A simple word and even then something I don't find strong enough to describe my reaction within to this (WARNING: Do NOT click link if you have a weak stomach). This is a corresponding image to the attacks that occured today in Fallujah today. I don't post this image in disrespect nor for shock value, but for the sheer reality we face in Iraq today among those who would oppose us and Iraq's restitution. You CANNOT reason with this, you cannot negotiate with this and most of all you cannot show weakness to this. Those who cheer this are not the everyday Iraqi who welcomes our overthrow of Sadaam. These are those who think just like Osama and his lot, think just like those who crashed the planes into the WTC. America needs to realize that we cannot be soft in the face of this. This kind of abomination needs swift and harsh (just) reaction. Those who died today were not soldiers but contractors trying to restore and improve the Iraqi's way of life. This is how they were repaid. This is why the Spanish reaction to bombings in Madrid is so saddening. To back down is to give fuel to this; fuel that may engulf our very way of life.
Know that I do not believe this is representative of all Muslims or all Iraqis; that is the furthest thing from the truth. But we must not become PC with such a stark reality presented to us.
UPDATE: Assertion thinks I'm taking part in "reactionary jingoism (scroll to the post "run away"." Only problem with his assumption on my part of "a creeping suspicion that this guy would not have been so outraged if 'terrorists' had been on the recieving end of this" is that you can't find me video or pictures of American soldiers celebrating and dancing admist beating, mangling, and hanging blackened corpses of innocent workers. Needless to say I can also find a MAJOR difference between terrorists (who do such things as above) and civilian contractors who are trying to bring a better way of life to the Iraqis, especially considering what they went through prior to our liberation of their country. And "it's sort of hard to argue with that," if I may say so.
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Posted by: Kristin | March 31, 2004 at 09:39 PM
I have no words for the feelings that are in my heart right now from this picture... even though it is gruesome, thank you for sharing that.
Posted by: Paige | March 31, 2004 at 10:29 PM
Reactionary jingoism? I doubt that. Well, I'm not American and I was so angry and sad when I read the news and saw these images related to that...and I don't think this has to be linked to terrorists taking a revenge to Americans, or anything similar to that argument. It is simply wrong to do stuff like they (Iraqis) did to dead people. I mean, they killed them already, what do they want more? To mutilate the corpses?
One word for them. Bastards.
Posted by: Jae | April 01, 2004 at 06:14 AM
Sounds to me like Assertion is in the wrong country. You see, when our people are attacked, I really have no sympathy for the other side. I don't really care why they do it, I KNOW that the best thing for our country is to stike back and make them sorry for ever making us mad. Mr. "Reactionary Jingoism" seems to have little or no liking for our country, since he feels that acting in our own self interest (and our own self preservation) is a bad thing. I wonder how sympathetic he would be if he had seen one of his own family being murdered and dragged through the streets... Somehow I doubt he'd be making excuses for the murdering animals who did this.
Posted by: Teresa | April 01, 2004 at 09:02 PM
Look, the guy with his "reactionary jingoism" quote would have been dragged through the streets, too, if he had been driving in that Range Rover. The guy needs to open his eyes and realize the world is at war with terrorists -- otherwise he might end up with an RPG up his ass.
Posted by: Todd | April 02, 2004 at 02:13 AM
Something is wrong with that guy's logic, by identifying the US occupation as the cause for the contractors' death. By the same logic, the every single death since 1953 at the DMZ has been attributable to the US alliance with South Korea. Every 9-11 victim, by that logic, died because the US did one thing or another.
That's a messed up view of causality.
Posted by: Tony | April 02, 2004 at 11:01 AM