Where Are The Human Rights Organizations?
Michelle cites the work of Military vet Jeff Emanuel
Privates First Class Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker were members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)’s “Strike” Brigade, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Both Menchaca and Tucker volunteered to be members of the US Army. Both volunteered to be infantrymen. Both knew, as do all members of the US Armed Forces, that they could end up in harm’s way as a result of their volunteering”doubly so since both initially enlisted well after the Iraq War (and postwar process) had begun. In a written statement, Tucker’s family said that their son had joined the military in part out of a desire to “do something positive.” They also released to the press the text of a message he left on their answering machine less than a week before his capture, in which he reaffirmed his commitment to, and belief in, his mission. “I’m defending my country,” he said, and he asked his mother to be proud of him.
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 various human rights violations. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called the Iraq war “illegal,” and John Pace, former UN chief of Human Rights for Iraq, has said that human rights conditions are “as bad now as they were under Saddam,” but was it America that filled mass graves with hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqi civilians? Last month, Human Rights Watch again accused the US of “brutalizing Muslim suspects in the name of the war on terror,” but how many times have Americans strapped bombs to their own chests and purposely detonated themselves in a large crowd of civilians? Amnesty International’s website highlights America’s use of “torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” against terrorist captives, but how many prisoners”Muslim or otherwise”have Americans brutally beheaded?
Laura Ingraham and Bill O’Reilly kicked around the issue last night.
Andy McCarthy weighs in on Geneva and savagery–and al Qaeda’s reminder to the Supreme Court, which will soon decide “the most important case of its term, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.”
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June 21, 2006 - 08:36 AM on June 21st, 2006
Peejz:
Your the best. This is an issue we were talking about over the water cooler. Wish your articles could be on the front page of every newspaper and billboards, also mandatory news broadcast. Keep up the great work!
June 21, 2006 - 08:44 AM on June 21st, 2006
#1…nope, ain’t gonna happen…this article is too pro-America. Our MSM would actually have to take a side on the ware running this article.
June 21, 2006 - 09:32 AM on June 21st, 2006
Tag1 I will contine to re-print pieces like this as the stories need to be told! Glad you liked it!
June 21, 2006 - 09:32 AM on June 21st, 2006
2- Now Sandy, what gives you that idea:wink:
June 21, 2006 - 10:14 AM on June 21st, 2006
The so-called human rights organizations are silent. I’d like to see Hannity, or maybe O’Reilly, or someone get one of their loud-mouthed reps on their program and ask the hard question. No doubt they’ll weasel out and never answer it.
They are hypocrites, imo. And liars, because their real mission is to undermine the U.S. They are classic boll weevils.
June 21, 2006 - 09:00 PM on June 21st, 2006
I just have one question. When are we going to start treating these terrorists in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and international law? We could shut down over half of Gitmo if we simply did exactly what the Geneva Conventions call for and start executing these SOBs. It would also send a very strong “we’re tired of your #$%^ and we’re NOT going to take it anymore.” The Islamic radicals are seeing the Dems, ACLU,and the Amnesty international crowd as a sign of weakness. I think that the pictures of the bodies of both of these soldiers should be posted above the fold on USA Today with the Headline of “NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE’RE FIGHTING AGAINST?”
I think I may have figured out what the Dems’ problem is. They were the kids who had their lunch money stolen by the school bully and their mother said they were the bigger person for not fighting back. I’ll give them a hint from someone who was bullied a lot growing up. It all came to a screeching halt once I started kicking the $%^& out of the bullies. Don’t think that’ll work in Iraq? All you have to do is read the documents found on Zarquawi. Once the word got out that the US was kicking butt and not even bothering to take names, the idiots willing to volunteer to die dwindled significantly.
June 21, 2006 - 09:19 PM on June 21st, 2006
#6 I salute you.
June 21, 2006 - 10:27 PM on June 21st, 2006
Yeah just where is the usial idiots from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL? well their busy right now trying to disarm us SCEW THEM ALL:mad:
June 22, 2006 - 10:11 PM on June 22nd, 2006
Why thank you Tag1