Iraqi militants threaten to behead US Marine...

[mainman]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Arab television broadcast videotape Sunday of two men of Pakistani origin taken hostage by militants: a driver for an American company and a blindfolded man in military fatigues described as U.S. Marine lured from his base. Insurgents threatened to behead them both.

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The U.S. military could not immediately confirm that a Marine had been abducted, but the video shown on the Al-Jazeera network showed a card identifying the man by a Pakistani name and as an "active duty" Marine. The man had a trimmed mustache and his eyes were covered with a white blindfold.

 

[Kain99]

That's it! GDIT why don't we just turn the entire region into a sheet of glass! F-em seriously they are running around like a bunch of fricking animals blowing stuff up and killing like its a game! I want them dead! I want them all dead.... I guess Thats not fair because maybe in some far off corner there is a mother with babies who loves what we have done but at this point I'm losing my focus!

 

[FromTexas]

Oh yeah! That is the way to make them leave you alone - behead a Marine. Isn't that kind of like walking up to the hornets nest, calling their queen a ho biatch, kicking their hive, and mooning them as they fly out?

 

[vraiblonde]

If they behead a US Marine, they better say their prayers.

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
If they behead a US Marine, they better say their prayers.

This was bound to happen sooner or later...

 

[Kain99]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
If they behead a US Marine, they better say their prayers.

I think you are dreaming..... What are we gonna do? Crap! I have felt like we were playing games over there for months! Of course I'm a nobody but hot dayum!

 

[mainman]

 

[jlabsher]

Boo hoo, a combatant is captured and we worry that he may die?

 

[Kain99]

Originally posted by jlabsher
Boo hoo, a combatant is captured and we worry that he may die?

I pray that you will never - ever be in the position of having someone you love, in the hands of these lunatics.

 

[jlabsher]

He is a Marine, his job is to go into combat and maybe die. If his family isn't ready for that, there is something wrong. What did he think, join the Marines & get a desk job? Join the Marines for a free education? Not saying it is good that he got captured, but it isn't like he is a preacher, he is a Marine - a killing machine!

 

[mAlice]

Originally posted by jlabsher
He is a Marine, his job is to go into combat and maybe die. If his family isn't ready for that, there is something wrong.

There is something wrong with you. His family didn't sign on the dotted line. He did. I've never known a person who is prepared for the brutal death of a loved one, until now. Thank you for pointing out to me that you do exist.

 

[Kain99]

Originally posted by jlabsher
He is a Marine, his job is to go into combat and maybe die. If his family isn't ready for that, there is something wrong. What did he think, join the Marines & get a desk job? Join the Marines for a free education? Not saying it is good that he got captured, but it isn't like he is a preacher, he is a Marine - a killing machine!

I see your point. I guess to me, it's not that he's going to die it's how he's going to die. It's just to much to handle.

 

[Nickel]

Originally posted by jlabsher
He is a Marine, his job is to go into combat and maybe die. If his family isn't ready for that, there is something wrong. What did he think, join the Marines & get a desk job? Join the Marines for a free education? Not saying it is good that he got captured, but it isn't like he is a preacher, he is a Marine - a killing machine!

That's nice, thanks for the rant, but if you had family in the military your heart would go out to him and his family. Just because he's a Marine, do you think it's okay that they behead him? It wasn't okay when they did it to Berg, it wasn't okay when they did it to the Lockheed Martin guy, and it won't be okay if they do it to this Marine. Sure, he knew when he signed up that something like this could happen, but do you think we should just sit on our thumbs and say "Oh well, he was a Marine, we should've known it was gonna happen.".

 

[SamSpade]

Originally posted by jlabsher
Boo hoo, a combatant is captured and we worry that he may die?

You're right, that makes it *ok*.

And of course, our proper response ought to be to do whatever they ask, because then they'll go away and leave us alone.

 

[Larry Gude]

jlab...

...please accept my removal of having ever said anything complimentary about you or your thoughts. I now despise you.

