I'm so fucking angry I could scream!
"Kin 'devastated' to hear of soldiers DEATHS"??? ["Deaths?" Like they dropped dead of heart attacks? And only the FOURTH link from the top in the "top stories" section of CNN.com. A story about alleged abuse by U.S. soldiers against Iraqis made number 1, naturally.]
"U.S. says bodies of two soldiers recovered were 'brutalized'"? [at least on the front page of the NYTimes, but was the "U.S. says..." really necessary?? Is there any doubt that beheading and hacking to death is the textbook definition of brutality? If it were Iraqis saying we'd put the twist-ties on one of the terrorists too tight, would they have used "Iraqis say" at the beginning of the headline "US Soldiers brutalize Iraqi civilian"? I'm guessing NOT.]
But hey, at least these media sources covered the story from the front page! The LA Times didn't include it in its top stories at all, and didn't even mention it on the home page. But Brangolina made it! Lord knows SHE'S more important than the brutal MURDER of two of our own soldiers, off defending OUR FREEDOM TO BE SO GOD DAMN FUCKING PIG IGNORANT!
AAAAAAARGH! I want to reach out and hurt someone at the BBC too. You can bet your ASS if a Palestinian suicide bomber were stopped and groped inappropriately on his way to blow up a bus of school kids in Tel Aviv, they'd be all over it, Human Rights Watch too, but in their coverage of the war today? Did the two soldiers who were barbarically tortured, mutilated and strewn by the side of a dirt road make the cut? NOPE. What did make it? A story about Bush wanting to close GITMO (yeah, in a pig's eye he wants it closed), and how our soldiers are going to be charged with murdering some Iraqis.
WHAT.THE.FUCK.
And my own hometown paper (a subscription to which I plan to cancel immediately) put the story below the fold (below a sad mournful account of the way the mean nasty GOP-led House plans to squish any hopes of a full-on invasion by the Mexican horde when it kills the beyond-asinine Senate bill). How do you think they titled their piece of excrement masquerading as journalism??
"Why were soldiers left isolated?" (I'd supply link but their site is down)
Yup. They weren't brutally murdered either. They were "found dead." So, if you were new to this planet, or only just crawled out from under a rock today, you would think these "soldiers" were no more than two school children out for a stroll unsupervised when they succumbed to what, the heat?! Poor wittle babies were left isolated and alone and this just HAPPENED to them?
No mention of the fucking savages who brutally attacked them, imprisoned them, tortured, beheaded, mutilated and defiled them. No, that would be icky. That wouldn't address the much more important point (apparently) that the military to which they belonged and the country they so valiantly defended are really to blame for their "deaths."
Of course if they were terrorists, or Iraqi citizens, or some schmo peacenik who purposely walked unarmed into the most dangerous part of town thinking he could befriend satan's new bitch, Zarqawi himself, THEN any violence or torture (even if it were merely "alleged") would be front page news. ALSO our fault of course regardless of who was dong the brutalizing, but at least front page news, complete with horrified tone and plenty of righteous indignation and calls for investigation and blame. And don't let the bastards lie to you that they aren't including the gorey details on account of their being too gorey. That didn't bother them when they saw fit to run over 35 front page stories (photos included of course) on Abu Ghraib "abuse" allegations.
What is wrong with journalists? Do they truly want us to lose? Are they so hell-bent on bringing down the current administration they'll sacrifice any sense of morality they might have had, EVER? Do they not "get" that their heads would lop off just as easily (although no less painfully) if these fuckers WIN and the terrorists are emboldened to try what the Toronto terrorists were already planning? Do they not GET that the reason those maniacs had to try in Canada is that Canada has already demonstrated that it lacks even more testicular fortitude than we do? They've emasculated their military completely, while simultaneously allowing every Tom, Dick and Mohammed in on the most spurious claims of "refugee" status. It is THEY who will deserve what they'll get if more people like the one's they caught manage to pull of an attack there.
I just wonder what it's going to take for these asshats to realize what we're up against here. A dirty bomb attack in New York City? A hundred thousand dead in D.C.? What's the breaking point beyond which even their hamster brains cannot justify barbarism in the name of religion of all things! Does their hypocrisy know no bounds?
These are the same writers who have seizures if someone uses the letters G-O and D in a sentence (not even strung together in a word) on public property, but when fanatics with scimitars lop off American heads in the name of their deity, somehow it's not only our fault for being in their way, it's a legitimate expression of their faith?
And if their moral bankruptcy is complete, what's it going to take for the rest of us to rise up and shut them down for good? What's it going to take for us to march through the streets with pitchforks ready to skewer people who could purposely craft headlines like today's?
What kind of person sits at a desk and thinks "Hmmmm....How can I turn the savage murders of two great kids into political fodder for my side? How can I USE their deaths to our advantage? How can I blame them for dying or at least blame them for being in the wrong place at the right time? And while I'm at it, how can I deflect the outrage that will surely come from those who wonder why I didn't do the same when it was Nick Berg's head on a stick?"
This is a dark day in our history folks. We are at a crossroads with this thing in Iraq. We will either commit ourselves 100% to winning, as a country, press included, or we will allow weak-kneed cowards full of venom and jealousy to force us to lose, all in the name of regaining power for themselves. And for what? Why do they want power so badly? They want it so they can continue to do more of the same without challenge, without end. They will stop at nothing less than reducing American power to that of Luxembourg or Belgium. Why? Because they are more concerned (apparently) with being "liked" by people than with being ALIVE.
FUCK THEM, FUCK THE PEOPLE THEY WORK FOR, and FUCK US FOR NOT DOING MORE TO SHUT THEM THE FUCK UP!
OK, I will now go wash my mouth out with soap so I can kiss my babies when they wake up from naps!
Posted by insomnomaniac at June 21, 2006 2:54 PM | TrackBack