Remember one of John Kerry’s fairly recent accusations against American troops?
And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, …Iraqis should be doing that.
I say fairly recent, as opposed to his infamous Congressional testimony about smear against the troops in Vietnam. Here’s a USMC Sergeant’s response to Kerry on the “terrorizing in the dead of night” topic, by the way.
As to terrorizing Iraqis, well, as long as someone does it, I guess that’s okay with Democratic leadership. They were certainly terrorized, raped and murdered before we got there, and if we surrender and leave as Kerry et. al so urgently desire, they’ll be terrorized, raped and murdered again. (Anyone remember that “Millions of people died in Southeast Asia as the direct result of those votes by the anti-war Congress in 1973-1975″? Are we really going to bet that history will mysteriously NOT repeat itself? But I digress.)
I’d like to suggest that these night-time searches aren’t universally the terror they’re assumed to be. Iraq The Model is possibly the best known Iraqi blog – it was even quoted by President Bush recently. And some American soldiers dropped by to terrorize Omar and his guests last night. (It’s clear from his account that they didn’t know who he was before they got there.) He’s even got photo evidence!
I often find myself in arguments with people about the behavior of American soldiers when they search homes and many of the people I talk to base their argument and negative impression on the footage of some raids we see on TV or on experiences of presumed relatives or friends. When I try to counter the idea of ‘they knock down doors unnecessarily, steal jewelry and treat people bad’ by saying that there must be a good reason the troops sometimes act rough and that ‘for every reaxction there must have been an action’ I often get the response of “what do you know about that? The Americans never searched your home” Well, last night they did…
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Okay, when I got up this morning the server was down. Not only my dedicated server, but my hosting provider’s as well, so I couldn’t even open a ticket about it. I figured they’d catch on fairly quickly, so I made some phone calls and read my bible for a while. (Still in Hebrews – I finish it, then I start again.)
