An apology from a Three Star Marine Corps General...
ebra...@yahoo.com
This "Letter of Apology" was written by 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 abhor 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 Yassar 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 noncombatant 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 village 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 these 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 burnt amongst 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
Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret)
PagCal
Poor soul - he'll never get anything else right in his entire life
unless he starts with this fundamental.
Jeffrey Turner
> An apology from a Three Star Marine Corps General...
That's one sorry-ass general. Probably a good thing he's retired.
--Jeff
--
We can have democracy or we can have
great wealth concentrated in the hands
of the few. We cannot have both.
--Justice Louis Brandeis
Jag...@hotmail.com
ebra...@yahoo.com wrote:
> An apology from a Three Star Marine Corps General...
>
> This "Letter of Apology" was written by Lieutenant General Chuck
> Pitman, US Marine Corps, Retired:
>
>
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THAT should have told you immediately. Advocating war crimes.
Don't think so.
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The letter of apology is an urban legend.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pitman.asp
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Something tells me "ebrainsh" already knew that.
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Phoney general's letter from a phoney American.
Goes with phoney war from a phoney president.
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Jag Pop
"...just a goddamn piece of paper"
-Bush, November 2005
*us*
>ebra...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> An apology from a Three Star Marine Corps General...
>>
>> This "Letter of Apology" was written by Lieutenant General Chuck
>> Pitman, US Marine Corps, Retired:
>>
>> I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
>.
>THAT should have told you immediately. Advocating war crimes.
>Don't think so.
>.
>The letter of apology is an urban legend.
>
>http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pitman.asp
>.
>Something tells me "ebrainsh" already knew that.
>.
>.
>Phoney general's letter from a phoney American.
>Goes with phoney war from a phoney president.
>.
>.
>Jag Pop
>"...just a goddamn piece of paper"
>-Bush, November 2005
Thanks for posting this.