CAPTION: Marines Deliver food to Iraqi girl

OK this makes the MOSQUE a target now right?

Forgot this:

IRAQ MAPS:

Hi Res Fallujah Map (CLICK HERE)

Hi Res Najaf Map (CLICK HERE)

The Mother of all Iraqi Maps

Is this the book....

That's in this pic?

Respect for foreign values multicultural bump!

We need to kill this little prick in a hurry.

I remember when our baptist church let out after Easter, all our men got their M16s and started praising God and wishing death to all nonbelievers...good times indeed... *cough*

Just look at that crazy terrorist - is there any doubt, just by looking at his eyes, that he is Satan's puppet?

And in this picture as well:

Much less the posters circulating: You can just see the evil and hatred.

I never cease to be amazed at the blind stupidity that must possess these Arab Muslim fanatics - to just follow someone who is so obviously self-serving (and evil serving).

Kind of makes you wonder if there is any real hope of civilization in that part of the world. Is peace/democracy even possible among the satan-worshipping Muslim fanatics?

You can find more (many exclusive) here:
Marine Corps Times frontline photos

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

A young member of Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr's Army of Mehdi militia holds his father's Kalashnikov in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rybaye)

Members of the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr occupy a building site in the town of Kufa April 16, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

Iraqi Army Fightin' Soldiers Salute !!!!!!

Comment: One of the pictures in the first set appears to have an American Soldier in the background with his hands behind him and civilians in the foreground holding a shoulder-fired rocket.

I hope this US Soldier is not a hostage !!!!??????

NO!!!!!

The entire Middle East needs a Come to Jesus Moment.

DRACULA'S DAUGHTERS

Perhaps you misread what I posted.

The options I was mocking were those that the Palestinians stated they would employ: turn to the UN, the EU or the Arab league for help.

As I implied, all of these sources are laughable.

I believe we have given the Palestinians what they least expected: the logical end to their wasted years of posturing and violence.

They are reaping what they sowed.

I thought your post was in reference to another thread.

Either way, as a conservative Christian myyself, I sincerely believe that the Middle East needs to come to Jesus.

Hence, my complete support for the vision of President Bush, that of opening up that region to freedom, which must include freedom of conscience.

Paratrooper FN-FAL.....One of my favorites. Wonder where he got that.

What is it with these guys and trigger control??

A shared frustration, especially in that the reason we are taking so many casualties is that there are political factors at work.

No reason for Fallujah to not experience the Shock and Awe that was promised to them a year ago.

That would also get the attention of the shiites and they would clean up their messes quickly.

I also think that we should be more forceful about the hostage situations. Sadr's family should be captured and held until every last hostage is released.

"Sanitize" is good. Works for me. About 20kt. on Mecca and Medina.

Man, I want one....I'm stuck with a crappy sporter stock...Ugh...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/104ivafk.asp?pg=1

THE STUDENT of human nature who seems best to have recognized the importance of this bizarre dynamic, in which a conscientious hero proves unable to finish off a foe he knows to be evil, was none other than Shakespeare. Indeed, the Bard was obsessed with understanding the phenomenon. Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved. But it is in "Richard III" that one can learn most from characters who see evil, yet freeze at the key moment. The principal characters are fully aware of Richard's undeniable evil, yet they let him have his way despite themselves. Richard is the most systematically evil character in all of Shakespeare's plays. "I can smile, and murder while I smile," he says, swearing that he will outdo all the villains of history "and set the murderous Machiavel to school."

The most important thing Richard knows is that while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it actually blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.

The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil's most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society. Conscience is supposed to be the faculty that helps us become aware of our effects on others and our motives towards them, notably our baser motives. In Elizabethan English, "conscience" is an equivocal word that can mean either that faculty that allows us to feel guilt or "awareness," as in "consciousness." When Hamlet says, "Conscience does make cowards of us all," he means consciousness, by making us aware of the possibility of death, makes us cowardly.

But conscience, designed to ferret out evil within, can also actually narrow our awareness of evil. This happens, according to Freud, because the person with a conscience learns to repress automatically his own most destructive inclinations so as not to act on them. He becomes ignorant, for example, of the thrill of evil that a sadist like Richard III feels when he plays God and exercises the freedom to kill whomever he pleases. But the cost of repressing one's most destructive feelings is an inability to understand, without significant effort, those who give these feelings free rein.

This is seen over and over in "Richard III," especially in Richard's seduction of Lady Anne, whose husband he has murdered, and it is seen over and over in our dealings with terrorists. Richard actually gets Anne to drop her sword when she's about to kill him. Anne, although she knows Richard is evil, cannot see that he has no conscience. She tells him he should hang himself for what he has done. She keeps missing the point. He feels no guilt. Eventually, she marries him, and he murders her.

Conscience, when it is functioning well--automatically and without the intervention of reason, so that we do the right thing without thinking--is not simply rational. It is a force, a blunt instrument before which the conscientious person is guilty until proven innocent. As the preventive agency in the mind, conscience blocks first, thinks later. Men like Arafat and Richard know this. That is why both men constantly charge others with crimes--to paralyze them. Both know it doesn't matter whether the charges are false. Richard brazenly accuses Anne of inspiring the murder of her husband, as Arafat accuses the West of causing terrorism.

It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column. Having himself no such inner force always second-guessing him, he can see it clearly in others--far more clearly than do those who are in its thrall and take each of its charges seriously. Arafat gets endless second chances because the conscience of the West is doing what a conscience does: second-guessing the West's own actions. That is why Arafat is always playing upon the conscience of the West, especially by his endless recourse to "international law" and invocation of "human rights," an utterly brazen ploy coming from a terrorist.

Law, in the democracies, is like a civic conscience, and like conscience, it is the bluntest of instruments. Because law, in democracies, is made by the people, it has their respect. Democratic citizens are prone to the illusory hope that the law can be applied successfully in international affairs between regimes regardless of whether they are democracies or tyrannies, strong or weak. The name for this hope is "international law." But because the law in tyrannies is ultimately the product of one man's whim, a mere vehicle of the preeminent will and power, it cannot restrain the preeminent will and power. Conscientiousness in no way attaches to the law in tyrannies. International agreements with tyrants are meaningless, yet pursuit of such agreements is precisely what the State Department is now endorsing by trying to get Israel to sit at the table with Arafat.

"What is the law?" Saddam Hussein once asked. Then he answered his own question. "The two lines above my signature."

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Great news, Greg. Thank you for the update. Please thank Heath when you have a chance - we love and appreciate him on the homefront, and are keeping him in prayer.