I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican





Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.

The media and the politicians started an orgy and Nick Berg had to pay
the tab. You pump those pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners long enough
and pretty soon there's going to be hell to pay.

But then, that's OK. It gives them another story, another thing to
criticize the president for, another tool to demoralize the country
with, another way to tear down our troops.

And we're left to ponder the question: When do politics and journalism
become treason? And when will all those squawking whores realize they
have blood on their hands?

About a half a dozen inbred low-ranking Reservists roughed up and
humiliated some Iraqi prisoners. It was wrong, it was an
embarrassment, it was a violation of our values.

But at least we have values.

Unlike these savages with their "God is great" shouts while they saw
the head off a hog-tied cell phone salesman. They rant and rave about
"Muslim dignity and honor" and then act like the sub-humans they are.
What a filthy, hateful, degenerate society they speak for.

And we played right into their hands.

Billion-dollar media companies showing pictures over and over and over
again of some naked guys with hoods on their heads. The abuse of those
prisoners was inexcusable, but so, too, is the completely
disproportional and sensational manner in which it has been reported.
These isolated and essentially insignificant abuses have been repeated
incessantly day after day while every other issue of the war has been
ignored and buried.

The pictures depict real events, but the emphasis upon them without
context or proportionality creates an impression that is deceptive and
false.

And evidence of a disturbing double standard.

The same networks that grind the mill of these pictures, have long
since decided not to show pictures of the collapsing twin towers. They
never showed video of the scores and scores of people who leapt to
their deaths from the World Trade Center. Americans in Iraq just weeks
ago were murdered and mutilated and their bodies were strung up from a
bridge - but we don't see those pictures. Each week soldiers and
Marines are blown up and shot, and we don't see pictures of them
struggling against their wounds on the field of battle.

Why is it that photographs of the bad things the other side does to us
are never broadcast while pictures of bad things we do to them are
trumpeted around the world?

Why is it that the American press is decidedly anti-American in this
conflict? And can anyone deny that, in light of Nick Berg's murder,
that the American news media functions as an aide and facilitator of
terrorist hate?

Didn't the American media give Nick Berg's murderers both an excuse
and an outlet for their terroristic butchery?

And wouldn't it be better if the next time they broadcast pictures of
naked Iraqis in a pyramid they also show pictures of those "God is
great" boys waving Nick Berg's head around, and then ask their
viewers: Whose prisoner would you rather be, the Americans' or the
terrorists'?

At the end of the day, we humiliated their prisoners and they murdered
ours. Neither is right, but one is a whole lot worse than the other.

And it should not be forgotten, either, that while the prisoners we
hold are suspected terrorists and mass murderers - all of them enemy
combatants - the prisoner they killed was some out-of-work civilian
hoping to find a job. He went to Iraq to peacefully help Iraqis, and
their Muslim brothers butchered him.

So who's got the stink finger now?

It's easy to see the enemy for the lice they are. But it's important
to recognize the useful idiots in the media and politics who seem to
help them. Democrat politician after Democrat politician cried about
the prison abuse, their presidential candidate even used the issue to
raise money - all while they knew Americans were being held by
terrorists and insurgents, and while any thinking person would know
that continued attention to the prisoner abuse could only bring
difficulty or death to captive Americans.

Well, now they have a notch on their gun.

You'd hope they'd learn a lesson.

But they won't.

They'll just keep it up, and to hell with anybody who gets hurt along
the way.

It looks like the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.


Bob Lonsberry c 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404

"Rick & LeeAnn" wrote in message
...
I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican


And it shows.



Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.

The media and the politicians started an orgy and Nick Berg had to pay
the tab. You pump those pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners long enough
and pretty soon there's going to be hell to pay.

But then, that's OK. It gives them another story, another thing to
criticize the president for, another tool to demoralize the country
with, another way to tear down our troops.

And we're left to ponder the question: When do politics and journalism
become treason? And when will all those squawking whores realize they
have blood on their hands?

About a half a dozen inbred low-ranking Reservists roughed up and
humiliated some Iraqi prisoners. It was wrong, it was an
embarrassment, it was a violation of our values.

But at least we have values.

