I saw this post from Michael Yon [1], earlier today, and had no words for it. It is, the reality of what we’re up against. Cold, hard, brutal. It’s a reality that many in our country don’t want to face.
KJL at the Corner, [2] however, does have words, bless her.
Michael Yon was the only reporter on the scene when Coalition and Iraqi soldiers discovered a mass grave in a village just outside of Baqubah. In the grave were the bodies of murdered women and men and the beheaded corpses of children. Along the road into the abandoned village, the mutilated remains of slaughtered stock animals. All the gruesome mark of al Qaeda.
Go and see. And the next time you hear jihadist apologists, like Kos and Larry Johnson, and the DU(h) crowd, keep the photos in Yon’s post, in mind. That’s what they’re defending.
Update: McQ over at Q&O notes the same post. [3]
No surprise for that, everybody else in the sphere has noted that today also. But check one of the mindless twits in the comments:
Very interesting. This reinforces the fact that we should not have attacked Iraq in the first place — this wouldn’t have been happening. However, it makes it difficult to know what to do now given the complexities of the situation.
The writer, of course, is none other than Scott Erb. I don’t know whether to consider myself more frightened by the idea that he is out on the streets and free and not under heavy sedation, or that he’s actually teaching this crap to our young people, at the University of Maine.
I respond, somewhat incredulously:
All together now : “It’s all BUSH’S FAULT.”
OK now the way sung the obligatory Liberal mantra, let’s look at the facts…
I suppose your comments would make sense if it wasn’t for the Kurds. You remember them, don’t you, Scott?
One major reason we went in was because it was already happening, and in more places, than just Iraq. Funny how quickly you forget.
Even totally absent those points, what your comment amounts to is “had we only appeased these people”…. etc etc.
I don’t suppose the name Chamberlain rings any bells with you, either.
Ladies and gentlemen, I gave you a Class A example of why Educational system is broken : Scott Erb.
Here’s the thing about Erb; every time I figure he can’t possibly sink any lower, the exceeds my expectations. I suppose, that what we have here, is a contest for who wants to be the next Ward Churchill.
Meantime, Billy, where are you, man?