Real Torture And Murder In Iraq: Where’s The Outrage?
(VIDEO — Hat tip: Cao’s Blog)
Congressman Mark Kennedy (R-Minnesota) made this statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives today, following the torture and brutal killing of two American soldiers in Iraq.
“Mr. Speaker, where is the outrage? We hear stories today of two of our soldiers having suffered unspeakable torture, and left in a nearly-unrecognizable condition. Yet where are the cries of outrage against this brutality?
“Instead, we hear today of the EU leadership focused on closing Gitmo, and members of this body rushing to judgment on national TV before the facts are known about what our troops in the field have done.
“Yes, we should hold our troops to the highest ethical standards, but we must be outraged by acts against our troops.
“Our troops deserve our full support, and we must recognize the intensity of evil that we face, the lengths they will go to harm America and undermine our values, and the need to make sure we win this War on Terror to keep our families safe at home.”
UPDATE: (6/22)
Michelle Malkin: “Don’t Forget The Fallen”
UPDATE:
Squiggler sums it up perfectly:
Call me stupid, but I do not see the moral equivalence of cutting out someones heart, cutting off their private parts and stuffing them in the mouth, gouging out the eyes and cutting heads off to dropping the Koran on the floor or even panties on a person’s head or a dog collar around their neck.
I hold the terrorists 100% responsible for their barbaric acts, but I also hold the American liberal media and liberal bloggers 80% responsible for what has happened to our two soldiers who were captured, tortured and killed. I’m not going to name names here, but you know who you are. You’ve been bleating for months about the atrocities of our troops. I defy a one of you to show even one instance where our troops have committed barbaric atrocities. And don’t bother telling me about collateral damage to civilians during battle and do not tell me about sleep deprivation or loud music.
She won’t name names, but we will.
Jack Murtha, blood is on your hands. Sleep well.
UPDATE: (6/27) Russians diplomats executes, Bush consoles…
GatewayPundit is wondering when our President will speak out.
And so are we…
UPDATE: (6/24)
Gateway Pundit: “What really happened…”
ExposeTheLeft: “E.D. Hill’s Blood Boils”
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Technorati Tags: Mark Kennedy, Iraq, Torture, U.S. Military
June 21st, 2006 at 11:49 am
Wow - a Kennedy that sounds reasonable. Maybe it isn’t just the name that makes the ones from Massachusetts insane.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Real Torture And Murder In Iraq: Where’s The National Outrage?
Our troops deserve our full support, and we must recognize the intensity of evil that we face, the lengths they will go to harm America and undermine our values, and the need to make sure we win this War on Terror to keep our families safe at home.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:26 pm
No moral equivalence
Call me stupid, but I do not see the moral equivalence of cutting out someones heart, cutting off their private parts and stuffing them in the mouth, gouging out the eyes, and cutting heads off to dropping the Koran on the floor or even panties on a pe…
June 21st, 2006 at 1:38 pm
The Need For A United Front
What are the qualities of a great leader? While a simple enough question, the answer has eluded academic theorists and laypeople alike — perhaps for lack of real world examples. There exists an infinite number of books and articles that
June 21st, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Beheaded Americans: Where’s the Outrage?
The pattern, as I said yesterday, continues:
Interestingly silent on this and other atrocities carried out by the insurgents in Iraq are the “human rights†groups who seem to spend every day accusing the United States of torture, war crimes, and va…
June 21st, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Note that most of the American soldiers who were killed in Iraq were
murdered. Fewer than a couple of hundred died from legitimate acts of
war (combat with uniformed Iraqi soldiers). The ones who died at the
hands of non-uniformed “insurgents” were murdered and our real problem
is that every single insurgent who is caught committing violence while
disguised as a civilian is not court-martialed and executed upon conviction.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:31 pm
You know, you’re absolutely right. It’s all John Murtha’s fault. Afterall, Murtha lied about WMD, about being welcomed into Iraq with chocolates and flowers, he lied about mushroom clouds, he lied about who was going to pay for this war, and he just lied and lied and lied until… nobody believes him any more. If, that is, by John Murtha you mean George W. Bush.