Unlike these savages with their "God is great" shouts while they saw
the head off a hog-tied cell phone salesman. They rant and rave about
"Muslim dignity and honor" and then act like the sub-humans they are.
What a filthy, hateful, degenerate society they speak for.

And we played right into their hands.

Billion-dollar media companies showing pictures over and over and over
again of some naked guys with hoods on their heads. The abuse of those
prisoners was inexcusable, but so, too, is the completely
disproportional and sensational manner in which it has been reported.
These isolated and essentially insignificant abuses have been repeated
incessantly day after day while every other issue of the war has been
ignored and buried.

The pictures depict real events, but the emphasis upon them without
context or proportionality creates an impression that is deceptive and
false.

And evidence of a disturbing double standard.

The same networks that grind the mill of these pictures, have long
since decided not to show pictures of the collapsing twin towers. They
never showed video of the scores and scores of people who leapt to
their deaths from the World Trade Center. Americans in Iraq just weeks
ago were murdered and mutilated and their bodies were strung up from a
bridge - but we don't see those pictures. Each week soldiers and
Marines are blown up and shot, and we don't see pictures of them
struggling against their wounds on the field of battle.

Why is it that photographs of the bad things the other side does to us
are never broadcast while pictures of bad things we do to them are
trumpeted around the world?

Why is it that the American press is decidedly anti-American in this
conflict? And can anyone deny that, in light of Nick Berg's murder,
that the American news media functions as an aide and facilitator of
terrorist hate?

Didn't the American media give Nick Berg's murderers both an excuse
and an outlet for their terroristic butchery?

And wouldn't it be better if the next time they broadcast pictures of
naked Iraqis in a pyramid they also show pictures of those "God is
great" boys waving Nick Berg's head around, and then ask their
viewers: Whose prisoner would you rather be, the Americans' or the
terrorists'?

At the end of the day, we humiliated their prisoners and they murdered
ours. Neither is right, but one is a whole lot worse than the other.

And it should not be forgotten, either, that while the prisoners we
hold are suspected terrorists and mass murderers - all of them enemy
combatants - the prisoner they killed was some out-of-work civilian
hoping to find a job. He went to Iraq to peacefully help Iraqis, and
their Muslim brothers butchered him.

So who's got the stink finger now?

It's easy to see the enemy for the lice they are. But it's important
to recognize the useful idiots in the media and politics who seem to
help them. Democrat politician after Democrat politician cried about
the prison abuse, their presidential candidate even used the issue to
raise money - all while they knew Americans were being held by
terrorists and insurgents, and while any thinking person would know
that continued attention to the prisoner abuse could only bring
difficulty or death to captive Americans.

Well, now they have a notch on their gun.

You'd hope they'd learn a lesson.

But they won't.

They'll just keep it up, and to hell with anybody who gets hurt along
the way.

It looks like the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.


Bob Lonsberry c 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404

And this nonsense relates to needlework in what way?
On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:14 GMT, Rick & LeeAnn
wrote:

I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican
serious snippage
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

The reason he was beheaded is because this groups know how to
manipulate your Media... and put pressure on You., so you pressure
your governmemt ,,,
Don`t Believe their propaganda that they Beheaded as retaliation ,,
those fundamental groups do not value Any life . Not your`s not their
own ,,,
mirjam

What the hell are you blather about? The REASON the AMERICAN was BEHEADED was
in RETALIATION for the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. Get over yourself and
stop taking things our of context and making it sound as if you have the lock on
care. I'm sick of it.


On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:14 GMT, Rick & LeeAnn opined:

I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican





Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.

The media and the politicians started an orgy and Nick Berg had to pay
the tab. You pump those pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners long enough
and pretty soon there's going to be hell to pay.

But then, that's OK. It gives them another story, another thing to
criticize the president for, another tool to demoralize the country
with, another way to tear down our troops.

And we're left to ponder the question: When do politics and journalism
become treason? And when will all those squawking whores realize they
have blood on their hands?

About a half a dozen inbred low-ranking Reservists roughed up and
humiliated some Iraqi prisoners. It was wrong, it was an
embarrassment, it was a violation of our values.

But at least we have values.

Unlike these savages with their "God is great" shouts while they saw
the head off a hog-tied cell phone salesman. They rant and rave about
"Muslim dignity and honor" and then act like the sub-humans they are.
What a filthy, hateful, degenerate society they speak for.

