Barbarians

NY Post Editorial:

Thuggish, depraved butchers - that's what America is up against. And the horrific slaying and apparent torture of two heroic American soldiers in Iraq couldn't have made that more painfully clear yesterday.

Of course, the enemy's barbarism is no news; the terrorists' record is long and chilling - in Iraq and beyond.

National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley rightfully referred to them yesterday as "a brutal enemy that does not follow any of the rules."

The news serves as a bitter reminder of the cold-blooded evil this country must defeat, as it comes amid nonstop stories in the press of alleged U.S. "abuses" at Guantanamo and elsewhere.

And amid much Page One attention to alleged killings of Iraqis by American forces; on Monday, the Army announced charges against three U.S. soldiers suspected of fatally shooting three detainees in Iraq last month.

News of the brutal murders of the U.S. soldiers - Pfcs. Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Thomas Tucker, 25 - also came as Democrats pressed the U.S. Senate to endorse a hasty exit from Iraq.

Does anyone really think these blood-thirsty monsters (al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq claimed their new leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, conducted the slaughter personally) won't link their hideous deeds to the Dems' call for retreat? To rejoice in having used terror to scare the world's sole superpower?

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I do not know if the Democrats are just too ignorant of warfare to see the truth on this point or just do not care. They may argue that this only happened because we are at war, but in their soul they should know that the evil people we are at war with did it to our citizens on 9-11 when we were not fighting them and they will do it to everyone of us they get a chance to. This is the face fo the evil we are at war with and they will still be at war with us if the Democrats force a retreat.