Completely.

He is a United States Marine. He is trained to fight to defend our country. He is not about to die taking his chances while doing his job on a field of battle; he is a about to be ASSASSINATED. MURDERED. They are going to tie him up and CUT HIS HEAD OFF.

And do you know, see or care about the difference?

 

[Nickel]

Re: jlab...

Originally posted by Larry Gude
...please accept my removal of having ever said anything complimentary about you or your thoughts. I now despise you.

Completely.

He is a United States Marine. He is trained to fight to defend our country. He is not about to die taking his chances while doing his job on a field of battle; he is a about to be ASSASSINATED. MURDERED. They are going to tie him up and CUT HIS HEAD OFF.

And do you know, see or care about the difference?

Exactly. Any American who is not appalled at the thought of a US Marine, or any member of the armed forces, or any American citizen at all really, being executed in the name of Allah or whoever these morons are blaming their violence on these days is, in my opinion, a traitor. These men and women put their lives on the line every single day, so that others might be able to enjoy the freedoms that we do. They have the most selfless jobs imaginable, and anyone who hasn't walked a day in their shoes has no right to judge, or tries to use their job description to justify torture and execution should be schooled in the art of respect.

 

[jlabsher]

Hey Larry, why is that different than civilians (or babies) who were killed by U.S. forces? Hate to sound like a sixties peacenik, but why all the boo-hooing over a military man possibly meeting his demise. That is his job, to go into harms way and possibly die defending the country (against what I still do not know). He got caught, now his life sucks, that is why you don't get your azz captured. Nobody here cried for all the Iraqi civilians (over 7,000 by some counts) who died. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0522/p01s02-woiq.html

Sure it sucks, but I'd rather be beheaded than end up like those kids. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2935335.stm

 

[Danzig]

Originally posted by jlabsher
That is his job, to go into harms way and possibly die defending the country (against what I still do not know).

PULL YOUR HEAD OUT YOUR AZZ

He is there to stop this:

VERY GRAPHIC LINK http://members.cox.net/free_iraq/Free_Iraq.htm
VERY GRAPHIC LINK

 

[jlabsher]

Oh, thats why? I thought it was al-Quaeda and WMD, my wrong, must have been listening to Fox news again.

When will you flag wavers get it, if you support the war you cannot show disdain and act appaled by US casualties, you must accept them and gain resolve from them, war isn't pretty or a walk in the park folks, bad things happen to both sides, that is why intelligent people avoid it at all costs.

 

[Pete]

Originally posted by jlabsher
Hey Larry, why is that different than civilians (or babies) who were killed by U.S. forces? Hate to sound like a sixties peacenik, but why all the boo-hooing over a military man possibly meeting his demise. That is his job, to go into harms way and possibly die defending the country (against what I still do not know). He got caught, now his life sucks, that is why you don't get your azz captured. Nobody here cried for all the Iraqi civilians (over 7,000 by some counts) who died. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0522/p01s02-woiq.html

Sure it sucks, but I'd rather be beheaded than end up like those kids. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2935335.stm

You truly are a effing stool sample of a human being. Being a combatant and dying is significantly different that being captured, paraded around and decapitated before a world wide audience. Is it any different that the others beheaded, no it is not, but where is the moral outcry form the muslim community? The only thing that baffles me more than the absence of their disgust and contempt is yours. You whine like a little biyatch because some Iraqis had to dance around naked with womens underwear on their head but you are ambivalent to this.

If it wouldn't get me banned I would offer to Ken King your ass at the lake of your choosing, to show you what type of ass kicking toughness made this country, instead of the panty waste foo foo jackasses like you who are not happy until we are tamed and dumbed down like a heard of holstiens.

Go ahead you turd, sit around jeering and scoffing while you play your acoustic guitar with flowers in your hair railing about the haves and have nots, and how everything we do is wrong. Might I suggest a plane ticket to France? I would even kick in the first $500 so you can go to your true home, hell I will even buy you a berret to wear on the flight.