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.

Hugh Hewitt

Editorial: Tuesday, October 12, 2004

The Duelfer Report

On October 6, 2004, the ISG (Iraqi survey group) release another report. It’s been called the Duelfer report named after Charles Duelfer the head of the ISG. In spite of partisan American news media’s reporting the fact that the weapons of mass murder were not found in Iraq. Since we already knew it from David Kay or first ISG report, it was not news. This latest thousand page report contained detailed evidence pointing to France, Germany, Russia and China receiving future oil contracts or oil vouchers from Saddam’s regime in exchange for voting the UN security council to prevent military action against Iraq and eventual removing of sanctions which would lead to Saddam’s reconstitution of WMD programs including nuclear program. The report also detailed the UN corruption in the Iraqi oil-for-food program. How Saddam was able to skim billions of dollars and divert it from helping his people to buying weapons and supplies for the military, bribes and his lavished lifestyle.

Who is an American?

If you love freedom, you are an American
When the war in Iraq began, newspapers carried the report of someone in Pakistan who had offered a reward to anyone who killed an American. An Australian dentist wrote the response below.

Who is an American?
An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, or one of the many other tribes known as Native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes. But they also welcome the least. The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, earning a better life for their families. I've been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 other countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not particular people from a particular place, they are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

The above was circulated on the internet in 2003. If you know the author please email me his contact info at herman@gncom.net.