Richard Reid (shoe bomber)

[dartonman]

I hope he rots in his cell, and gloats in his own demise...what a moron....thanks for the post.....al

[GobblerBuster618]

Re: Richard Reid (shoe bomber)

I hope Bubba Really likes this country and teaches him a lesson! Really is the U.S.A. isnt good enough for you please leave our country!

[Newarcher]

Re: Richard Reid (shoe bomber)

I too hope that Bubba in the pen shows Richard Reid just exactly what a 'terrorist' really is!

However, that being said, Americans had better get used to living like Israel...in constant fear of something. We have something big coming, I am afraid, and we will not win this war against terrorism. It will go on forever, much like the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. How can you win against an enemy that lives among you and wears no uniform? Possible, I suppose. However, IMHO, it is impossible when you have a media that is against the American war machine and takes every chance it gets to exploit our soldier's efforts by blowing up minor offenses to make our Commander in Chief look bad. Add to that the Socialist, peace at all costs mentality that is sweeping the Congress of the United States of America, and that spells distruction. The only thing that these terrorist animals understand and respect is absolute unyeilding, unsympathetic, and merciless overwhelming force. As I have seen it, we haven't given it to them just yet and will not because we might get some young, future terrorist in our sights and/or his mother who is breeding more terrorists.

I have a brother that came home from Iraq who showed me pictures of three good looking kids.....probably 8, 10, and 13. They come to the Americans every day with cold cokes and candy bars...the Americans have a hard time keeping ice frozen while on patrol so it is a treat and a great way to help these kids live. In one picture, they are selling a coke to our soldier (who overpaid them all out of the kindness of his heart)--my brother was watching this from a rooftop above. In the other picture, all three of them are striking a pose as if they have rifles and are pointing them at my brother as if they would kill him. As the old saying goes, there is no honor among thieves and that applies to terrorists too. So my brother leveled his machine gun at them (on safety of course) to teach them a lesson. They ran off and forgot their coolers so our guys just left them. There was some talk of taking the coolers with them so that they didn't pose a threat later of bringing a bomb in one. However, the commander said "nah, let them come back for the coolers, it is the only way they make a living....we'll just note it for other troops to BOLO for these three. You can't save everyone from themselves". Now policy says that everyone approaching the soldiers is ordered back and ultimately shot if they won't stay back because parents were sending bombs strapped to their CHILDREN to blow up American soldiers who were stopping to hand out candy and shampoo that others from the US sent TO THE SOLDIERS.

He showed us a confiscated video of insurgents hiding in the bushes trying to blow up humvees with IED's. They have to video it for proof that they did the deed and generally get about $300. They hit two humvees and then fled but were not caught. Some minor injuries but all in all the humvees faired well.

I asked him specifically what he was seeing with the Iraqi army and whether they were waiting on us to leave so they could overthrow the government. I expressed my feelings that there didn't seem to be a lot of loyalty to any of the Iraqi's to anyone. Whoever it seems to be today, fine. Tomorrow, maybe another alliegiance. He showed me a picture of their unit with several Iragi guardsmen we were training. His unit was coming under many more attacks from ambushes...many more than solo American units. Turns out that two of the Iraqis had a cell phone and were radioing ahead to enemy forces and telling them where we would be. Unfortunately for the Iraqis, my brother knows Arabic pretty darned well and overheard their conversation. He radioed ahead and had some Apache's hidden well just over the horizon and when he saw the first sign of an ambush (still gave the bast$%@# the benefit of the doubt), he "took care of" both of the Iraqi guardsmen who suddenly moved into position behind our men and then called in a missile strike to take out the ambushers.

I love our President and believe in this war but here in America, we are founded by the rule of law. We sleep at night because most people won't kill us in our sleep. We send our kids to school because most people won't break into a school and shoot school kids. We go about our lives and drive to work because most people will not ram you off a bridge if you cut them off. In Iraq, there isn't that assumption of the rule of law and an underlying right and wrong that governs people and their actions. They are essentially animals in their thinking and IMHO have little redeeming value. That is why I think there is no winning proposition other than a brutal dictator reigning Iraq. Only under the threat of untolerable death will these people keep order. When given freedom and absent the threat, I think that place will be chaos. I am wondering if a covert team of Seals or Rangers couldn't have saved us a headaches with a behind the lines excursion to take Saddam and his sons out wouldn't have been better. These people do not love freedom because they don't understand it. There aren't just millions of people lined up for SBA loans to start businesses. They are basically sitting in their mud huts plotting how to kill someone...Americans, the new government, and so on. I honestly doubt that these people can live with freedom or even if they could, they would be willing to fight for it in the face of a coup. The problem is, how do you tell who your enemy is with such shifting alliegiances?

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[wtnhunt]

Re: Richard Reid (shoe bomber)

Knew who he was, and can remember when he was caught. Never heard anything about his sentencing. Have no idea why the media failed to get any info out there.