And we played right into their hands.

Billion-dollar media companies showing pictures over and over and over
again of some naked guys with hoods on their heads. The abuse of those
prisoners was inexcusable, but so, too, is the completely
disproportional and sensational manner in which it has been reported.
These isolated and essentially insignificant abuses have been repeated
incessantly day after day while every other issue of the war has been
ignored and buried.

The pictures depict real events, but the emphasis upon them without
context or proportionality creates an impression that is deceptive and
false.

And evidence of a disturbing double standard.

The same networks that grind the mill of these pictures, have long
since decided not to show pictures of the collapsing twin towers. They
never showed video of the scores and scores of people who leapt to
their deaths from the World Trade Center. Americans in Iraq just weeks
ago were murdered and mutilated and their bodies were strung up from a
bridge - but we don't see those pictures. Each week soldiers and
Marines are blown up and shot, and we don't see pictures of them
struggling against their wounds on the field of battle.

Why is it that photographs of the bad things the other side does to us
are never broadcast while pictures of bad things we do to them are
trumpeted around the world?

Why is it that the American press is decidedly anti-American in this
conflict? And can anyone deny that, in light of Nick Berg's murder,
that the American news media functions as an aide and facilitator of
terrorist hate?

Didn't the American media give Nick Berg's murderers both an excuse
and an outlet for their terroristic butchery?

And wouldn't it be better if the next time they broadcast pictures of
naked Iraqis in a pyramid they also show pictures of those "God is
great" boys waving Nick Berg's head around, and then ask their
viewers: Whose prisoner would you rather be, the Americans' or the
terrorists'?

At the end of the day, we humiliated their prisoners and they murdered
ours. Neither is right, but one is a whole lot worse than the other.

And it should not be forgotten, either, that while the prisoners we
hold are suspected terrorists and mass murderers - all of them enemy
combatants - the prisoner they killed was some out-of-work civilian
hoping to find a job. He went to Iraq to peacefully help Iraqis, and
their Muslim brothers butchered him.

So who's got the stink finger now?

It's easy to see the enemy for the lice they are. But it's important
to recognize the useful idiots in the media and politics who seem to
help them. Democrat politician after Democrat politician cried about
the prison abuse, their presidential candidate even used the issue to
raise money - all while they knew Americans were being held by
terrorists and insurgents, and while any thinking person would know
that continued attention to the prisoner abuse could only bring
difficulty or death to captive Americans.

Well, now they have a notch on their gun.

You'd hope they'd learn a lesson.

But they won't.

They'll just keep it up, and to hell with anybody who gets hurt along
the way.

It looks like the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.


Bob Lonsberry c 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404

Ok, I'm gonna stick my neck out here. You say it was because of the
torture of the Iraqi prisoners? What was their excuse For Daniel
Pearl???






On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:43:29 GMT, escapee
wrote:

What the hell are you blather about? The REASON the AMERICAN was BEHEADED was
in RETALIATION for the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. Get over yourself and
stop taking things our of context and making it sound as if you have the lock on
care. I'm sick of it.


On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:14 GMT, Rick & LeeAnn opined:

I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican





Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.

The media and the politicians started an orgy and Nick Berg had to pay
the tab. You pump those pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners long enough
and pretty soon there's going to be hell to pay.

But then, that's OK. It gives them another story, another thing to
criticize the president for, another tool to demoralize the country
with, another way to tear down our troops.

And we're left to ponder the question: When do politics and journalism
become treason? And when will all those squawking whores realize they
have blood on their hands?

About a half a dozen inbred low-ranking Reservists roughed up and
humiliated some Iraqi prisoners. It was wrong, it was an
embarrassment, it was a violation of our values.

But at least we have values.

Unlike these savages with their "God is great" shouts while they saw
the head off a hog-tied cell phone salesman. They rant and rave about
"Muslim dignity and honor" and then act like the sub-humans they are.
What a filthy, hateful, degenerate society they speak for.

And we played right into their hands.

