I wonder how much harm we're doing looking for the missing soldiers

[BushOut06]

I heard somebody saying that the Army is doing "everything they can" to locate the missing soldiers. That sounds good on TV, but I wonder how this translates on the ground over there. How many Iraqi families are being terrorized by soldiers going house-to-house, kicking in doors, "interrogating" civilians, hauling terrified people away to jail - some of whom will probably never see their families again. We've already heard stories of soldiers kicking in doors in the middle of the night, terrifying families - and that was when we didn't have any soldiers missing.

It's time to bring them home NOW. The only thing we're doing is creating more problems for ourselves!

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. al-Qaida: Stop Search for U.S. Soldiers

I posted on this yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=882161&mesg_id=882161


Published: 5/14/07, 12:05 PM EDT
By THOMAS WAGNER
BAGHDAD (AP) - An al-Qaida front group that claims it has captured American soldiers warned the United States on Monday to stop searching for them and suggested it attacked the U.S. convoy as revenge for the rape and murder of a local teenager last year.

The U.S. military also said for the first time it believes the three missing soldiers were abducted by al-Qaida-linked militants after an attack that included three roadside bombs.

"What you are doing in searching for your soldiers will lead to nothing but exhaustion and headaches. Your soldiers are in our hands. If you want their safety, do not look for them," the Islamic State of Iraq said on a militant Web site.

"You should remember what you have done to our sister Abeer in the same area," the statement said, referring to five American soldiers who were charged in the rape and killing of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi and the killings of her parents and her younger sister last year."

[nannah]

2. so perhaps a prisoner trade is in order.

the marines who murdered Abeer and her family in exchange for the captured soldiers. certainly the perpetrators are the ones who would be held accountable for their crime, rather than random american soldiers. quite the difficult moral issue to think through.

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. yes, that is a difficult thing to think through...

I really do hope for the best for these guys, but I'm afraid I'll have to stick to fearing for the worst. If they were still alive, this group would be showing them, imho

[Bobbieo]

4. SO, When they are shown on a video, blindfolded, seated before a group of armed me

who offer a deal to Bush. We'll set your men free for setting x number of our men free. And Bush will respond, "We don't deal with terrorists."

Bring our guys home!!! At least they will have a chance to live.