Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Boylan and Eska-Thedra watch too many sitcoms?

One article and a letter to the editor in your last issue motivated this reply.

First let’s take Michael Boylan’s piece on Zell Miller. It obviously bothers young Mr. Boylan that Zell Miller has the guts to break away from a Democratic Party that has drifted to the extreme left.

He also forgets that it was not also Mr. Berg’s brutal execution, but the killing, dragging, and hanging of charred bodies of four contractors whose only crime was to perform security so that a food convoy would get to the city where the food was needed. I would suggest he watch the video.

Please allow me to remind all of us that prisoners in that prison are not common criminals but terrorists. Frankly I think we should have applied the rules of the Geneva convention that calls for honoring the rules ONLY to combatants that are wearing a uniform, not civilian garb. By the Geneva convention combatants in civilian clothes are NOT protected and could have been killed on the spot.

The second is Ms. Eska-Thedra’s letter. She suggests that Iraq did not threaten the U.S. Then can we assume that all that gas used by Iraq to kill Kurds, Iranians, and the latest exploded rocket that left residue of Sarin was just for local consumption? Had this rocket been exploded with the weapon it was designed to deliver it, the four liters of Sarin would have killed 60,000 people.

Then there is the suggestion that we start by capturing bin Laden. Does Ms. Eska-Thedra forget that not once but three times bin Laden was offered on a silver plate by Sudan to our then-president Clinton? The deal was negotiated by Mansour Ijaz and was turned down by the Clinton administration. Then we have Ms. Gorelick’s document that enforced the building of a communication wall between our intelligence agencies during that same regime.

I want to affirm my belief that Islamic Extremists is not a “hackneyed and incorrect term.” It is the proper name for these people whose only purpose is to destroy our “infidel” religious beliefs and our way of life. I cannot imagine living in the world these people want for us.

I also seem to remember that there was more than one video of an American beheaded by these “insurgents,” the media’s name for these cruel and vicious folks, a man whose last name was Pearl. Perhaps Ms. Eska-Thedra should review both videos.

There are close to 170 wars going on in the world today, all but two of them involving the same Islamic terrorists that we are trying to wipe out in Iraq and Afghanistan to lower the chance that we may experience another attack in this country that will make 9/11 look like child’s play.

[I am] a survivor of the atrocities of the butcher of Havana’s regime and [was] there as it was happening in front of my own eyes, and tortures that make what happened in the Iraqi prison pale in comparison to what I experienced and saw. Where is the outrage?

Win or lose, George Bush will go down as somebody who tried to act in our behalf and was fought by the compliant media, the Democrats who will do anything to win the election, and the big part of the population that stays uninformed while watching nothing but sitcoms, “American Idols” and all the many other things that ignore the signs of the real danger we are in. May God bless our wonderful country!

Gerard Jansen

gtm@gerardjansen.com

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