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 Damned
If They Do, Dead If They Don't...
Videotape and Fallujah...
[Mark Alexander] 11/22/04 |
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"Those who
expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo
the fatigues of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
In their latest campaign
to eradicate Jihadi vermin on the Iraqi warfront with Jihadistan, U.S. Marines
and Army infantry have, in the last two weeks, purged Fallujah of more than
5,000 terrorist insurgents who were dug in throughout the city. The combat
has been fierce.
A week into the Fallujah operation, an NBC photographer embedded with the 3rd
Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, recorded video of a young combat-hardened Marine
entering a room in a mosque where he found several insurgents on the floor
under covers. Unable to determine if these enemy combatants were injured, dead
or preparing to ambush his unit, the Marine raised his rifle in preparation
to defend himself and his fellow Marines. When he detected movement from one
of the combatants, the Marine yelled, "He's (expletive) faking he's dead! He's
faking he's (expletive) dead!" and killed the Jihadi -- and that is where this
story should have ended.
As it turned out, however, the Jihadi had been wounded the day before and the
NBC photographer, Kevin Sites (whose photographs are featured on many anti-war
Website), stepped up to get his 15 seconds of fame. Sites turned the video
over to his network, telling them that he did not think the Jihadi was a threat,
and within 24 hours, Lefty lynch mobs were forming to hang themselves a Marine.
Notably, the loudest protests of "war crimes" were from those who have never
been closer to combat than the distance between their living-room lounge chairs
and TVs. (Of course, it is a war crime to store weapons in a mosque as was
documented, but the Lefties are not protesting that.) Indeed, the Leftmedia's
mindless promotion of this video (as with the Abu Ghraib feeding frenzy: see
-- The
Abu Ghraib Feeding Frenzy) was tantamount
to shaking a hornet's nest -- making the task of our fighting forces in Fallujah
and elsewhere in the region all the more difficult. Actions have consequences,
and the exploitation of this video empowered Jihadis in the region -- in effect,
making life very difficult for our Armed Forces.
But what you're not hearing from NBC's Tom Brokaw or any other Leftmedia talkingheads
in their wholesale condemnation of this incident is that Jihadis (knowing that
U.S. military personnel have the decency to tend to wounded enemy combatants)
have routinely booby-trapped the bodies of dead insurgents. In fact, one member
of the Marine squad now being scrutinized was killed (and five others wounded)
when attempting to check on a wounded Jihadi only days earlier. In addition,
the Marine now being questioned for killing this wounded Jihadi suffered a
wound to his face a day earlier when an injured Jihadi fired on him.
These facts notwithstanding, the Left and their media minions have now made
this young Marine their poster boy for U.S. atrocities. Here, we would remind
these hypocrites that a few short weeks ago, they were doing all in their power
to support John F. Kerry's campaign for the most powerful office in the world.
This would be the same JFK who received a Silver Star (with and erroneous "V")
for chasing a wounded Vietcong combatant (described as a young boy in a loin
cloth) around a hutch and shooting him in the back.
While we have strenuously questioned the merits of John Kerry's Silver Star
for this action, we have never questioned his decision to kill this VC enemy,
whom he judged to be a threat to his boat crew. By the Kerry standard, the
young Marine in question should get a Silver Star. (Of course, enlisted personnel
really have to do something spectacular to pin one of those on.)
Now that the Left is once again decrying military actions to liberate Iraq,
please take a moment and join more than 115,000 grateful Americans who have
already signed An Open Letter in Support of America's Armed Forces in support
of our Patriots in uniform. These American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines
and Coast Guardsmen have plowed the ground for liberty while protecting their
countrymen back home. We remain the proud and the free because they have stood
bravely in harm's way and remain on post today.
For this, we, the American People, offer our heartfelt thanks. Please support
our troops -- let your voice be heard! Join fellow Patriots on the front lines
in defense of our liberty and national sovereignty. Link to -- http://PatriotPetitions.US/USMIL
(If you don't have Web access, please send a blank e-mail to: sign-USMIL@PatriotPetitions.US
Each e-mail sent to this address will be counted as one signature for the petition.)
Memo to the Pentagon: Leave the reporters embedded, but have them check their
cameras in the rear. Otherwise, the resulting Leftist hype will continue to
jeopardize our mission -- and jeopardize the lives of American military personnel. tOR
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2004 Federalist Patriot
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