Pride Amidst Tragedy

No, Rob Port.

Bringing toys is kind of meaningless after wiping out a couple of families--including children as young as two.

And let's not forget, the military tried to cover up Haditha.

"Because despite what people like Rep. John Murtha and other leftist political hacks would have you believe, we are the good guys in Iraq. We are fighting an evil that has no qualms about murdering women and children in their cowardly attacks."

more tripe. "we" are the ones who preemptively invaded iraq based on false evidence. that doesn't make us the "good guys" in iraq by a long shot.

i withdraw the snarky comment that was to go here. it isn't even necessary.

Ha ha ha ha. Yesss....good PR makes it all better. I suppose you think that winning the space race was worth Operation Paper Clip? After all, those Nazi scientists will have to live with their own actions forever after and we made a huge leap, for all mankind!

Rob., Pride? Does Humanity take a backseat to Pride? Woe be us if it does!

Cat., I'm impressed someone remembers Operation Paper Clip; Rob it's never a good strategy to try and Spin out of a Tragedy. You just dig in deeper. Death smells from all directions.

Rob., On a positive note; this issue will be revealing as to how Americans treat it. Time to get the old Jesus bracelet out and wear it again. But then, you and I do not wear bracelets. Thanks for a different perspective. Christopher

Rep. John Murtha has never been a lefty. Anyone who says that is just regurgitating misinformation. I was under the impression that the folks who join Gather.com are serious about writing and self expression. Your posting shows the rest of us that you are not a critical thinker. Your zeal to be right out weighs your passion for the truth. John Murtha has a passion to protect the american soldier from the abuse of politicians. He is motivated not by his politics but by his responsibilities. He has seen the immorality of war on a first hand basis. He understands that mistakes are made in war and he knows the deadly price of those mistakes. I find that it is usually people who have only seen combat from the comfort of their sofa who don't understand what he did. War is a tragedy. It never should be entered lightly. History is full of examples of Goliath's being slain by the Davids of the world. This war is overflowing with missteps and blunders. Yet the information that was ignored in the build up to Iraq has been proven more reliable than the information used to justify the war. Any self respecting conservative should be outraged by the results of a government they helped put in power. Nation building, spending money like drunken sailors, and attacking our free speech are issues that only begin to scratch the surface. We as a nation will suffer long for our sins. It is time that we stop the nonsense and start up the common sense.

"Any self respecting conservative"

now you're barking up the wrong tree...

great comments.

;p

There is, or was, a video on CNN that showed some surviving children being interviewed. One of them mentions taking cover when he saw Americans coming down the street because he knew a bomb was going to go off. When the reporter tries to follow up, the kid is taken away, and the interpreter says the kid is just confused and pay no attention.
Although this in no way justifies the soldiers involved going 'postal", it might mean that some of those killed were involved. It is a tragedy, and the guilty should be tried, but they are human individuals, and not the military soldiers over-all.