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04/02/2004: "Interesting contrast"
Here are two quotes regarding the gruesome events in Fallujah. Guess where they come from:
The spectacle of the mutilated remains of four American contractors being paraded through the streets of Fallujah will have turned the stomachs of all who saw this savagery on their television screens. This was mob violence at its worst.
Those who participated in the butchery must be punished. The mob may oppose the Coalition occupation. They may support the insurgents. They may count the death of soldiers as victories. But there is no understanding the brutish slaughter of four unarmed men who were working to rebuild their country. It was a senseless crime of great barbarity.
Here's the second:
Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly.
That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
The first is from the Arab News, published in Saudi Arabia. The second is from Daily Kos, one of the most read political blogs on the Net, written by Markos Zuniga, a political consultant who's very popular among Democratic Party leaders, according to the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto. By the way, don't bother looking for the original post; it received such a ferocious response from the blogosphere that it's long gone from Zuniga's Web site, as well as Google's cache and the Internet Archive.
Just thought you'd be interested.
