Wednesday, November 17, 2004

FED UP

I don't know about you, but I have just about had a belly full of our national news media.

The incident with the Marine who killed a terrorist in Iraq is the straw that broke the camel's back.

We are not hunting down and arresting criminals in Iraq, we are waging a war against terrorists.

Now the media is upset about a violation of human rights -- the Marine killed this guy inside a mosque, where young Arabs are taught it is perfectly alright to kill Christian infidels.

And the news media -- every major network -- is repeatedly showing the film clip of a Marine shooting a terrorist who may or may not have been armed.

Yet this same media refuses to show the film clips of American citizens having their heads cut off by Arabs while they are screaming and gurgling for breath.

This same national news media refused to show an Arab shooting the latest kidnap victim -- a British woman -- in the back of her head.

Too graphic, our media tells us, yet they continue to show a U.S. Marine, in combat against terrorists, shooting an enemy soldier -- over and over again.

Various locations on the internet have made films of these beheadings of Americans available to anyone who will search it out.

I have the copy of one of these beheadings saved on my computer -- and everytime I hear how we are mistreating the enemy I pull it up and play it.

Have you ever watched a fellow countryman being held by terrorists while another takes a knife and cuts his head off? Not chop it off but carve it off like you would a Thanksgiving turkey.

Fnally you can hear them gurgling as the terrorists makes the final cut and lifts the head from the body.

And I can still remember the videos of 911 -- people jumping from the top of the World Trade Center, knowing they were leaping to their death but having to escape the holocaust of flames inside the building.

This Marine was wounded in combat the day before this killing -- shot in the face by a terrorist. ABC News refers to it as him being "slightly injured."

If somebody pointed a gun at you and shot you in the face would you consider it a "slight injury."

To be sure this Marine was jumpy -- I would have been too. The only thing that would have been going on in my mind is if I saw movement pull the trigger and sort things out afterward.

What should we do with this United States Marine?

I vote to give him the Distinguished Service Cross, and bring him home for a 30 day paid for leave to Disney Land -- and invite him to bring along as many family members and friends as he can round up.

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