Bodies of Pvt. Kristian Menchaca and Pvt. Thomas Tucker Reportedly Found
CNN has the horrible news that an Iraq Defense Ministry spokesman is reporting that the two U.S. soldiers who have been missing since Friday have been found dead.
The family of Pvt. Thomas Tucker (25) of Madras, OR has released the recording of the last message they ever heard from their son a few days ago:
“Be proud of me Mom, I’m defending my country. Tell sis and my nephews hello for me, I’m OK, I’m on my way.â€
From Blogs of War: The Washington Post provides the news that I was most dreading — that these two young Soldiers died horrific deaths:
Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Muhammed-Jassim, head of operations at Iraqi Ministry of Defense said the soldiers had been “barbarically†killed and that there were traces of torture on their bodies. He offered no further details.
ALa at Blonde Sagacity adds:
The BBC is reporting that ‘the bodies showed signs of torture’ (and I can only assume that doesn’t mean they were found with underpants on their heads…I assume they mean actual torture).
This makes my stomach turn, and makes me wish we would just unleash the full force of our military on the entire region. As in: turn it into a fucking parking lot. And send an official message to any other country who would wage war with the United States that we’ll do the same to them if they either engage in or sponsor terrorism. Yeah, I’m looking at you, Pakistan and Saudia Arabia.
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The Q and O Blog thinks there’s a lesson to be learned:
There’s another lesson, an unofficial one, which will be passed among the troops themselves. Never surrender. They’ll just kill you anyway. It’s better to go down fighting.
UPDATE:
Michelle Malkin has additional links and updates and even more at Hot Air.
And this lunatic moonbat, Robert Lindsay — a self-described “Independent Left Journalist From California” (feign surprise) — uses the death of these Soldiers at the hands of these barbaric animals to call President Bush a terrorist. Another sad case of Bush Derangement Syndrome combined with a complete lack of moral equivalence. Despite there not being a cure for BDS, it sadly does not appear to be a fatal (except at the ballot box, where it always results in a painful death).
The BBC is reporting that ‘the bodies showed signs of torture’ (and I can only assume that doesn’t mean they were found with underpants on their heads…I assume they mean actual torture). Hat tip:UrbanGrounds
This makes my stomach turn, and makes me wish we would just unleash the full force of our military on the entire region. As in: turn it into a fucking parking lot.
I agree, it makes the stomach turn and brings tears to my eyes. But I was under the impression that we invaded Iraq for the benefit of the Iraqi people who presumably would prefer not to be turned into a ‘parking lot’.
No. We did not invade Iraq to benefit the Iraqi people. That is a secondary objective and result.
We invade Iraq to dispose of Saddam Hussein (and to stop him in his quest to obtain WMD), and to subsequently take the fight to the enemy and kill them on their own ground. We attacked the terrorist cells and regimes in Iraq to make America safer.
A lot of Japanese civilians would have prefered not to be turned into a parking lot, too. But it sure seems to have resulted in a lot fewer attacks by the Japanese on Americans.
Of course, you probably believe that if we were to simply “cut and run” from Iraq, and leave those “Freedom Fighting” Muslim terrorists alone (oh, and we’d have to promise to quit supporting Israel, too), that they’d leave us alone too.
Again — they attack us simply for who we are and for being. They kill us because we are not them. They kill us because we are infidels, and their holy book commands them to kill us.
Nothing less than the final solution to the Sunni question will do….how much does a can of Zyklon-B go for these days?
Nothing less than the final solution to the Sunni question will do….how much does a can of Zyklon-B go for these days?
Comments like this are allowed to stand on this blog?
awww…did I hurt your widdle wibberal feelwings preston?? So very sorry about that.
We’ve come a long way since these posts…
http://urbangrounds.com/2005/01/30/iraq-votes/
Yeah, genocide is hilarious, Caligula.
Remind me to close my ears the next time anyone uses the phrase “but he gassed his own people!”
Sadly, I didn’t even know what Zyklon-B was until I Googled it. I agree that there is nothing funny about genocide.
However, I don’t think that trying to kill off all of your enemy (who are all of a certain religion) — one who is hell bent on converting or killing you — is the same thing as genocide, though.
However, I don’t think that trying to kill off all of your enemy (who are all of a certain religion) — one who is hell bent on converting or killing you — is the same thing as genocide, though.
Well, I suppose that excuses Saddam for gassing the Kurds afterall. I understand he had good reason to fear they wanted to kill him.
But thank God for American exceptionalism- if we advocate genocide- it’s Genocide for Freedom!
Incidentally, I imagine the doctors and shopkeepers and children that would require mass graves would be startled to learn that they died because they were ‘hell bent’ on converting you to Islam. Particularly, considering the US overturned their freaking SECULAR government. If you’d read any liberal blogs in 2002 it wouldn’t come as such as a surprise that- hey- there’s gonna be a civil war after Saddam is toppled!
I cannot imagine the pain and sorrow of the families of the two soldiers who were mutilated beyond recognition. My God, I understand they had their hearts cut out among other unspeakable things. I think about the other soldiers in Iraq, our soldiers, who know what will happen to them if they are captured. I wonder how they all keep their sanity.