Open Letter to Al-Qa'ida

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From a Marine officer on the Iraqi warfront with Jihadistan…

(This is an open letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, “Islamic
Response,” and the rest of the so-called al-Qa’ida “insurgents”
in Iraq and elsewhere. We don’t have an e-mail address for these
swine – though we are closing in on their snail-mail address,
but we are forwarding this letter to Federalist Patriots around the
world in the hope you good people will forward it to as many other
Patriots as possible to rally prayer and support for our fellow
Marine, Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun. Should these al-Qa’ida pigs
spill his blood, we want them to rest assured that the contents
of this letter will eventually be nailed to their foreheads. Thank
you for your assistance.)

To al-Qa’ida terrorists in Iraq:

I see that you have captured a U.S. Marine, and that you plan
to cut off his head if your demands are not met. Big mistake.
Before you carry out your threat I suggest you read up on Marine
Corps history. The Japanese tried the same thing on Makin
Island and in a few other places during World War Two, and came
to regret it. Go ahead and read about what then happened to the
mighty Imperial Army on Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. They paid
full price for what they did, and you will too.

You look at America and you see a soft target, and to a large
extent you are right. Our country is filled with a lot of spoiled
children who drive BMWs, sip decaf lattes and watch ridiculous
reality TV shows. They are for the most part decent, hard working
citizens, but they are soft. When you cut off Nick Berg’s head
those people gasped, and you got the media coverage you sought,
and then those people went back to their lives. This time it
is different. We also have a warrior culture in this country,
and they are called Marines. It is a brotherhood forged in the
fire of many wars, and the bond between us is stronger than
blood. While it is true that this country has produced nitwits
like John Kerry, Michael Moore, Howard Dean and Jane Fonda who
can be easily manipulated by your gruesome tactics, we have
also produced men like Jason Dunham, Brian Chontosh and Joseph
Perez. If you don’t recognize those names you should. They are all
Marines who distinguished themselves fighting to liberate Iraq,
and there will be many more just like them coming for you.

Before the current politically correct climate enveloped our
culture one of the recruiting slogans of our band of brothers was
“The Marine Corps Builds Men.” You will soon find out just how
true that is. You, on the other hand, are nothing but a bunch of
women. If you were men you would show your faces, and take us on
in a fair fight. Instead, you are cowards who hide behind masks
and decapitate helpless victims. If you truly represented the
interest of the Iraqi people you would not be ambushing those who
come to your country to repair your power plants, or sabotage the
oil pipelines which fuel the Iraqi economy. Your agenda is hate,
plain and simple.

When you raise that sword over your head I want you to remember
one thing. Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is not alone as he kneels
before you. Every Marine who has ever worn the uniform is there
with him, and when you strike him you are striking all of us. If
you think the Marines were tough on you when they were cleaning
out Fallujah a few weeks ago you haven’t seen anything yet. If you
want to know what it feels like to have the Wrath of God called
down upon you then go ahead and do it. We are not Turkish truck
drivers, or Pakistani laborers, or independent contractors hoping
to find work in your country. We are the United States Marines,
and we will be coming for you

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Here songzzz, why don’t you send this to that supposed officer:

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. . . If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
Matthew 5:44-48

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:14-21

Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 6:35-37

seekgod.org/message/forgiveness.html

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MT:

Hahaha I did not know that you were into satire. Also, when did you become a devout Christian? Are you? Do you understand the history of Christianity? Do you understand the concept of a just war? Do you also understand that the police will no longer be protecting you or your family because you will be able to turn the other cheek for wouldbe robbers and rapists. Just post a sign outside your door. I am sure that you will have ample opportunity to revel in your new willingness to sacrifice. Go ahead. Your choice. But leave the rest of us to deal with threats as we see fit. Take out Fallujah now. Send forces to destabilize Iran so that they have to spend more time worrying about things at home and less time destabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan. Ditto for Syria, but still the plan is to roll out of Iraq and through Syria to make our exit. Raise that sword high.

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Fred, just make sure you dont trip and impale yourself on that sword, the world is awaiting that event.
:smiley: :smiley:

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Isn’t that like military intelligence?

reasonable attorney fees?

jumbo shrimp?

compassionate conservative?

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[quote=“songzzz”] From a Marine officer on the Iraqi warfront with Jihadistan…

You, on the other hand, are nothing but a bunch of women. If you were men you would show your faces, and take us on in a fair fight. [/quote]

Are there no women in the U.S. Marines? What a silly thing to say.

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and lets be honest, when has anybody been interested in fair fights during war. It’s not like you would expect the US to only use obsolete old fashioned weaponary to make any conflict they were in fairer.

PS Fred
Why is it the ‘Christian Right’ who feel compeled by God to push their social values on everybody else, feel so free to ignore most of the new testament?

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I don’t now Butcher Boy:

I guess it is sort of like the atheists and multiculturalists and humanists who keep pushing and have pushed all their beliefs on everyone else? Sorta like that you mean? or the communist and socialist and environmental fanatics in our institutions of higher learning that have pushed their beliefs on all their students? Could be? Sorta might be? What do you think?