Billion-dollar media companies showing pictures over and over and over
again of some naked guys with hoods on their heads. The abuse of those
prisoners was inexcusable, but so, too, is the completely
disproportional and sensational manner in which it has been reported.
These isolated and essentially insignificant abuses have been repeated
incessantly day after day while every other issue of the war has been
ignored and buried.

The pictures depict real events, but the emphasis upon them without
context or proportionality creates an impression that is deceptive and
false.

And evidence of a disturbing double standard.

The same networks that grind the mill of these pictures, have long
since decided not to show pictures of the collapsing twin towers. They
never showed video of the scores and scores of people who leapt to
their deaths from the World Trade Center. Americans in Iraq just weeks
ago were murdered and mutilated and their bodies were strung up from a
bridge - but we don't see those pictures. Each week soldiers and
Marines are blown up and shot, and we don't see pictures of them
struggling against their wounds on the field of battle.

Why is it that photographs of the bad things the other side does to us
are never broadcast while pictures of bad things we do to them are
trumpeted around the world?

Why is it that the American press is decidedly anti-American in this
conflict? And can anyone deny that, in light of Nick Berg's murder,
that the American news media functions as an aide and facilitator of
terrorist hate?

Didn't the American media give Nick Berg's murderers both an excuse
and an outlet for their terroristic butchery?

And wouldn't it be better if the next time they broadcast pictures of
naked Iraqis in a pyramid they also show pictures of those "God is
great" boys waving Nick Berg's head around, and then ask their
viewers: Whose prisoner would you rather be, the Americans' or the
terrorists'?

At the end of the day, we humiliated their prisoners and they murdered
ours. Neither is right, but one is a whole lot worse than the other.

And it should not be forgotten, either, that while the prisoners we
hold are suspected terrorists and mass murderers - all of them enemy
combatants - the prisoner they killed was some out-of-work civilian
hoping to find a job. He went to Iraq to peacefully help Iraqis, and
their Muslim brothers butchered him.

So who's got the stink finger now?

It's easy to see the enemy for the lice they are. But it's important
to recognize the useful idiots in the media and politics who seem to
help them. Democrat politician after Democrat politician cried about
the prison abuse, their presidential candidate even used the issue to
raise money - all while they knew Americans were being held by
terrorists and insurgents, and while any thinking person would know
that continued attention to the prisoner abuse could only bring
difficulty or death to captive Americans.

Well, now they have a notch on their gun.

You'd hope they'd learn a lesson.

But they won't.

They'll just keep it up, and to hell with anybody who gets hurt along
the way.

It looks like the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.


Bob Lonsberry c 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404


Jennifer / Poetta

www.LadybugLane.com

Daniel Pearl wa murdered Becuase he was a Jew,
he was put onhis knees and was made to say , i am a Jew my parents are
Jews,,,, read Levy` Strauss book about it ,,,
mirjam

Ok, I'm gonna stick my neck out here. You say it was because of the
torture of the Iraqi prisoners? What was their excuse For Daniel
Pearl???






On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:43:29 GMT, escapee
wrote:

What the hell are you blather about? The REASON the AMERICAN was BEHEADED was
in RETALIATION for the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. Get over yourself and
stop taking things our of context and making it sound as if you have the lock on
care. I'm sick of it.


On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:14 GMT, Rick & LeeAnn opined:

I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican





Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.

The media and the politicians started an orgy and Nick Berg had to pay
the tab. You pump those pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners long enough
and pretty soon there's going to be hell to pay.

But then, that's OK. It gives them another story, another thing to
criticize the president for, another tool to demoralize the country
with, another way to tear down our troops.

And we're left to ponder the question: When do politics and journalism
become treason? And when will all those squawking whores realize they
have blood on their hands?

About a half a dozen inbred low-ranking Reservists roughed up and
humiliated some Iraqi prisoners. It was wrong, it was an
embarrassment, it was a violation of our values.

But at least we have values.

Unlike these savages with their "God is great" shouts while they saw
the head off a hog-tied cell phone salesman. They rant and rave about
"Muslim dignity and honor" and then act like the sub-humans they are.
What a filthy, hateful, degenerate society they speak for.

And we played right into their hands.

Billion-dollar media companies showing pictures over and over and over
again of some naked guys with hoods on their heads. The abuse of those
prisoners was inexcusable, but so, too, is the completely
disproportional and sensational manner in which it has been reported.
These isolated and essentially insignificant abuses have been repeated
incessantly day after day while every other issue of the war has been
ignored and buried.

