The Face of the Enemy
From My Way News (al-Reuters):Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the "Satanic degradation" of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday.
A poor quality videotape on the site showed a man dressed in orange overalls sitting bound on a white plastic chair in a bare room, then knelt on the floor with five masked men behind him.
"My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael... I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah," said the bound man, adding he was from Philadelphia.
Matt's Chat
Will the Arabic community condemn this? Al Jazeera won't even talk about it. This is what we are fighting.Unlike the pathetic excuses for human beings who tortured those prisoners, these guys will not see justice. There will be no outrage. There will be no dialogue about how inhumane this is.
This is an outrage. Burning those contractors (or mercenaries as the radical lefties like Kos would call them) and then dragging their bodies through the street and hanging them from a bridge is barbaric.
This is what we are fighting against. These are terrorists. And they are the enemy that wants to kill us. All of us.
I know what side I choose to be on...how about you?
Mark's Remarks
Where is the apology from the 'peaceful' Muslim Clerics?
Where is the apology about Daniel Pearl from the Arab World?
Where is the talk of a manhunt to get the perpetrators by the Islamic World?
Where is the talk of how brutal and inhumane this is?
Where is the talk of reparations by the Islamic world?
I'm not hearing any. What I am hearing out there is the sound of war. I am hearing politicians here risking American lives by emboldening terrorists with handwringing and showing weakness. Yes, the pictures and the actions were terrible. But what in the world do you call beheading? In this brutal way? Where is the outrage over another beheading of a non-combatant? Where is Ted Kennedy's call to get the evildoers 'all the way up the chain?' I grow more ashamed of my elected representatives for their handwringing and politicizing than I do ashamed of our soldiers. In my opinion, because of all the outrageous outrage, the blood of this contractor is on the hands of many in Congress, as well as the American media.
We cannot waver. We cannot falter. We cannot fail. We must get these terrorists, because what they did to this young man they want to do to all of us. Remember that, especially next time you see a politicizing politician using prison pictures for political gain, as networks flash these images and the contrived outrage by the left around the world, emboldening terrorists.