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Fred

I think you slightly misread my post but I understand what you mean.Maybe everybody is at heart, hypocritical scum. But appeal to the Christian God does seem particulary strong in US politics, with many of the people professing a strong faith to the electorate then carrying out policies and/or personal lives that don’t seem to fit well with their professed faith. (On both sides of the Political spectrum).Regarding higher education, my experience was one where the academics tended to argue against what the students said in order to get them to think more about the issues. This led to them agruing on behalf of the likes of Nozick, Friedman etc (though never Thatcher - that would be too much).

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But why my dear Butcher Boy were there no students to take up the cudgels on behalf of Friedman? I mean I would expect half the student population should have chosen his side so why did your professors need to take his position (and I wonder how they defended it? willing to lose to show that communism and socialism were the truly superior ways?)

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Devout Christians can be found in all political spectrums. Also, not all Christians subscribe to the concept of a “Just War”. There are many Christians who are pacifists and many Christians who serve proudly in the military. There is no simple answer as to what is right - it’s a faith, not a science. Introspection, awareness, and a desire to help others is the most important motivation. Dogmatism is less helpful…

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Why would you expect half the student population to take Friedman’s side?
Actually I don’t believe that there was one communist Professor who taught me. Mild socialists yes. Mild conservatives, yes. People like you who only know how to question the opposing side and fail to think critically about their own views? Fortunately not. They were more rigorous and humble than that.

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Are you sure that they were willing to oppose and question? Why then is the faculty predominantly Left wing at x y and z university? Face it, much as you may laugh at the Christian Right for being “brainwashed” and for trying to impose its values on society, aren’t “right-thinking liberals” trying to do precisely the same thing? You just assume that one is wrong and the other is right because that is what you have been programmed to believe.

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I never said that the Christian Right were brain washed. You seem determined to find an argument in what I have said and seem to be seeing things that are not there in order to allow you to argue. I just noted the seeming inconsitancy between their faith in a religion that preaches tolerance, turn the other cheek, mercy etc and some of their sacred policies ie Capital Punisment (which does seem to go with the Old Testament but not the New, which is where Christianity comes from). I beleive if you would care to read my previous post again you will discover that I noted that both sides of the political spectrum were affected by this faith/policy/personal life gap, so I really don’t get your last couple of sentences.

As to the question you pose in your first sentence - well just because my experiences at university don’t equate with your belief in how the world is does not mean I am wrong or that I misunderstood what was going on at university. Maybe your persecution complex and the way it shapes your view of how the world is needs to be re-thought. As i said before, I was lucky that I was taught be people who recognised the value of critically assessing one’s own beliefs. I guess you’re unable to grasp that concept.

This really is lame stuff, I expect better from you fred.

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Sorry BB:

But you are wrong. Both The Magnificent Tigerman and myself have posted statistics showing party affiliation of professors at major universities in the US. Few if any vote Republican much less are registered Republican voters.

Why get down on a few Christians who do not practice what they preach? Everyone likes to point out the hypocrisy of their supposed intolerance, but what about the Left? The same hypocrisy and lack of tolerance is more than evident so why single out Christians? Try getting a Republican speaker on campus and they will be shouted down, or they will not even get an invite. How is it acceptable to yell and scream at Republican events to shout down speakers or deface Republican promotional materials at institutions of higher learning? Does this show adequate understanding and acceptance of multiculturalism? Are dissident voices allowed to be heard? I don’t think so.

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[quote=“fred smith”]Sorry BB:

Both The Magnificent Tigerman and myself have posted statistics showing party affiliation of professors at major universities in the US.[/quote]

  1. I didn’t go to uni in the US.
  2. Just because they aren’t registered republican or don’t vote republican, this does not mean they lack the academic rigor to teach all sides of any issue and challenge students to critically asses their own views whatever they may be.
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(responding from vacation in sunny San Diego!)

Hi Fred. I don’t know how long it’s been since you’ve been to college, but statistics or no, my own university experience bellies your assertions. I was a general lit/poli sci double major at UCSD, and of all my profs I can only think of one who fit your stereotype. His name was Djikstra (or some bizarre spelling like that) and he wrote a book on the femme fatale archetypal image in 19th and 20th century literature and art. He was a genuine example of the close-minded liberal who literally gave out bad grades for points of view in opposition to his own, and reduced everything to sexual, racial, and class polemics (although on the plus side he did write an interesting book, which of course we were required to buy!)

The rest of my profs didn’t prostelatize for any particular agenda. You probably don’t consider me capable of making an objective judgement call on that, but please keep in mind that when I was in college I was a mildly-right leaning moderate whose first ever vote was for Bush senior in the '88 election… so I was fairly sensitive to liberal brain-washing! Anyway, by and large what we were judged on was our ability to hash out a cogent and provocative argument, backed up with solid research. That simple.

And by the way, as I remember, the Young Republicans or whatever their association was called were always visibly and rather vocally present alongside the Gay and Lesbian Association, the Anime club, the Society for Creative Anachronisms, and the rest.