The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal.
— Malcolm X (1964)
For the longest time, we have been hearing about the “systematic means of torture” that America has been conducting in places like Gitmo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Fueled by the Liberal ideology, much of the press along with so-called non partisan organizations like Amnesty International have been very quick to tell the world of the horrors of how America has been treating these prisoners of war who do no abide by guidelines drafted by the Geneva Convention. Critics have found it easy to condemn America’s non-traditional tactics, but at the same time run from the basic question “how do you extract information that could save millions of lives from a person who has been trained not to respond to traditional methods of extraction?” American military personnel are forced to answer this question everyday in the heat of war while critics volley their criticisms from their safe bunkers (i.e. a cubical) in some office suite outside of the war zone.
As I mentioned earlier, leftest will not discuss the fact that jihadist are trained not to respond to traditional means of questioning. In short, they have looked at the guidelines of the Geneva Convention and created their tactics around them. Basically, we are giving them a test where they already know the answers. Yet those who will flash facts and figures showing alleged case after case of torture at the hand of Americans somehow grow silent when it comes to presenting this type of information when it comes from the hands of terrorist. This whole thing plays right into the socialist ideology that tells us that if you are a leader, very rich, and not ashamed of that fact, (like America) then you are the oppressor.
America and its allies are in the midst of World War III against enemies who are trained from a very young age to believe that all westerners and non-Muslims are evil and must be killed. From under the age of 10 on up, many of our enemies in this war have brainwashed to strap on explosives and killed themselves along with many innocent civilians around them. Yet you will not see not one protest from anti-war activist condemning this type of activity. Instead of absorbing this reality, many Leftest prefer to take the “safe” approach to protest by comparing apples to oranges arguing that America has figuratively done the same thing.
We are dealing with an enemy who is actively trying to recreate another 9/11 both here and abroad and all the anti-war crowd can do is to preach the message that America and its soldiers are the ones spreading evil. At the same time, this crowd has been turning away from the daily harsh reality that the real torture has been taking place right under their noise for years. A discovery by our soldiers over the weekend provides yet another example of they type of enemy we are fighting.
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From: NY Times
Marines on an operation to eliminate insurgents that began Friday broke through the outside wall of a building in this small rural village to find a torture center equipped with electric wires, a noose, handcuffs, a 574-page jihad manual – and four beaten and shackled Iraqis.
The American military has found torture houses after invading towns heavily populated by insurgents – like Falluja, where the anti-insurgent assault last fall uncovered almost 20 such sites. But rarely have they come across victims who have lived to tell the tale.
The men said they told the marines, from Company K, Third Marines, Second Division, that they had been tortured with shocks and flogged with a strip of rubber for more than two weeks, unseen behind the windows of black glass. One of them, Ahmed Isa Fathil, 19, a former member of the new Iraqi Army, said he had been held and tortured there for 22 days. All the while, he said, his face was almost entirely taped over and his hands were cuffed.
In an interview with an embedded reporter just hours after he was freed, he said he had never seen the faces of his captors, who occasionally whispered at him, “We will kill you.” He said they did not question him, and he did not know what they wanted. Nor did he ever expect to be released.
“They kill somebody every day,” said Mr. Fathil, whose hands were so swollen he could not open a can of Coke offered to him by a marine. “They’ve killed a lot of people.”
From the house on Saturday, there could be heard sounds of fighting from the large-scale offensive to eliminate strongholds of insurgents, many of whom stream across Iraq’s porous border with Syria. [Page 10.]
As the marines walked through the house – a squat one-story building of sand-colored brick – the broken black window glass crunched under their boots. Light poured in, revealing walls and ceiling shredded by shrapnel from the blast they had set off to break in through a wall. Latex gloves were strewn on the floor. A kerosene lantern lay on its side, shattered.
The manual recovered – a fat, well-thumbed Arabic paperback – listed itself as the 2005 First Edition of “The Principles of Jihadist Philosophy,” by Abdel Rahman al-Ali. Its chapters included “How to Select the Best Hostage,” and “The Legitimacy of Cutting the Infidels’ Heads.”
Also recovered were several fake passports, a black hood, the painkiller Percoset, handcuffs and an explosives how-to-guide. Three cars loaded with explosives were parked in a garage outside the house. The marines blew them up (…more–may need to register)
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