May 11, 2004

Senator 'Outraged at Outrage' in Iraq Prison Case

As others condemned the reported abuse of Iraqi prisoners, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe expressed outrage at the outcry over the scandal and took aim at "humanitarian do-gooders" investigating American troops.
[Thank you very much!-Jen]
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"I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment," Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican and an outspoken conservative,[Typical editorializing by al-Reuters!--J.T.]
told a U.S. Senate hearing probing the case.
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"I am also outraged that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders right now crawling all over these prisons looking for human rights violations, while our troops, our heroes are fighting and dying," he said.

"These prisoners, you know they're not there for traffic violations," said Inhofe, whose senatorial Web site describes him as an advocate of "Oklahoma values."

"If they're in cellblock 1-A or 1-B, these prisoners, they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands and here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals."
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On Tuesday, Rumsfeld defended the U.S. military's role in Iraq and suggested that Iraq's expected reconstruction was no more deadly that the building of the United States after the Revolutionary War.

"The building of a free state in Iraq has proceeded probably with fewer lives lost and certainly no more mayhem that we endured here in the United States 228 years ago when we were going through it, or than occurred in Japan or Germany after World War II," Rumsfeld said at the Pentagon.

How meaningful Sen. Inhofe's words were to be were made clear not long after he uttered them when news came in of the beheading of civilian Nick Berg by Al Queda on Al-Jazeera which the IslamoNazis proclaimed to be "vengeance" for our alleged prison abuses:
Killers: Beheading Avenges Prison Abuse

A video posted Tuesday on an al-Qaida-linked Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq and said the execution was carried out to avenge abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

In a grisly gesture, the executioners held up the man's head for the camera.

The American identified himself on the video as Nick Berg, a 26-year-old Philadelphia native. His body was found near a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday, the same day he was beheaded, a U.S. official said.

The video bore the title "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shown slaughtering an American." It was unclear whether al-Zarqawi — an associate of Osama bin Laden believed behind the wave of suicide bombings in Iraq — was shown in the video or simply ordered the execution. Al-Zarqawi also is sought in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan in 2002.
[Do you think Laurence Foley committed any sexual humiliations of Iraqi Muslim prisoners for which his slaughter would be "revenge?"--Jen]
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The decapitation recalled the kidnapping and videotaped beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Pakistan.
[This story broke a day after the grisly revelation yesterday that poor Pearl had refused sedation before he was butchered.--J.T.]
Four Islamic militants have been convicted of kidnapping Pearl, but seven suspects — including those who allegedly slit his throat — remain at large.

Last month, Iraqi militants videotaped the killing of Italian hostage Fabrizio Quattrocchi, but the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera refused to air it because it was too graphic.

In the video of Berg, the executioners said they had tried to trade him for prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

"For the mothers and wives of American soldiers, we tell you that we offered the U.S. administration to exchange this hostage for some of the detainees in Abu Ghraib and they refused," one of the men read from a statement.
[You're damn right they refused! Why should we have let those killers out so that we'd have to go out and get them again? Plus, you should never negotiate with terrorists! Ever. Ask the Israelis!]

"So we tell you that the dignity of the Muslim men and women in Abu Ghraib and others is not redeemed except by blood and souls. You will not receive anything from us but coffins after coffins ... slaughtered in this way."

To be honest, I am still so upset, outraged, and angry about the murder of Mr. Berg that I can barely blog this.
Once again, the Enemy has shown its true face: even the sympathetic Reuters labels them "Killers."
Berg was a civilian, not a soldier and dare I say it?
He was Jewish.
And while our military guards are alleged to have committed acts of sexual humiliation on their terrorist captives, none of those people died or even suffered any significant injury.
But Nick Berg is very dead.
And damn those Islamist killers to hell, using the prison abuse scandal as an excuse to slaughter!
As I told you when this story first broke, they don't need "excuses" or "reasons."
They're cold-blooded killers.
And they must be stopped from killing again.
If that means that our forces kill them first, so be it.
And events like the TV beheading of Nick Berg makes it at least understandable that the soldiers guarding the IslamoNazi prisoners might have been seeking some "vigiliante justice" of their own for the terrorists' criminality like the physical abuse of Private Jessica Lynch when (and if) they humiliated their jihadi wards.
(And Berg's father, who's crazed with grief, is blaming the Bush Administration, which is very wrong.
The blame goes on the Islamist terrorists.
And secondarily on the Leftist media for leading the Enemy to think we're soft and vulnerable.)

At the same time, over in Gaza, the same breed of IslamoFacicst killers were committing more barbaric murder on Israeli soldiers:
Hamas Displays Israeli Soldiers' Remains

Hamas militants triumphantly displayed remains of some of the six Israeli soldiers killed in a roadside bombing in Gaza City on Tuesday, prompting Israeli threats of punishing reprisals if body parts are not returned.
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Through the day and into the night, hundreds of troops searched Zeitoun for the remains of their comrades, which were scattered across a 300-yard radius.

"We are checking every roof and every balcony in order to locate the remnants of the armored personnel carrier and the bodies of our soldiers," army Maj. Gen. Dan Harel said.

Israeli security sources said the search could take days, creating an unprecedented situation in which many Israeli troops would remain in Gaza City - a militant stronghold - for an extended period. Israeli soldiers have raided Gaza neighborhoods before but usually withdrew after a few hours.
Al-Jazeera, an Arabic-language TV channel, broadcast a video it said showed two masked Islamic Jihad activists taking responsibility and displaying what they said was the head of an Israeli soldier on a table in front of them. Israel TV carried the footage but electronically obscured the head.

"We are not conducting any negotiations," Israeli military commander Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon said. "We will show no forgiveness toward those who are responsible for (what happened to) the bodies."

Whether they claim to be Al Queda or Islamic Jihad or Hamas or the Mecca branch of the Mickey Mouse club, these are our enemies, the Islamofacist jihadis.
They want to kill us and kill us horribly, brutally and barbarically.
And we must do whatever it takes (short of losing our own humanity) to stop them from doing it!
Islamofacism delenda est.
Either they go or we go.