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| Why it's not easy being a liberal |
| 2006-06-30 |
| by Burt Prelutsky It was inevitable that while most of the civilized people of the world, including millions of Iraqis, celebrated the death of Zarqawi, there was one significant group that pooh-poohed the happy occasion. I refer to those notorious party-poopers, American liberals. Most of their consternation centered on two things. The first of these was that America had turned him into a martyr. Leftists insisted that his death was meaningless because dozens of Muslims would rise up to take his place, while millions of others would now be provoked into joining the ranks of the extremists. That is what the pinheads always say, but the fact is that by this time, after all the suicide bombings and after the killing of so many so-called insurgents and after the capturing of Saddam Hussein, if thereÂ’s one thing thatÂ’s a glut on the market, itÂ’s Islamic martyrs. By this late date, surely they must have run out of virgins in Paradise, and be making do with divorcees, the recently widowed, and elderly spinsters. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Osama is the GWOT's equivalent of WW2's Yamamoto or Rommel, etc. Admiral Bull Halsey got Yamamoto, in part, becuz of his name recognition = myth among the Amer public Damn, you got it pal. JOE 2008 |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-30 12:56 |
| #5 Actually, it's when you indiscriminately harass a foreign country's populace that their will for war hardens (usually). Killing the military head of a unit usually demorlarizes the troops. W/today's 24 hr news cycle I'd prefer their death to a circus trial. Trials are for criminals, known terrorists deserve the sword and no quarter. You shoot them like you would a rabid dog and without fanfare. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-06-30 11:13 |
| #4 I don't know--how difficult is to not have any principles or anything for which you stand? Except the god of political correctness and the support any enemy of the United States? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-06-30 10:49 |
| #3 By this late date, surely they must have run out of virgins in Paradise, and be making do with divorcees, the recently widowed, and elderly spinsters. EEEEEEWWWWWW! What a mental image that brings up. Funny as he!! though, one to keep. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-06-30 09:22 |
| #2 JM: "I really donÂ’t care if we never capture him." I don't want him captured. The Yamamoto treatment is preferred to a long BS trial to be overturned by SCOTUS. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-06-30 08:05 |
| #1 Good points, but remember that Osama is the GWOT's equivalent of WW2's Yamamoto or Rommel, etc. Admiral Bull Halsey got Yamamoto, in part, becuz of his name recognition = myth among the Amer public as derived from Pearl Harbor - ditto now for Osama. Every known ship on the IJN Pearl Harbor strike force was targeted by the US Navy for destruction. As long as Osama and every other planner for 9-11 is left out there, Osama can attack again, and revenge for 9-11 and 3000 dead Amers, etal any new 9-11's, will be incomplete. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-30 01:47 |