…for our missing soldiers in Iraq. And a few new details emerge: U.S. troops have questioned hundreds of people and detained 11 in the search for three American soldiers feared captured by al-Qaida during a weekend ambush in an insurgent……

If AQ was expecting a response like that of the Brits, they ill be fatally surprised.

Does anyone else find it unacceptable that our president annouces our strategy to the bad guys months before it is in full effect? Why didn’t we just tell hitler when and where we were going to invade Europe?

georgej on May 14, 2007 at 3:26 PM

Thanks for that report, I just can’t stand going over to those other sites. I can just imagine what they write, and then when I read the quotes, I always underestimate their anger, hatred, and stupidity.

Like you, I am waiting for a Dem to stand up for our troops. But they can’t.

Standing with you on your last sentence.

What they did, in other words, was leverage an unrelated atrocity for propaganda value, as an excuse for their own savagery.

And the liberal media is happy to help them along with free press and global coverage.

{sigh}

There still aren’t enough coalition and Iraqi boots on the ground.

CliffHanger on May 14, 2007 at 12:55 PM

The problem does not lay in the number of troops it is ROE.

Tony737 on May 14, 2007 at 3:54 PM

agreed.

If you want your soldiers’ safety, do not search for them.

And what kind of message would that send if we did?

Right now the message AQ is getting is, “You kidnap troops, we will be coming for you! And we don’t give up so easily!”

The message to the rest of the troops is, “This ever happens to you, we will be coming for you! And we don’t give up so easily!”

I can’t see anything being worse for morale than kidnapped troops, unless its sitting around doing nothing while polititians draft strongly worded, non-binding resolutions that won’t even pass.

I hope that the military does NOT fall for AQ’s threat to harm the men unless they cease searching because as Tantor notes, Al Qaeda captives do not survive the experience.

Yesterday I openly complained that our leftist commentators here at Hot Air are either silent on this or taking pot shots at Bush using the “irony” of the situtation.

Nonfactor didn’t like that assessment of him, personally, and the others. Too bad. Not only do I stand by my accusation that liberals really HATE the troops, but that they are even celebrating their capture.

From several DU posters in a thread about the capture (language “sanitized”]:

“When will anyone in this administration learn that what goes around comes right around to hit you even harder?”

“If these soldiers are mistreated or killed, it will all come crumbling down on George Bush’s head. Believe me, it will be the tipping point.”

“You may be right about that… n/t”

“I hope you’re right but a previous instance didn’t undo B*sh.”

“I Don’t Think So. Unless their captors make sure that they are being shown the same level of treatment that was given to the prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.”

“the sick thing is if they torture our guys, we cannot complain. We torture their guys, so I guess that they are entitled to return in the same fashion. This is why we should not do it. “Moral High Ground”, remember that idea folks? We’ve lost it.”

“chances are it is an Iraqi guerrilla group that would be who the US is fighting. This al-quaeda in Iraq is bullsh*t.”

One DU-er wrote: “At least we dont behead our prisioners.” TThe immediate response was: “No, we just shove them off bridges Or rape them then murder their families for being witnesses. Yep, we really hold the moral high ground here. Wrong is wrong. PERIOD.”

Note the tone of self righteousness, of denial, of moral relativism, and hope that they can use this to undermine the President.

Then there are our “friends” at Huffington Post. CComments are from two threads on this topic.

“The US military ‘believes’ that because they just want to keep the shitforbrains at home foaming at the mouth.

Who cares who abducted them? They don’t belong there because they are invaders and occupiers.

If any other country did what the Useless States has done to Iraq, the America I once knew would be all over them. ” [More from this poster, PissedoffVietVet, below.]

“Al Qaeda, Sunnis, Shias – what f*cking difference does it make. They’re missing and probably suffering miserably.
Another Mother’s Day present from the biggest mother****** of them all – G.W.B.
May Bush suffer from a painful disease with no known cure. It’s the very least God can do for us. ”

“Now lets see 9%cheney has been in Iraq mmmmmmmmmmmm.
All of the sudden Al Qaeda is big on the news with soldiers abductions mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Our soldiers are bush/9%cheney’s toy soldiers.”

