All Is Not Fair In Love And War!

A few minutes ago I watched the Eric Berg video. For those of you who have been under a rock, Berg was the American who was in Iraq building communication towers when he was kidnapped last month. In the Berg video his captors are seen denouncing the US and its treatement of Iraqi prisoners. Finally, in the last couple of minutes of the 5+ minute video Berg is beheaded and his head is shown to the camera and then set on his body.

The video is not so much gory as it is disturbing when you think of what is happening and see the expression on Berg's face. I won't link to it but if you must see it it is out there on the Internet. But what disturbs me more than seeing a human being being decapitated is the reaction to it and the reaction to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

A couple of weeks ago pictures of Amercian soldiers putting Iraqi prisoners in compromising positions came out. You would have thought we had committed the greatest atrocity to the world since Hitler. Okay, I don't think it was the right thing to do by these American soldiers, but look at what the Iraqi captors do.

There is all this talk of the Geneva Convention and of ousting Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, but why? Did Rumsfeld parade a bunch of Iraqi prisoners around naked? Hell no. And make no mistake about it, I do not like Rumsfeld and I am against this entire war.

We have a bunch of soldiers over in Iraq who can't be feeling all that welcome. These people are shot at, killed and maimed and terrorized daily. Doesn't it just stand to reason that the frustration they are feeling would manifest itself in some unusual fashion? These liberals who are calling for Rumsfelds head are just playing politics. In fact, that dickhead John Kerry has gone so far as to name a list of people he thinks should replace Rumsfeld. Not surprising that Bill Clinton's Sec. of Defense Cohen was on there, or that John "Am I a Republican or a Democrat?" McCain is on the list. (See my article on McCain in a previous post.)

The knee jerk reaction to every little thing is just maddening. And politicians aren't alone. Dumbasses I know jump to conclusions knowing none of the facts, be it about this subject or some other. Like I said, I don't condone what our people did to some Iraqi prisoners, but how do you discipline them after seeing the Berg video? And if they see the video, how do you expect them, as human beings to not carry out a bit of their own brand of justice? And finally, why are we honoring the Geneva Convention rules when it is clear our enemy is not?