Outrage

Published on May 11, 2004 By dharmagrl In Current Events

I am so mad I can hardly string together a sentence.

Nick Berg. Dead. Decapitated, on TV, by members of Al Queida.

In retaliation, supposedly, for the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

As much as I am ashamed at what happened in that prison and think that the perpetrators of the abuse should be held accountable for their actions....I am still outraged at this atrocity. And I don't understand why more people aren't.

That's all I can say for now. I'm still too mad to think properly.

Comments (Page 2)

dharmagrl

on May 12, 2004

Once is becomes a personal glimpse of someone we are mortified. But when we're given simple body count numbers on the evening news we begin to feel very little

This is what I've been saying and trying to get people to see for a while now. We are desensitized to the loss of life over there, and it isn't until we have something like this shoved in our faces that we see the human, the personal side of this war.

I am sad, angry and disgusted all at the same time.

mikimouse

on May 12, 2004

"Please use your own blog to spout off your conspiracy and lie theories. At least I have the option of not going there"
conspiracy? Hahahaha. What conspiracy are you speaking of? You're hating to hear anything ideological? Please tell me. And I won't fuck off so you better do your blacklist horseshit on me, you know, what you do when people say things you don't want to hear. Too bad that guy had to go to Iraq alone. Why not villify his silly decision. Or the US army for detaining the poor guy. Like his dad said, if the US didn't detain him, he'd be alive.

Sir Peter Maxwell

on May 12, 2004

It is a vicious circle from now on (as it has been for a while). They hate the Americans for abusing the prisoners so they behead that chap, the Americans hate them for beheading him so they hit back etc etc

dharmagrl

on May 12, 2004

Miki, I never asked you to "fuck off". I said "feel free to go away". Big difference.

Sir Peter: you're right.

dharmagrl

on May 12, 2004

Too bad that guy had to go to Iraq alone. Why not villify his silly decision. Or the US army for detaining the poor guy

It wasn't the Army detaining him, it was at first the Iraqi police and then the FBI, and they offered hima free ticket home when they released him. You can read more here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4953015/

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