Yet ANOTHER example from the religion of Peace.
Scratch
pets. All this from the religion of peace that the Left is so happy to
defend. These thugs and murders have no respect for any kind of life.
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U.S. forces rely on dogs to detect bombs in Iraq. Insurgents rig them
with explosives.
Four U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Aug 10, 2005
By Borzou Daragahi
Times Staff Writer
August 10, 2005
BAGHDAD -- These are the dogs of war.
At a checkpoint leading to the U.S.-protected Green Zone, Gordy stands
sentry. The affable Belgian Malinois has a nose finely tuned to detect
the nitrates, plastic explosives, gunpowder and detonation cords that
suicide bombers use to blow up people.
On a barren stretch of road in northern Iraq, a dog rigged with
explosives approaches a group of Iraqi police officers. Detonated by
remote control, the bomb tears the dog apart but doesn't harm the cops.
In a war where the line between civilian and soldier is blurred, even
man's best friend has been caught up in the combat. U.S. forces hail
their trained dogs as heroes, but to insurgents, canines provide the
means for a more sinister goal.
Iraqi police cite the recent use of dogs rigged with explosive devices
in Latifiya, just south of Baghdad, in Baqubah in central Iraq and in
and around the northern city of Kirkuk.
Some Iraqis are horrified by the ethics of dragging the animal world
into a human conflict.
"How can they use these lovely pets for criminal and murderous acts?"
asked Rasha Khairir, 25, an employee of a Baghdad stock brokerage. "A
poor dog can't refuse what they are doing with him because he can't
think and decide."
Despite a common prejudice in the Muslim world against dogs, which are
considered unclean, even the most virulent clerical opponents of the
U.S. presence in Iraq have decried the use of canines as proxies in the war.
Abdel Salam Kubaisi, a spokesman for the Muslim Scholars Assn., a
hard-line Sunni Arab clerical organization sympathetic to insurgents,
called the practice un-Islamic. "Our religion does not permit us to hurt
animals," he said, "neither by using them as explosive devices nor in
any other manner."
U.S. troops extol the virtues of their canine allies in the war against
the insurgents.
"Dogs are vital in Iraqi counterinsurgency efforts," said Staff Sgt. Ann
Pitt, 35, of Buffalo, N.Y., a U.S. Army dog handler based near the
southern city of Nasiriya.
"We have many items to help us do our mission, but I don't think we have
a better detection tool than a dog," said Pitt, who cares for Buddy,
another Belgian Malinois, a dog similar to a German shepherd. "These
dogs are amazing. They are more dependable and effective than almost
anything we have available to us."
The Army has deployed dogs since World War I to locate trip wires, track
enemies, stand guard at base perimeters and search tunnels for
explosives or booby traps.
Even these dogs weren't always treated kindly. Of 4,300 dogs sent to
Vietnam, 2,000 were handed over to the South Vietnamese army and 2,000
were put to sleep. Only 200 managed to make it home, said Ron Aiello,
Vietnam War-era dog handler who runs U.S. War Dog, a 1,100-member
Burlington, N.J., organization.
His group set up a website, http://www.uswardogs.org , to raise funds
for a memorial to honor the dogs and their handlers.
In Iraq, dogs like Gordy and Buddy are posted at checkpoints and at
entrances to government buildings.
They sniff for explosives among reporters' equipment at news conferences
and passengers' bags at Baghdad's international airport.
"What we do is prevent people from getting killed," said Artwell
Chibero, Gordy's 29-year-old Zimbabwean handler, an employee of a
private security firm hired by the Defense Department.
Dogs have 25 times more smell receptors than humans, Pitt said.
"We smell spaghetti sauce and we think, 'Oh, the spaghetti sauce smells
good,' " Pitt said. "To a dog, they would smell the tomatoes, the
onions, the basil, oregano. They smell all the odors individually."
Insurgents have long stuffed roadside bombs into the carcasses of
animals. But Iraqi security officials say they increasingly worry about
the use of live animals.
