The MSM continues to monitor the body count in Iraq like some warped type of fantasy sports game.

Witness this excerpt from an Associatedantiamerican Press article concerning the Islamotard attack on the Palestine Hotel today:

But the toll among American service members killed in the Iraq war reached 1,997 with the announcement of a Marine killed Sunday during fighting in western Iraq.

Since the beginning of 2005, at least 465 vehicle bombings, including suicide car bombs and vehicles exploded by remote detonations, have killed at least 2,250 people in Iraq.

Too bad these idiots lack any sense of historical perspective, much less decency.

The following are from The Chronology Of World War Two: The Day By Day Illustrated Record 1939-1945:

Yes, you read that right. More American civilians died in WWII than have died in the GWOT, which has now gone on longer than WWII, and will continue for many years.

I could care less anymore if the MSM is anti-war or pro-war, but in struggles of freedom vs. tyranny, at least they could offer some balanced perspective.

Fat chance, that.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

They got their wish, the gleeful gibbering has begun:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The American military death toll in the Iraq war reached 2,000 Tuesday with the announcements of three more deaths, including an Army sergeant who died of wounds at a military hospital in Texas and a Marine and a sailor killed last week in fighting west of Baghdad.

The 2,000 mark was reached amid growing doubts among the American public about the Iraq conflict, launched in March 2003 to destroy Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction. None was ever found.

The media is doing its level best to demoralize this nation by ruthlessly tallying up the number of dead. They know that the historical knowledge of the average citizen is woefully inadequate. They feed on it, in an attempt to convince them that this war is Vietnam The Sequel.

Therein lies their folly. By assuming that you and me are too stupid to make any connection to the past, they beat the drum of despair.

They shriek 2000 dead!!!! For nothing!!!!!! No WMD!!!!!

Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, and Romania had no WMD, either, yet this country sacrificed 292,000 of its best and its brightest to defeat the Axis.

If the media is going to use the same tactics in this war that they used to help turn public opinion against the Vietnam war, by magnifying the bad while ignoring the good, then I believe it's up to us bloggers to use history in order to provide some balance to this misinformation.

This post was not about numbers, it was not about "playing bingo" with the dead. I did this post to provide a historical perspective as to what this country was once willing to pay in order to secure its freedom and continued existence. Without that perspective, we run the risk of letting the propagandists of the other side form the picture in people's minds of what this war is about.

And it is more than apt to compare this conflict with WWII. Islamofascism and Nazism are nearly identical in their respective quests. It's even apt to compare this conflict with Vietnam, given that both are rife with spectacular Allied military victories that are twisted and spun to make them seem like defeat.

We owe our knowledge of the truth about Vietnam to diligent historians. Militarily, the United States crushed the enemy. North Vietnam suffered over 1 million casualties in that war. That truth wasn't consumed by the pubic at the time, they ended up demoralized, and were unwilling to see the victory through to the end.

We no longer have the luxury of time, my friends. History needs to be written now, in the face of this hostile media, a political party that no longer stops playing at the waters edge, and a public that consumes it's news in 30 second sound bites.

Posted by: Vinnie at 08:07 PM | Comments (37) | Add Comment
Post contains 711 words, total size 5 kb.

Anti-War MP Accused of Lying About Oil-for-Food Payoffs

Ferociously anti-war British Minister of Parliament George Galloway now stands accused of having profited from the oil-for-food program and lying about his involvement to the US Senate. From the Guardian (UK):

The MP George Galloway angrily rejected fresh allegations last night from a US senate investigation that he lied under oath about Saddam Hussein's multimillion-pound oil-for-food programme.

Posted by: Bluto at 12:00 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
Post contains 252 words, total size 2 kb.

The lawyer who was kidnapped yesterday has been found dead:

A lawyer who was defending an associate of Saddam Hussein has been found dead after being abducted in Baghdad.

It's puzzling why they'd go after the defense attorneys, but, maybe it's because they can't get to anyone else:

Four of the five judges and most of the prosecution lawyers have remained anonymous for safety reasons.

The names of the chief judge and the top prosecutor were the only ones revealed.

