IF ONLY LIBERALS HAD GOOD MEMORIES!

THIS PAST SUNDAY MANY OF THE INTERNET NEWS SITES HAD A HEADLINE WHICH BROUGHT BACK BAD MEMORIES. THE HEADLINE SCREAMED " HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CLAIMS U.S. MILITARY ABUSE IN IRAQ". THE ARTICLE FEATURED TESTIMONY TO A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE BY ATTORNEY JOHN SIFTON OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WHO ACCUSED THE MARINES INVOLVED IN THE FIRE FIGHT AT HADITHA, WHERE 14 IRAQUI CIVILIANS WERE KILLED, OF MURDER. HIS BASIS FOR THIS HEINOUS CHARGE IS A GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN WITH A CELL PHONE CAMERA BY LUCIAN READ. MR. SIFTON HAS NOT EVEN SEEN THE PICTURES, BUT BASES HIS CONCLUSION OF MURDER ON BLATANT HERESAY FROM IRAQIS AT THE SCEEN. THIS MAN ALSO WRITES FOR THE LEFTIST "AMERICAN PROSPECT" WHICH AT VARIOUS TIMES HAS CALLED PRESIDENT BUSH "ALTERNATELY FASCIST, INEPT, MENDACIOUS AND CLUELESS. THEY ALSO CALL THE "SWIFT BOAT VETERANS LIARS! MR. SIFTON IS CALLING NOT ONLY FOR TRIALS BUT CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS FOR THIS INCIDENT INVOLVING 14 PEOPLE. BUT HE DOESN'T WANT THE SERETARY OF DEFENSE INVOLVED. HE ALLEGES THAT THE SECRETARY AND THE WHITE HOUSE ARE RESPOSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPNED IN A WAR ZONE.
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NOT ONLY HAS THIS NITWHIT CONVIENENTLY FORGOTTEN THE BEHEADINGS AND MUTILATIONS OF OUR TROOPS BY THESE MUSLIM TERROISTS. HE HAS NO APPARENT KNOWLEDGE OR APPRECIATION FOR WHAT THE MARINE CORPS HAS DONE FOR OUR BELOVED COUNTRY. SOME SIXTY YEARS, AND 5 MONTHS AGO A FORCE OF 110,00 MARINES STORMED THE ISLAND OF IWO JIMA TO STRIKE THE FIRST BLOW AT PART OF JAPANESE TERRITORY. IN THIS BATTLE WHICH TOOK 36 DAYS AND COST THE LIVES OF 6821 MARINES, SAILORS AND SOLDIERS WITH THE KILLING OF OVER 20,000 JAPANESE, THERE WERE 26 MEDALS OF HONOR AWARDED FOR VALOR. 12 WERE AWARDED PSOSTHUMOUSLY. IN ALL THERE WERE 25,851 CASUALTIES COUNTING THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
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THE MOST MEMORABLE QUOTE FROM THOSE THAT WERE LEFT TO HONOR THE DEAD AND BURIED COMRADES IN ARMS WAS SPOKEN AT THE CEMETARY BY A RABBI NAMED LT. R. GETTELSON DURING THE MEMORIAL SERVICES. THE FOLLOWING WORDS WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT FROM A LENGTHY EULOGY. "THESE MEN HAD THE COURAGE AND STRENGTH TO GIVE THEIR LIVES FOR OURS. THEY PAID THE GREAT PRICE FOR FREEDOM. IF THAT FREEDOM IS LOST (IN THE FUTURE) THE UNFORGIVEABLE BLAME WILL BE OURS. THERE WILL BE THOSE AT HOME WHO WANT US TO TURN OUR BACKS IN SELFISH MOTIVATION ON THE REST OF HUMANITY, AND THUS SABOTAGE THE VERY PEACE FOR WHICH WE FOUGHT. TO THOSE WHO SAY APPEASEMENT IS BETTER THAN CRUSHING THEM. WE SAY NO! THIS THEIR SUFFERING, DEATH, AND THE SORROW OF THOSE WHO MOURN SHALL NOT BE IN VAIN! IF ONLY LIBERALS COULD LOOK BACK AT THE COURAGE THAT GAVE US THE FREEDOMS WE ENJOY TODAY, AND JOIN THE FIGHT TO ERADICATE FOR ALL TIME THE RADICAL MUSLIM THREAT. TRYING TO TEAR DOWN THE PUBLIC SUPPORT BY UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN BY THOSE WHO FEEL WE ARE IN A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!