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> > > >Subject: Chuck Pitman, Lt. Gen., US Marine Corps (Ret.) ~ " Apology > >A Letter of Apology from Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman, >US Marine Corps, Retired: > >"For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an >issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will harbor the >stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee >will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern >day massacre. > >I humbly offer my opinion here: > >I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and >sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of >Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.). > >I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists >came after 9/11. > >I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs. > >I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor >under savage dictatorships. > >I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth. > >I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their >Religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media. > >I am sorry that Yasir Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country >and high-jacked the Palestinian "cause." > >I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more >than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians. > >I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest >financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely >wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems. > >I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own >brainwashed masses do not understand any of this (from the >misleading vocal elements of our society, like radical professors, >CNN and the NY TIMES). > >I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out >of the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common >folk suffered. > >I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide >bombers upon their death. > >I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they >will receive 72 virgins in "paradise." > >I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, >children, the elderly and other non-combatant civilians are >legitimate targets. > >I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang >rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own >making. > >I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any >other group. > >I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize >control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state. > >I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah. > >I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy >Site." > >I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World >Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas >Greek >Orthodox Church -- one of our Holy Sites. > >I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS >Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg >and >Daniel Pearl, etc...etc! > >I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized >viallage in Africa. > >America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those >responsible because that is what we do. > >We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move >on. That's one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don't hide >this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an >apology. > >Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the >news, we were like--so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few >prisoners. Sure, it was wrong! Sure, it dramatically hurts our >cause, >but until captured, we were trying to kill those same prisoners. Now >we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated? > >Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own >people killed, mutilated and burned among a joyous crowd of >celebrating Fallujahans. > >If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a >long wait! > >You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins! > > >Chuck Pitman, Lt. Gen., US Marine Corps (Ret.) >Semper Fi > > |
