Thursday, November 18, 2004

In defense of our Troops

Key phrase: "Are we supposed to be outraged?"

Was it a war crime? Let's look at the context. Americans are picture-driven people. We don't care about issues until we see them on TV. If we look at this as a police brutality case on the streets of our cities, killing a wounded man would definitely be a crime. And there would be an investigation. However it's not peaceful pristinefulness but this is an urban warfare we are talking about here. A wounded terrorist is shot and killed and there is an investigation. And it is not yet over but the solder is condamned by the whole world already!?

For about two weeks our troops have been involved in this operation of "flushing terrorists" from the city of Fallujah. It was a terrorist stronghold. For weeks prior to the offensive, leaflets were dropped, warning civilians of impending attack and the plea to leave the city. And a lot of the people did leave.

What do the terrorists fight for? They fight to put the people of Iraq in bondage and they fight against the freedom, the opportunity for the Iraqi people to govern themselves and to elect their represenatives and their leaders. On the other hand American Troops fight to liberate Iraqi people and give them the opportunity to participate in the January 2005 elections where the Iraqi people, for the first time, will elect their representatives who will draft their first Constitution.

Now the rules of engagement in the urban warfare is to shoot anything that moves. There is no other way for the solders to survive in this fight. Anything that shoots at our troops gets demolished or bombed. And now an NBC embedded reporter broadcasts to the world how an american solder shot and killed a wounded terrorist. And we are supposed to be outraged. the american solders are shot, bombed, exploded by homocide bombers and booby-trapped corpses of terrorists. And we are supposed to be outraged when a wounded terrorist is killed.

In the same week, we hear shocking reports about a band of terrorists in Holland. These beasts brutally murdered Mr. Van Gough, a documentary film maker who dared in his latest documentary to expose horrible treatment of muslim women. They shot him, cut his trout and pinned a note to his dead body with a dagger. Then few days later Al-Jazeera received a video tape that shows terrorists assassinating a blindfolded woman. Margarett Hassan, a CARE International releaf worker who was kidnapped from her UN office by the same terroists a month ago. And we are supposed to be outraged at the site of a wounded terrorist being shot and killed by an american so-called "war criminal." The question realy is, who is a criminal here? There isn't a week that passes by when we don't hear about civilian foreign workers who are rebuilding Iraq. These brave men and women are kidnapped and brutally murdered by these terrorist thugs. And we are supposed to be outraged when these beasts are killed by our troops.

Now who are these terrorists that our troops are fighting against in Iraq? Nineteen out of twenty of these are either syrians, iranians, pakistanis, chechens or some other foreign terrorists. Only five percent of them are iraqis. And they are not even a subject to the Geneva Convention because they are not uniformed military personnel of a certain state.

So, are our troops committing war crimes? I think they are not. But they are fighting a deadly enemy. So, it's time for you to decide for your self these issues. Have fun :) Bye.

Saturday, November 06, 2004