In a reply to another poster, there is this classic bt DonR equating our troops to pedophiles:

“Hey Gumby I’m a Dem.
By: wadenelson1 on May 14, 2007 at 01:28pm ”

What you are is an Assmeric*nt – why don’t you and your cousin Gumbo STFU and get your fat asses over to Iraq and go find your 3 paedophile buddies
By: DonR on May 14, 2007 at 01:39pm ”

and then there is this one, a classic by Huffie standards as it blames Bush, calls Bush an AWOL traitor, and calls for Bush’s execution is as fine an example of BDS as I’ve seen in a long time:

excuse me…..huh…..what?
is this the same al qaeda that is from 9/11?
i mean what was that, about 6 years ago?
wasn’t codpiece commander gonna get their leader osama bin laden DEAD OR ALIVE?
am i in a coma or what…what has the codpiece done to catch osama and the al qaedieans? isn’t osama and most of the 9/11 terrorist from saudi arabia?????
WHAT THE F*CK HAS CODPIECE BEEN DOING ????
WHAT the f*ck do the repukes think they voted for him for? When the f*ck will the repukes wake up and try to protect our soldiers?

omg…i need to calm down and pray.

p.s. bushie is a DESERTER/TRESONOUS chicken and should be impeached and imprisoned (and maybe HUNG (HANGED BY THE NECK TILL DEAD – JUST LIKE SADDAM.)

p.s. it’s idiotdesertergoatboy, stooooopid.
p.p.s. trolls, phuc u.
By: itsbushstupid on May 14, 2007 at 11:53am

Finally, one “PissedoffVietVet” who posted several comments, (including one I cited above, wrote:

Bottom line is they are invaders in a country that never was a threat…….and whatever happens to them is punishment for that.

Imagine a couintry of 25 million where 150,000 Nazi troops are and only about ONE of TWO speak Arabic.

How has the advantage? Its their backyard and there are invaders in it. They should do whats necessary to rid the scum from their back yard.

To be fair, Huffie has some posters pointing the finger to the Democrats and the left for insisting that there are no Al Qaeda in Iraq. But once again, moral relativism, Bush-Hate, and self righteousness waft from Huffie like the maloderous air of a sewerage treatment plant.

I didn’t spend any time at KOS. Why bother? It’s all the same.

Finally, I cannot find as of now, A SINGLE DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR THE NOMINATION MAKING A SUPPORTIVE COMMENT or expressing concern about the safety of these men. But let’s not criticize their partriotism…..

My accusation against nonfactor, and the rest of the left stand!

On Saturday, a U.S. patrol was ambushed near Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi soldier acting as their interpreter was killed in the ambush, and three soldiers are missing. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), an al Qaeda……

If I remember my Geneva Conventions, it’s expressly prohibited that the lives of prisoners be used as bargaining chips by a holding force against the opposing force.

What!?! Al-Qaeda not honoring the Geneva Convention? I don’t believe my eyes. Next you’ll be saying they have no intention of honoring the Hague Convention either. If only we shut down Gitmo, I’m sure they would come around….

If there’s any doubt that Al Queda and similar forces are expressly defying the Geneva Conventions, let it be removed.

Lock ‘em up in Gitmo if a bullet doesn’t find them first.

My prayers go with the captured soldiers and their families.

Any time Al Qaeda makes a threat that we should stop something, it is a sign of weakness on their part, a weakness we should massively exploit.

Last Saturday, an insurgent attack left four US soldiers and an Iraqi translator dead, and three other soldiers missing.In the intervening time, Al Qeada has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is playbook AQ, and my prayers are with the abduct…

God bless our men and their families, I pray the only sacrifices are from the other side.