagmire then no time should be wasted regardless of political ramifications of timing. If the world sees us as quitting then so be it because if the situation in Iraq is not recoverable and is becomes more dangerous for our troops with less results then why stick around? Maybe we will rethink this occupation strategy after removing heads of state that cause us trouble because it is not now or ever has been a very workable strategy in the middle east because of the extremism of the denizens in that area. Can you imagine the trouble we would have had with Germany in post WW2 if there truly were millions of Germans who radically believed in Nazism and it's future?
Either we take up a policy of isolationism, or we decide to do things right when we wage war. Isolationism should drive the price of oil up to the $8 to 10$ per gallon that they now pay in England. Our problem is two fold. 1) We are so worried about what the world thinks about collateral damage when our enemies actually strive to create the same. We stretch out the conflict in order to keep collateral damage to a minimum. We tie the hands of our soldiers which results in higher casualty rate. 2) This higher casualty rate starts splitting our country back home. A country divided is exactly what our enemies want to see. They know that they can use guerrilla warfare and hide among the civilians (if there really are any civilians over there) until the Americans back home show the same yellow streak that appeared during the Vietnam War. We now have a reputation of pulling out of conflicts when it gets hot in the kitchen. Our fighting men are ready willing and able. The yellow streak comes from the people at home that tie their hands and then wonder why it is taking so long and causing so many lives. Look at Israel. They don't care about popular opinion. Damn the torpedoes... full speed ahead when it comes to defending their country and doing what is best for Israel. America used to think that way. Ah... the good ole days!
Speaking of the Koran, I think there's a truth to what William Penn said, "If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." These people choose to be ruled by tyrants, Nothing we can do to change that. I think we need to pick our fights more wisely.
re: pick our fights more wisely I agree. Our country looks out on a world filled with enemies who want to destroy us and "friends" who are unwilling or unable to help us. Its a job for Mr. Lincoln, but there are no Mr. Lincolns in our time...