The pictures depict real events, but the emphasis upon them without
context or proportionality creates an impression that is deceptive and
false.

And evidence of a disturbing double standard.

The same networks that grind the mill of these pictures, have long
since decided not to show pictures of the collapsing twin towers. They
never showed video of the scores and scores of people who leapt to
their deaths from the World Trade Center. Americans in Iraq just weeks
ago were murdered and mutilated and their bodies were strung up from a
bridge - but we don't see those pictures. Each week soldiers and
Marines are blown up and shot, and we don't see pictures of them
struggling against their wounds on the field of battle.

Why is it that photographs of the bad things the other side does to us
are never broadcast while pictures of bad things we do to them are
trumpeted around the world?

Why is it that the American press is decidedly anti-American in this
conflict? And can anyone deny that, in light of Nick Berg's murder,
that the American news media functions as an aide and facilitator of
terrorist hate?

Didn't the American media give Nick Berg's murderers both an excuse
and an outlet for their terroristic butchery?

And wouldn't it be better if the next time they broadcast pictures of
naked Iraqis in a pyramid they also show pictures of those "God is
great" boys waving Nick Berg's head around, and then ask their
viewers: Whose prisoner would you rather be, the Americans' or the
terrorists'?

At the end of the day, we humiliated their prisoners and they murdered
ours. Neither is right, but one is a whole lot worse than the other.

And it should not be forgotten, either, that while the prisoners we
hold are suspected terrorists and mass murderers - all of them enemy
combatants - the prisoner they killed was some out-of-work civilian
hoping to find a job. He went to Iraq to peacefully help Iraqis, and
their Muslim brothers butchered him.

So who's got the stink finger now?

It's easy to see the enemy for the lice they are. But it's important
to recognize the useful idiots in the media and politics who seem to
help them. Democrat politician after Democrat politician cried about
the prison abuse, their presidential candidate even used the issue to
raise money - all while they knew Americans were being held by
terrorists and insurgents, and while any thinking person would know
that continued attention to the prisoner abuse could only bring
difficulty or death to captive Americans.

Well, now they have a notch on their gun.

You'd hope they'd learn a lesson.

But they won't.

They'll just keep it up, and to hell with anybody who gets hurt along
the way.

It looks like the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.


Bob Lonsberry c 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404


Jennifer / Poetta

www.LadybugLane.com

I know I'm very late in reading and replying but bravo-bravo. Thanks
for writing what I've been thinking

On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:14 GMT, Rick & LeeAnn
wrote:

I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican





Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.

The media and the politicians started an orgy and Nick Berg had to pay
the tab. You pump those pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners long enough
and pretty soon there's going to be hell to pay.

But then, that's OK. It gives them another story, another thing to
criticize the president for, another tool to demoralize the country
with, another way to tear down our troops.

And we're left to ponder the question: When do politics and journalism
become treason? And when will all those squawking whores realize they
have blood on their hands?

About a half a dozen inbred low-ranking Reservists roughed up and
humiliated some Iraqi prisoners. It was wrong, it was an
embarrassment, it was a violation of our values.

But at least we have values.

Unlike these savages with their "God is great" shouts while they saw
the head off a hog-tied cell phone salesman. They rant and rave about
"Muslim dignity and honor" and then act like the sub-humans they are.
What a filthy, hateful, degenerate society they speak for.

And we played right into their hands.

Billion-dollar media companies showing pictures over and over and over
again of some naked guys with hoods on their heads. The abuse of those
prisoners was inexcusable, but so, too, is the completely
disproportional and sensational manner in which it has been reported.
These isolated and essentially insignificant abuses have been repeated
incessantly day after day while every other issue of the war has been
ignored and buried.

The pictures depict real events, but the emphasis upon them without
context or proportionality creates an impression that is deceptive and
false.

And evidence of a disturbing double standard.

The same networks that grind the mill of these pictures, have long
since decided not to show pictures of the collapsing twin towers. They
never showed video of the scores and scores of people who leapt to
their deaths from the World Trade Center. Americans in Iraq just weeks
ago were murdered and mutilated and their bodies were strung up from a
bridge - but we don't see those pictures. Each week soldiers and
Marines are blown up and shot, and we don't see pictures of them
struggling against their wounds on the field of battle.