The defence team's identities were not kept secret, and Saddam Hussein's top lawyer, Khalil Dulaimi, said many had been threatened.

The government has now offered protection to any defence lawyer who wants it.

Dunno, terrorists aren't exactly known for their intellectual prowess.

Also at Ace's

Posted by: Vinnie at 10:49 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
Post contains 135 words, total size 1 kb.

"Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive."

It's just a guess, but the trial of Saddam Hussein may go a long way towards making Iraq a much better place.

But, as with all healing, the wounds still fester, and need cleansing from time to time:

Why do you think the trial was fine? It was pathetically weak and you cannot imagine the pain I felt when I saw the bloody murderer being allowed to speak and to defy the court. I could see the smiles on the faces of the BaÂ’athists and the Arab mercenary who speak of Saddam as a brave lion, havenÂ’t you heard what Raghad said on Al-Arabiya? She said: I never saw a greater or a braver father.

She killed me again, killed me and my mother whom Saddam stole her life. I was small when my dad was murdered but I see sadness in my motherÂ’s eyes everyday, that woman had to bury her father, brother and husband.
I cannot celebrate justice now because to me justice means that Saddam must be cut into pieces and burned with his gang and familyÂ…justice means that the suffer like we suffered.

More:

You know, we never thought of carrying arms and fighting, we were good citizens serving the country with the knowledge and degrees we earned with hard work and we never imagined we would be forced one day to carry arms and battle the BaÂ’athists in the mountains and deserts but itÂ’s Saddam and his oppressive regime that left us with no other choiceÂ…
IÂ’m telling you this and IÂ’m free again and IÂ’m proud of what I and my family did while that miserable coward is sitting in a cage and about o beg for mercy.

Yes I do feel that justice is winningÂ….

This is why it is a pointless exercise, both in brain power and in time, to read the Mainstream Media's coverage of Saddam's trial.

The AP doesn't talk to these people, Reuters doesn't talk to these people, none of them do.

The Internet in general, and bloggers in particular, are the ones getting stories like this out. It's intrepid souls like Mohammed and Omar doing it. It's people like Jane, championing the plight of Yemenis, like Stefania, and Bridget going to bat for Iranians.

The folly of today's dictator is that they love shiny new technology, but are unable to comprehend that that very technology may lead to their downfall. No longer do the oppressors control the printing press, for once the first computer is hooked into the 'net, the world becomes the printing press. And no dictator in history has ever succeeded in conquering the entire world.

Totalitarian thugs aren't going to be defeated from those of us commenting on their actions from the outside looking in, although we can do our part by helping to spread the word. They are going to be defeated by those brave souls who dare to speak the truth from within.

Posted by: Vinnie at 01:49 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 512 words, total size 3 kb.

Fox:

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Ten masked gunmen kidnapped the lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants Thursday, police said.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, ladies and germs, but no, it wasn't Ramsey Clarke.

We're still stuck with him.

Posted by: Vinnie at 03:23 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
Post contains 52 words, total size 1 kb.

Saddam set to go on trial Wednesday.

Some questions:

Will the MSM cover this like they covered Scott Peterson, or even Martha Stewart?

Can he make things easier on himself if he produces a Heisman Trophy and vows to go after the real killers?

If he's convicted, but gets spared the death penalty, will he still be isolated, or will he be placed in an Iraqi federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?

Posted by: Vinnie at 07:10 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
Post contains 75 words, total size 1 kb.

Iraq the Model has a wrapup of today's Iraqi Constitutional referendum.

Hit their sidebar links for more Iraqi reaction.

Posted by: Vinnie at 11:44 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 23 words, total size 1 kb.

The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah, a well-known terrorist organization in Iraq with ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda forces, has released a video in which two hostages are beheaded. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video. Gruesome images from the video are posted below (WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW).

The two innocent civilians are identified as Shaker Mahmoud Jassim and Riyadh Najim Abdullah. The timestamp on the video indicates it was made on September 12th of this year, but the video was not uploaded to the internet until today.

As in all such videos, the terrorists first force the victims to 'confess' to various crimes before they are murdered. Pronouncement of guilt is made on the victims under Islamic law. Thus, the murder and torture done by the terrorists is legitimized in the eyes of radicals as the legal execution of criminals for crimes against Islam. The beheading is done with a knife, is slow, and very painful.

