1. shloimashlemazel said:

Lieberman spoke for us all (Dem or Rep)!

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Who's really owed an apology?

Friday, May 7th, 2004

It's going to get a lot worse. As if Army reservist Lynndie England's little souvenir-of-Iraq funhouse photos were not already destined to be the official Face of America in the Arab world for decades, there are piles of more pictures - and videos, yet - that are even more sickening.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Congress yesterday that he's seen some of them, and that it will be a very bad thing if they get into general circulation for all the world to blanch at. Which, of course, they assuredly will. The genie is out of the bottle.

Uncharacteristically humble as he sits in the epicenter of a catastrophic American moment, the secretary added his own voice to the chorus of breast-beating apologies that has suddenly become the bedrock of foreign policy. He even offered "compensation" to Lynndie England's prisoners, which, frankly, seems more apologetic than is necessary. These guys, it is useful to remember, were not sitting in Abu Ghraib just because they were driving on expired licenses.

Which is a point that was not lost on Sen. Joe Lieberman. Amid the wringing of hands - amid condemnation even from the Vatican - Lieberman refreshingly focused on fundamentals:

"The behavior by Americans at the prison in Iraq is, as we all acknowledge, immoral, intolerable and un-American ... I cannot help but say, however, that those responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, never apologized. Those who have killed hundreds of Americans in uniform in Iraq, working to liberate Iraq and protect our security, have never apologized. And those who murdered and burned and humiliated four Americans in Fallujah a while ago never (apologized)....

That's worth remembering as we scourge ourselves. Meanwhile, let's also remember the rest of Lieberman's wisdom: "I hope as we go about this investigation we do it in a way that does not dishonor the hundreds of thousands of Americans in uniform who are a lot more like Pat Tillman and Americans that are not known, like Army National Guard Sgt. Felix Delgreco, of Simsbury, Conn., who was killed in action a few weeks ago, that we not dishonor their service or discredit the cause that brought us to send them to Iraq, because it remains one that is just and necessary."

2. Rick said:

i cannot believe u fukin americans went to someone elses country in a fake fukin war to pretend and help steal there god goven oil, bush u pussy u beef was with saddam, not the daughters mothers and children of iraq, u are just trying to finish what daddy couldnt, go suk on your thumb. Think about your children, u will be the most hated president ever, im putting u in my books as a hitler, ur no better that saddam, imagine america was IRAQ, and they where ur daughters and sisters. Americas makes me sick, and now that the rest of the woorld knows you guys are just a bunch of perverted fat pigs it will be an easier fight for any man. Do you think with what you have done there is going to be less terrorism? because of these acts you have created thousands of so called terrorists. I am ashamed to be accosiated to america. Fukin brat. God will punish you, or the screams of the women u destroyed will...