Why is it that photographs of the bad things the other side does to us
are never broadcast while pictures of bad things we do to them are
trumpeted around the world?

Why is it that the American press is decidedly anti-American in this
conflict? And can anyone deny that, in light of Nick Berg's murder,
that the American news media functions as an aide and facilitator of
terrorist hate?

Didn't the American media give Nick Berg's murderers both an excuse
and an outlet for their terroristic butchery?

And wouldn't it be better if the next time they broadcast pictures of
naked Iraqis in a pyramid they also show pictures of those "God is
great" boys waving Nick Berg's head around, and then ask their
viewers: Whose prisoner would you rather be, the Americans' or the
terrorists'?

At the end of the day, we humiliated their prisoners and they murdered
ours. Neither is right, but one is a whole lot worse than the other.

And it should not be forgotten, either, that while the prisoners we
hold are suspected terrorists and mass murderers - all of them enemy
combatants - the prisoner they killed was some out-of-work civilian
hoping to find a job. He went to Iraq to peacefully help Iraqis, and
their Muslim brothers butchered him.

So who's got the stink finger now?

It's easy to see the enemy for the lice they are. But it's important
to recognize the useful idiots in the media and politics who seem to
help them. Democrat politician after Democrat politician cried about
the prison abuse, their presidential candidate even used the issue to
raise money - all while they knew Americans were being held by
terrorists and insurgents, and while any thinking person would know
that continued attention to the prisoner abuse could only bring
difficulty or death to captive Americans.

Well, now they have a notch on their gun.

You'd hope they'd learn a lesson.

But they won't.

They'll just keep it up, and to hell with anybody who gets hurt along
the way.

It looks like the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.


Bob Lonsberry c 2004

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1404


--
Barbara T

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention
of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved
body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used
up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ------

" WOW--What a Ride!! " __Steven Wright


WIP: Superstition Mountains by Jean Lanning

One has nothing to do with the other. Both are equally damning events.
Sixty-Minutes has done a good job of bringing forth news events that
have far too often been sheltered from the American people. I have a
right to know what my government and the military are doing. I now know
and I'm not at all pleased. There is no justification in either act.
When we behave against Geneva Convention rules, we are no better than
our enemies. When those rules have been "excused" by high-up officials,
it is even worse.

Dianne

Barbara Thompson wrote:
I know I'm very late in reading and replying but bravo-bravo. Thanks
for writing what I've been thinking

On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:14 GMT, Rick & LeeAnn
wrote:


I'm beginning to feel that it isn't "politcally correct" to be more
concerned about the AMERICAN civillian killed in Iraq than about the
"feelings" of a few prisoners.
Lee Ann......proud to be a Republican





Bob Lonsberry Lonsberry.com

I HEAR IT'S A RELIGION OF PEACE

I guess "60 Minutes II" has its first kill.

A guy named Nick Berg.

It was his misfortune to be an enemy captive during sweeps. A lot of
people have died to protect the First Amendment, but this is the first
time the First Amendment itself has killed one of them outright.
[snipped]

"Dianne Lewandowski" wrote in message
...
One has nothing to do with the other. Both are equally damning events.
Sixty-Minutes has done a good job of bringing forth news events that
have far too often been sheltered from the American people. I have a
right to know what my government and the military are doing. I now know
and I'm not at all pleased. There is no justification in either act.
When we behave against Geneva Convention rules,

the Geneva Convention only applies to soldiers not TERRORISTS
so you are completely wrong Dianne.

Sue

You both Mean the Geneva Treaty , regarding POW , mirjam
izon.net wrote:


"Dianne Lewandowski" wrote in message
...
One has nothing to do with the other. Both are equally damning events.
Sixty-Minutes has done a good job of bringing forth news events that
have far too often been sheltered from the American people. I have a
right to know what my government and the military are doing. I now know
and I'm not at all pleased. There is no justification in either act.
When we behave against Geneva Convention rules,

the Geneva Convention only applies to soldiers not TERRORISTS
so you are completely wrong Dianne.

Sue