I'm home again from Greenwood for the weekend. Thunderstorms are all around us this evening and likely will be all weekend as well. Fortunately, no tractor trailer incidents on the drive home this evening! I do love coming home to my high-speed internet connection and my fat grey cat though. Even if I lived in a cardboard box under the overpass, I'd still love simply knowing that I was home and in my own box (so to speak). Ah freeeeeeedom!!
I just printed and re-read the transcript of the Al-Hurra video tapes. I am just sick from the nasty syrup that drips off the pages with the words of each sycophant captured on tape. Media corruption aside, the transcript highlights the extent to which the Husseins were able to mold their world into whatever image they liked courtesy of their oil coupons. It is simply sickening.
The harrassment described by Raed's family is simply mortifying. The word "behead" is so short and so simple yet so very descriptive. It seems a blip on the paper but I'm sure it hung in the air for that family like no other word. And, I'm left wondering where the outcry was in this country for people like Raed's family after all this has been uncovered. Why do we not hear more Americans say "Thank God those people are finally free to live their lives without fear of Uday"? What will it take for these stories to get to the mainstream so that Americans can be proud -- I mean TRULY proud -- of our country for what we have done there?
Raed's mother is quite descriptive of the conditions she and her daughter suffered while in custody. It is simply incredible to me that Liberals in this country are filing lawsuits and complaining about the conditions at the holding facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Have they not read (and heard) from Iraqis themselves about the disgusting conditions they were subjected to in Iraqi "security centers?" Have they missed the stories about people who have lost limbs in Hussein's torture chambers? How can they turn their heads and proclaim America wrong to have liberated these people from such atrocities?
I have told more than one Lib, when subjected to the "lies" diatribe that I really don't give a damn why we went to war with Hussein in the first place; those fine people are now free to form a more civilized society and exert their freedom to do good in the Arab world. While that certainly sounds Machiavellian, maybe Machiavelli was on to something. In our case, of course, we had nothing but a fierce need to protect our country proactively from what would have most certainly come out of that country to our country one day. Maybe, just maybe, when the reasons are just, the ends do sometimes justify the means.
Thanks to all the brave men and women who are still out there freeing Iraqis from the last threat to their freedom -- terrorists. The despots have been taken down; one more group of miscreants to take out and we can all rest for a bit, eh?
I just printed and re-read the transcript of the Al-Hurra video tapes. I am just sick from the nasty syrup that drips off the pages with the words of each sycophant captured on tape. Media corruption aside, the transcript highlights the extent to which the Husseins were able to mold their world into whatever image they liked courtesy of their oil coupons. It is simply sickening.
The harrassment described by Raed's family is simply mortifying. The word "behead" is so short and so simple yet so very descriptive. It seems a blip on the paper but I'm sure it hung in the air for that family like no other word. And, I'm left wondering where the outcry was in this country for people like Raed's family after all this has been uncovered. Why do we not hear more Americans say "Thank God those people are finally free to live their lives without fear of Uday"? What will it take for these stories to get to the mainstream so that Americans can be proud -- I mean TRULY proud -- of our country for what we have done there?
Raed's mother is quite descriptive of the conditions she and her daughter suffered while in custody. It is simply incredible to me that Liberals in this country are filing lawsuits and complaining about the conditions at the holding facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Have they not read (and heard) from Iraqis themselves about the disgusting conditions they were subjected to in Iraqi "security centers?" Have they missed the stories about people who have lost limbs in Hussein's torture chambers? How can they turn their heads and proclaim America wrong to have liberated these people from such atrocities?
I have told more than one Lib, when subjected to the "lies" diatribe that I really don't give a damn why we went to war with Hussein in the first place; those fine people are now free to form a more civilized society and exert their freedom to do good in the Arab world. While that certainly sounds Machiavellian, maybe Machiavelli was on to something. In our case, of course, we had nothing but a fierce need to protect our country proactively from what would have most certainly come out of that country to our country one day. Maybe, just maybe, when the reasons are just, the ends do sometimes justify the means.
Thanks to all the brave men and women who are still out there freeing Iraqis from the last threat to their freedom -- terrorists. The despots have been taken down; one more group of miscreants to take out and we can all rest for a bit, eh?
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