Jassim is forced in the video to 'confess' that he works for the U.S. Army as an informant. As in all jihadi videos, American forces are portrayed as tools of a wider Jewish conspiracy.

The AP reports that Jassim urges in his 'confession':

I call on everyone who works with the Jews and the Americans to repent to God and leave this job.

"We have become slaves to money," he said before he was taken outside and decapitated.

That those who do not “come back to your religion and repent” will also be slaughtered.

The Army of Ansar al-Sunna is an offshoot of The Army of Ansar al-Islam, a Salafist terror organization with roots in Kurdish Iraq. After the fall of the Hussein Regime, the former leader of Ansar al-Islam, Musab al-Zarqawi, took foreign elements to found Tawhid and Jihad--later pledging loyalty to Osama bin Laden and changing the name, once again, to al Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers (Mesopotamia, or Iraq). Ansar al-Sunnah and al Qaeda are believed to operate seperately now, but occasionally announce collaboration with one another.

This is the first beheading video in many months. These types of videos are propaganda meant for domestic purposes. The reason the terrorists in Iraq stopped producing beheading murder videos, and instead turning to videos of IED and other attacks on U.S. forces, is because they believed that they were doing more harm than good. Such videos tend to turn off the great mass of the Iraqi people, and especially Sunni Muslims on whom the terrorists depend for support and anonymity.

This video can only mean one thing: the terrorists have run into a wall in Iraq, they feel they must resort to threatening the population once again. The terrorists are slowly but surely losing.

Graphic images from the video below:

WARNING: PROCEED AT OWN RISK.

Why show these images? This is the true face of the so-called insurgents in Iraq. They are nothing more than terrorists scum who have a vision for Iraq similar to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They are waging jihad not only against Americans, but against Iraqis. Most media outlets will not show you what the terrorists are actually doing in Iraq. We will. more...

Posted by: Rusty at 03:44 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment
Post contains 673 words, total size 6 kb.

1 Yes, Rusty, every American adult should view these images so they can see the barbarians we are up against. If we sit around and wait 20 years and do nothing, then this is what will be going on here in the US. God forbid it!

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 05, 2005 04:46 PM (rUyw4)

2 I choose not to watch the videos. Just the same shit as before. Why see them again. More proof these people are not civilized. ARE THEY WORTH SAVING?

Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 06:06 PM (ywZa8)

3 Rooster - I totally get your point. At the same time, when a beheading becomes "old hat," then something is wrong. Each one should shock us and spur us into action. The images should strengthen our resolve to complete the task and send the murderers to their deaths.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at October 05, 2005 08:00 PM (Srmrz)

4 RomeoDelta: You're right. I just figure if the bastards figure I'm not going to view them maybe someone will be saved.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 08:44 PM (ywZa8)

5 Rush Limbaugh says America is at war, He is right on that count. However, Rush is a draft dodging drug addict that has no concept of 'war'. His foolish war is about 'ratings' and disagrrement between political ideology. Al-Qaeda and like MUSLIM organizations have sworn their life and children to the destruction of INFIDELS. That would be YOU, Mr. and Mrs. America! Visit HERE=> http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/contact1/pg4.html

Posted by: Beheading Videos at October 05, 2005 09:48 PM (tX99K)

6 And these "insurgents" are heros to millions, huh? What is wrong with this picture? I wonder what would happen if the media all of a sudden started calling a terrorist a terrorist? Maybe the world at large would get the idea .. finally. Beheaders are brutal, savage terrorists, period!

Posted by: Bubbe at October 05, 2005 10:23 PM (cbAi4)

7 Iraq's population out of Iraq NOW! eh? Yet again, the "root causes" of terrorism theory is completely blown by the senseless murder of their fellow Muslim neighbors. As usual coerced "confessions" are used to make the citizen confess to being an apostate which reaches it's sickening crescendo when the cutting off another Muslims head stops. I cannot comprehend the abject terror these men faced being lead out to their execution, knowing the brutal methods employed, and how long it takes to die, nor the pain inflicted upon them. may they find peace. Funny how you never see these images at a leftard rally, declaring the victories of the "minute men"

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 12:20 AM (CcXvt)

8 bunch of idiots killing their own people...and the worse part is that this *army's of god** whatever they call themselfs still find support from muslins?? when they goin to wake up and realize that they just wan to see blood they kill like 200 iraqis just to kill one american who is really killing their people us or them??

