Hear No Evil, See No Evil – Just Say It!

Deborah Venable

May 22, 2004

 

I find it utterly appalling, shameful and fearsomely dangerous that the “good” citizens of America have spent weeks now sitting in public judgment of a handful of young people who didn’t quite live up to America’s ideal of a soldier.  The media has spoon fed the “horrors of Abu Ghraib Prison” through every outlet in the country now for weeks and will continue to offer up the court marshals and sentencing of these individuals as long as the public will eagerly partake of the feast.  Politicians will continue to pick at “those in charge” for the “atrocities” against Iraqi prisoners and conveniently forget the subhuman actions of those prisoners, which landed them in Abu Ghraib in the first place.  No one in the media will bother to write the story without the token “scumbag” or like comparison label attached to the “handful of evil doers” – not even members of the media who find themselves part of the hated right wing conservative bloc.  Even some of the soldiers and ex-soldiers are quick to judge the “non-representative few” as undeserving of their uniform. 

 

Pictures are worth a thousand words.  The sheer numbers of the pictures now released are worth all the oil in foreign deserts when it comes to the undermining of American purpose.  Playing on the sensibilities of the gullible American public, the “information machine” of socialist thinking has made God-fearing people accept the images of abuse as testimony to America’s ugliness while denying us the right to see certain other images that should be a wake up call to all Americans’ natural instinct to survive.  There is no balance here.  Socialists, after all, have never been able to fairly fight their way out of a paper bag.  That is precisely why they are socialists.  The pictures of balance offered up alongside those of the “atrocities” should at least include evidence of what these “poor prisoners” did to get themselves incarcerated. 

 

Has anyone in the responsible reporting media bothered to ask about the crimes of these “victims” or are they simply content to worship at the idol of Geneva Conventions in “responsibly reporting” their story?  Has anyone in said media bothered to examine the “guilty” for any other reason than catch them like deer in the headlights and encourage them to “expose” others’ dirty deeds and those of their commanding officers so that all can be “brought to justice” and America can once again breathe the free air of imagined innocence in the court of world opinion.  No.  We are supposed to sit harshly by and judge these young people as the bad apples that have sullied our reputation as a liberating army.  We are content with forcing the administration to go, hat in hand, before the world and denounce the “actions of a few” as non-representative of America. 

 

Anyone care to make a wager or even take a guess at how many other young American soldiers will die or be brutally injured as a direct result of the actions of reporters and non-actions of a bruised, disillusioned, and let’s not forget, sensitive American public? 

 

Meanwhile, our enemies are loving it.  At a time when they should be running scared at the thought of the most powerful military machine the world has ever known unleashed on their sadistic actions and even more sadistic plans, they are becoming emboldened by the ever-increasing hobble the American public and politicians are placing on that machine.  Our soldiers must now think far too long about the ramifications of taking down the enemy instead of following his or her trained instinct to survive.  Ask them.  If they can get the knots out of their also hobbled tongues, they will answer with the truth about the enemy’s advantage that you, the American public with all your sensibilities intact, has served to that enemy.

                 

The “we shouldn’t be in Iraq” crowd is beside itself with righteous indignation at the scandal of the century.  Those same zealots will defend to the death the “rights” of Hollywood starlets to purposely bare their anatomies before cameras for “entertainment” in suggestive poses and “artistic” depiction of sex acts with the hunks of Hollywood, but the zealots find it unthinkable that soldiers born of this same “culture” could find such things “entertaining” in the presence of the “religiously sensitive” enemy.  The “we shouldn’t be in Iraq” crowd doesn’t think we should ever be anywhere that the United Nations has not commanded us to go.  After all, that blessed paragon of moral virtue is the only human organization with a right to direct America’s military actions, isn’t it?

 

Let the record show that this is one pundit who will use her last remaining threads of free speech protection to berate the evil I have seen and heard from my own countrymen over this so-called “scandal” as I ask you all one burning question - how well will your “sensibilities” serve you when you are forced, as you most assuredly will be, to defend your home and your way of life, (whatever that may be), from the likes of those “poor victims” when they make their presence known in your own back yard?  When they rip every shred of decency you might still posses from the bodies of your loved ones while you watch in real horror, will you want to “bring to justice” the actions of these soldiers who tried to stop the horrors on foreign soil, or will you insist that a courtroom awaits the violators of these ludicrous “rules of war”? 

 

While you chew on that one, let me serve up a little dessert.  Think about the effects of Marshal Law on your sensibilities – that will be the outcome of a war in your own backyard – and it has been planned for decades now.  How well do you think you will do when the young soldiers with the “bad apples” are in charge of your every action?  Do you think any will remember how your sensibilities dictated their level of danger while they were still fighting on foreign soil? 

 

Let’s get this straight, America, for once in the last half century – support the troops AND their cause or get ready for more evil than you can imagine!     

 

 

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