Comments on: “The New Face of Evil”: Al Qaeda Murders American G.I.’s in Iraq http://www.californiaconservative.org/military/the-new-face-of-evil-al-qaeda-murders-american-gis-in-iraq/ Speaking Out For The Silent Majority (TM) Sat, 26 May 2012 22:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Bill Levinson http://www.californiaconservative.org/military/the-new-face-of-evil-al-qaeda-murders-american-gis-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-199481 Bill Levinson Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:46:53 +0000 http://www.californiaconservative.org/?p=3359#comment-199481 Abu Hamza al-Muhajer is very brave when executing men whose hands are tied behind their backs. We suspect that he will scream and beg for his life the instant he is confronted by an opponent who is holding any kind of weapon, or when the needle is put in his arm for a lethal injection. Remember that Moussaoui pleaded and begged for a new trial when he realized that he was REALLY going to be put in a concrete and steel cell in the Supermax prison for the rest of his life. Would someone please remind us why our soldiers are required to capture any of these terrorists alive? Since they are not uniformed enemy combatants who are fighting in accordance with the laws of war, they do not have the right to surrender and be treated as prisoners of war. They can, upon confirmation of their illegal combatant status by a court-martial (conducted with the paperwork fitting on the top of a drum or the equivalent will do) be put up against the nearest wall and shot, assuming that anyone bothers to capture them alive in the first place. Our own government is a major part of the problem, as shown by its court-martial of Lieutenant Pantano (a successful businessman who volunteered to serve our country because of 9/11) for shooting a terrorist who looked like he posed a physical threat to Pantano and/or his men. Second-guessing our soldiers in this manner undermines the morale of our Armed Forces and must certainly discourage many qualified potential recruits. Abu Hamza al-Muhajer is very brave when executing men whose hands are tied behind their backs. We suspect that he will scream and beg for his life the instant he is confronted by an opponent who is holding any kind of weapon, or when the needle is put in his arm for a lethal injection. Remember that Moussaoui pleaded and begged for a new trial when he realized that he was REALLY going to be put in a concrete and steel cell in the Supermax prison for the rest of his life.

Would someone please remind us why our soldiers are required to capture any of these terrorists alive? Since they are not uniformed enemy combatants who are fighting in accordance with the laws of war, they do not have the right to surrender and be treated as prisoners of war. They can, upon confirmation of their illegal combatant status by a court-martial (conducted with the paperwork fitting on the top of a drum or the equivalent will do) be put up against the nearest wall and shot, assuming that anyone bothers to capture them alive in the first place.

Our own government is a major part of the problem, as shown by its court-martial of Lieutenant Pantano (a successful businessman who volunteered to serve our country because of 9/11) for shooting a terrorist who looked like he posed a physical threat to Pantano and/or his men. Second-guessing our soldiers in this manner undermines the morale of our Armed Forces and must certainly discourage many qualified potential recruits.

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