Of course, had we begun withdrawing the troops back a couple of months ago, back when the Iraqi’s had the first election, the second election, maybe even the third election, back when we captured Saddam… oh gosh, all these milestones gone by with nothing to show for it! Except now, two dead, mutilated, tortured American heroes. And you’re blaming liberals! What world do you live in? How many more American heroes have to die in Iraq for you to wake up and realize this was a terrible, terrible mistake?
Karl Rove was right (and I can’t believe I’m saying this…) if we had wisely begun withdrawing when Murtha suggested it, we probably wouldn’t have killed Zarqawi (but probably the Iraqis, who were the ones to tell us where he was, would have; they didn’t like him any more than we did), but Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Lowell Tucker may very well be alive, reunited with their suffering families, and safe. If you need to blame someone, blame Condi Rice, blame Donald Rumsfeld, blame W, or best yet, take a long hard look in the mirror.
How dare you take a tragedy like this and twist it for poltical gain. How dare you take the name of John Murtha, an American hero, in vain. And you say I spin the truth!
The CONservatives got us into this war, and it’s the CONservatives who are responsible.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Reaction to the Torturing of Our Soldiers
(H/T Expose the Left)
This morning on Fox News, E.D. Hill eloquently expressed her outrage at the terrorists who abducted, tortured, and killed our soldiers this week. The video is an absolute must see; I have nothing to add.
Bill O’Reilly had a…
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Wonder if Stop Bush! gets impatient waiting for his beer to chill? He certainly has no perspective on reality, and the time it takes to accomplish anything worth accomplishing.
Must be his upbringing.
‘Course his hero, Billy “Cut-&-Run” Bub, only went for the conflicts that would take attention away from stained dresses and “lost” FBI files and such, and soon as the heat from his personal life was gone the soldiers were back home. Including from Bosnia, right? Where was the uproar over that one? Oh, I forgot. We had the European holy blessing for that one, and we’re still paying for it.
S(o)B!: Get a real life, not one you read and fantasize about on the Daily Kos. Like that has anything to do with reality.
June 24th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Billary responded by bombing an Aspirin factory while he had his hands on a hot overweight intern in the oval office and Arafat was waiting in the Rose garden.
I honestly don’t know how these libs can look themselves in the mirror when they’re spitting out these slogans with no thought processes behind them. Do they think it makes them look intelligent, or what?
Bush lied, men died, no wmd, no blood for oil, I think I can recite them all. But none of them are true, and as more documents are unclassified (because organizations like the CIA are too focused on CYA instead of national security interests or protecting citizens)-we’re finding out exactly what the story WAS, and that our cause is JUST.
The media has had a total brain fart–under Clinton, they were perfectly okay with telling the Al Qaeda/Saddam/Bin Laden connection. After Bush gets in office, they have a total memory lapse and the American public follows suit.
There WAS WMD, and we are still finding it all over Iraq. Heck, in 2004, we found almost 2 tons of uranium at al-Tuwaitha among many other things. Saddam lied, men died, we should have blown him and his sons to smithereens long before. Brad Maaske, the guy who produced “WMD The Murderous Reign of Saddam Hussein”, said the mass graves, the generations of families that disappeared–we should have done something long before. 35 years of a sick dictator is way too long. Dictators and terrorists aren’t going to sit and negotiate with you; we are basing too much of our policies and actions on the assumption that the enemy thinks and will behave as we do.
As we know from the condition that Menchaca and Tucker were found in, the mass graves, Saddam’s taking videos of the atrocities, experiments on people and animals and chemical murders of the kurds- that is stupid thinking.
The citizens have been turning weapons found in; there’s actually a program where we give them cash for bringing in weapons and bombs or pointing out where they are. The Iraqis love that stuff.
But they also love being paid off when they can scam their way into making people believe that family members (even ones who are tied to terrorists)-get killed at the hands of American soldiers.
We shouldn’t be doing that, IMO.
Great post, great roundup–enjoyed it.
June 24th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
oops, I didn’t close the html code. It would be helpful to have a ‘preview’ for comments…I tend to be long-winded.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Tortured Soldier Arrives Home
The family of Thomas Tucker gave an interview a few days back to a local news crew which lasted about 30 minutes. I’ve cut it down to about 11 minutes, it should be viewed by all.
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August 15th, 2006 at 8:36 am
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