"Dogs have been used in many areas by insurgents throughout Iraq" to
carry explosive devices, said Noori Noori, inspector-general at the
Interior Ministry. "They used mentally retarded people for operations
during the elections, so why wouldn't they use animals?"
Last year in Ramadi, in the vast desert west of the capital, insurgents
dispatched a booby-trapped donkey toward a U.S.-run checkpoint around
sunset. "As one of the soldiers tried to stop it, the donkey exploded,"
said resident Mohammed Yas, 45. The only casualty was the donkey.
"Before, they used to use car bombs. Now they are using people and
animals," said Col. Adnan Jaboori, a spokesman for the interior
minister. "They are finding new ways to use remote-control technology."
The daily newspaper Al Mada recently published an editorial cartoon
showing an insurgent who strongly resembled Saddam Hussein trying to
persuade a dog to strap on a belt bomb to advance the cause of the Baath
Party, which once ruled Iraq.
"It is such a simple task," the insurgent tells the terrified dog. "All
you have to do is to put on this explosives belt, repeat the party's
slogans, and may Allah have mercy on your father's soul!"
Dave Thompson
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> They murder children rape and beat their women now they blowup their pets.
> All this from the religion of peace that the Left is so happy to defend.
The left, middle, and rational right don't believe any religion should be
defended. Unfortunately the religious right not only feels their religion
should be defended, it should be supported by our government at the expense
of all other religions and other faiths should be attacked and wiped out.
Diversity, liberty, and free thought have always been enemies of the
religious right because with them they might have to compete fairly for
minds and spirits of the potential faithful.
Curt
> pets. All this from the religion of peace that the Left is so happy to
> defend. These thugs and murders have no respect for any kind of life.
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> U.S. forces rely on dogs to detect bombs in Iraq. Insurgents rig them
> with explosives.
Remember when we were training dolphins to blow up enemy subs? Who knows, we
may still be doing it. Navy program, train the dolphin to swim to the sub
and "tap" something on the side of it? In training, the "something" was a
dummy bomb, and the dolphin got a fish every time it successfully tapped.
In an actual war, well, there wouldn't be a fish afterwards.
Curt
Scratch
So is that a shallow attempt at understanding and condoning what the
murders in Iraq does with their pet dogs?
Curt
Man, are you ever going to get it? You cut-and-paste these things that are
supposed to somehow show that Muslims are worse people than we are. "See?
They commit rape! See? They threaten to kill their enemies! See? They blow
up poor dumb animals! See? We feed these Gitmo prisoners orange-glazed
chicken!"
It's not about they're somehow worse people than we are. Everyone, us
included, has the capacity to be bad. Everyone, including us, has done bad
things. We're right now in the middle of doing some Very Bad Things that are
going to cost us for years to come. And here you are cut-and-pasting some
garbage about blowing up dogs. Well, sure, blowing up dogs is a bad thing.
If the Chinese army came and occupied your country, maybe you'd send a
bomber dog out towards them too, huh? Maybe you'd bury a bomb hoping to blow
up a Chinese truck? I like to think I would.
Let's revisit, shall we?
> >>They murder children rape and beat their women now they blowup their
> >>pets. All this from the religion of peace that the Left is so happy to
> >>defend. These thugs and murders have no respect for any kind of life.
"They murder children"
We've dropped bombs on plenty of children. Probly killed and maimed more
than all the suicide bombers. Sure, we did it for reasons, good reasons in
some cases. But to their parents, those kids are just as blown up.
"rape"
We've been doing plenty of rape, apparently, at Abu Ghraib and probably
elsewhere too. Can't wait for those pictures to come out, can you?
"beat their women"
Son, I work at a 911 center. There's plenty of women-beating going on here.
For exactly the same reason as it goes on over there.
"now they blowup their pets"
And we train dolphins to blow up.
"All this from the religion of peace that the Left is so happy to defend."
Well, the left has a better history of defending religions than the right,
who only defends one.
"These thugs and murders have no respect for any kind of life."
Uh, yeah, that's how you can tell they're thugs and murderers.
Curt
Curt