A Marine Corporal who was kidnapped and is still being held hostage and is (hopefully) not dead is just the latest political human football in Iraq. Reports have him being beheaded, and on this Fourth of July, we hope that there's no truth to those rumors.
As the 1st Armored Division pulls out of Iraq, three months late, its commanding general, MG Martin Dempsey had this to say...
"We have learned a lot about the price of freedom," the division commander, Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey, said in an Independence Day speech. "People experiencing freedom for the first time may not understand how fragile it can be."
The irony of this story is probably lost on General Dempsey, who probably has not even seen it.
"Our immediate task in battle fronts like Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere is to capture or kill the terrorists ... so we do not have to face them here at home," Bush told a cheering crowd outside the West Virginia Capitol.
... Two Bush opponents, taken out of the crowd in restraints by police, said they were told they couldn't be there because they were wearing shirts that said they opposed the president.(emphasis added)
Yes, General Dempsey, Freedom is indeed a fragile thing. Too bad Fearless Leader does not understand that. He's still trying to market the war that got 135 of your troops killed and 1100 of them wounded.
I wonder how Corporal Hassoun is feeling about the fragility of freedom, especially as defined by his water-polo-playing dry-drunk commander in chief? I'm pretty sure he was over in Iraq trying to bring closure to the whole "mission accomplished" debacle. Now he's a POW.