Posted by: realtouch at October 06, 2005 01:25 AM (SDgrr)

9 Dave: they'd probably be in a state of shock as soon as they started that last walk. As for the amount of time it takes to kill: have you ever read up on how kosher beef is slaughtered? A cut to the throat takes only a short moment to kill any creature. They're most likely dead long before the blade hit the bone. Not to mention that the windpipe was likely severed, the body under those conditions isn't going to sustain. And for all of those here that believe you're still alive for six seconds after being beheaded: consider that cutting off a finger can put a person into shock, getting your head cut off would probably do the same. Also dave, who ever said the left wing says we're winning? If anything that's more of a right wing state of thinking. The left consider this continuing battle a loss, another Nam. Realtouch: beheaded one's own citizenry is by no means new. The french (at the time considered the most civilized society) had beheadings. And yes, we're americans, we hate the french, but being intelligent americans we recognize that history repeats itself. The middle east is doing what all other societies have done in the past. This type of violence is infamous in history. And for all of you who would berate me for what i've just said: I've served in the IDF in the reserve unit Sar-El. My first base being Anatot which lies right on the border of the West Bank.

Posted by: WizrdKing at October 06, 2005 02:50 AM (xxmfk)

10 WizardKing: As you mentioned the French Revolution, You have most likely read the same litrature as I, that spoke of the head of the scientist that was rumored to have blinked thirteen times, after he said he would try to blink until he lost consciousness after decapitation. Truly a thought that kept me awake. Although your original assessment is correct, hypovolemic shock would most likely set in as soon as the head were severed. As for the Left, I was mentioning Micheal Moore's reference to the terrorists as "Minute men" as some of the left call them, or the "Iraqi Resistance" and why they ignore the blatant barbarism, you will never hear them mention it!

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 07:01 AM (CcXvt)

11 Wizrdking: My problem with your blog is as follows. (1) I cut my left middle finger off in a boat propeller once. IT HURT LIKE HELL. When they reattached it it HURT LIKE HELL. And for 6 weeks afterward in HURT LIKE HELL. Try it. (2) We slaughter animals all the time. Hogs and steers. Dead before the knife hits the bone. Bullshit! After trying the Jewish system I now shoot them between the eyes first to save the animal pain. Just Jewish propoganda to justify their cruel method of slaughter. What Jews do to animals is their business but don't feed me bullshit to justify it. I justify it as another cruelity brought about by religion. I don't fight against kosher butchering (butchering is a good word for it) because I figure mother nature is much more cruel. If you guys choose to dress funny and not eat pork chops I will fight for your right to be as you are. But don't feed me bullshit. I could change my mind.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 07:02 AM (M7kiy)

12 Wizardking: Just thought of something else that doesn't go down right. "BEING AN AMERICAN" You served in the IDF. Have you served in the United States Military? Hmmmmm. Is that like "being an American I served in the PLO". WEIRD!

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 07:12 AM (M7kiy)

13 oh, the Muslims were beheading people hundreds of years before France started, they've just never stopped. Mohammed himself was present at the mass beheading of a Jewish tribe in Medina. It will never be history to Islam unless they rewrite their Koran and the sections like: "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbeliever's in fight, smite at their necks; at length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind the captives firmly: therefore is the time for either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. " To name but a few.

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 07:12 AM (CcXvt)

14 Beheading videos: Ah! But Rush tells it like it is. He is a tool and has much value.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 07:15 AM (M7kiy)

15 Well I for one am glad to hear that the the terrorists have run into a wall. Between turning the corner,last throes, acts of desperation, et al I was beginning to think that our side was running low on positive meraphors. Rusty the converse view of your analysis id that the Army of Ansar now believes that poblic opinion is now so strongly behind them that they now will accept such videos. The vote on the constitution is coming up very soon after all the great things that were said about it "historic" the odds (English bookmakers) are lookung lomg, and a civil/religous war looking more possible. Will these United States decide to support one side over the other ? or actlike a referee and just try and keep them apart.A noble effort,peacekeeping, but it may make us a target for both sides, As far as journalists being shot; Rusty the only way to win this war is to show our moral superiorty. Rusty if we do start executing politically incottect/anti war journalists for not toeing the party line should we do videos also? Tp deter others? What about bloggers who defame these United States? Or politicans who vote against abuse and torture? What about bloggers who link to sites that show propoganda coming from the enemy? What about .........YOU !!!

Posted by: john Ryan at October 06, 2005 08:00 AM (ads7K)

16 Ryan I have a better one. WHAT ABOUT YOU!

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 08:23 AM (M7kiy)

17 Word of caution to the uninformed: these terrorists slowly behead their victims. They use knives. The victims can be heard trying to scream and breathe as the knife cuts and air rushes from their lungs. These are not men with swords who take the heads in one chop.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 06, 2005 09:18 AM (JQjhA)

18 John Ryan: You know what wins wars better than "Moral Superiority" ? actual firepower, and weapon superiority and the willingness to use it. The PC nature of this war, and the constant attempt to not offend delicate Muslim sensibilities, while allowing the label of "religion of peace" to be used constantly is really degrading the war effort.

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 10:03 AM (CcXvt)

19 Greyrooster, Sar-El is a multi-national volunteer reserve unit. It draws members from all around the globe. Sorry if i didn't clarify that earlier

Posted by: WizrdKing at October 06, 2005 12:00 PM (x8oLi)

20 John Ryan: fingers on home keys, please. And your yammering is getting on my nerves. Your constant blathering about "we have to keep the moral high ground" is duly noted. Mkay? How many times are you going to keep repeating the same mantra? At this point, we could descend much farther down the ladder of "morality" and still be leaps and bounds above the enemy. We can never reach the level of morality others have set for us. We're human. We make mistakes. We try to correct them. Morality will not win this war. They're idea of morality, and all those who support the "insurgency", is far removed from what ours is. They do not recognize that morality. What will win this war is killing the enemy and demoralizing all those who might consider joining the enemy. Period. Take a step outside your perfect little bubble of idealism and have a good hard look at what's going on in the world. And since you're so good at preaching morals, why don't you just head right on over to the middle east and preach to the jihadis and their supporters what "morality" is.

Posted by: Oyster at October 06, 2005 12:05 PM (YudAC)

21 Thank you for posting those heinous pictures. We get way too comfortable over here in the USA, just seeing anti-American images on TV. And the vast majority of Americans totally forget about 9-11 and forget about the true nature of those with whom we are at war.

Posted by: reverse_vampyr at October 06, 2005 02:11 PM (Ns5kk)

22 America is at war with itself, fools.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at October 07, 2005 05:57 AM (A5eqb)

23 Downing street Moron: I believe Al Sharpton 1st made that quote. Oh well! Birds of a feather say the same things together. What it be willie.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 07, 2005 10:19 AM (M7kiy)

24 The guy in the second picture looks like Downing Street Moron's daddy. His mommy has nappy hair. I guess he's what you call a black muslim. Ha! I just discovered the reason for his hatred of white America.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 07, 2005 10:23 AM (M7kiy)

25 At least we can take comfort from the fact that they were beheaded in an introspective, peaceful inner struggle, culturally sensitive sort of way. I want to hear Bush talk more about this religion of peace I keep hearing about.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 19, 2005 11:02 AM (0yYS2)

26 colobration with invader that what they deserve you forget that american killing thousand iraqi innocent and use the camical wapeon and use everything to take a free oil .that what they deserve die .....even no muslim japnees or comminist will make the same way to those colobration with invaders safi

Posted by: foula at November 30, 2005 07:01 AM (jEsFz)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

Leave a comment and show your support for this young lady's family.

Nothing about her sacrifice on our behalf overshadows those others who have given their lives for freedom, but a friend asked, and I answered. We honor them all here.

"But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end."

Posted by: Vinnie at 09:20 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 219 words, total size 1 kb.