Abu Ghraib - a Football Analogy

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Abu Ghraib - a Football Analogy
Much has been made by liberals in reference to Abu Ghraib - but let me give you a football analogy. Lets say that you are a Green Bay Packers' fan back in the day and the Packers are in the Super Bowl facing the New England Patriots. During the game the Patriots take cheap shots at Brett Favre, they hit late, intentionally try to hurt players and use all types of dirty tactics. As a result - a couple Packers retaliate and take a couple of late shots at the quarterback of the Patriots. However, it is minor as compared to what the Patriots did during the course of the game. As a Packers' fan - you wouldn't say that the coaches orchestrated the late hits and they should resign? Do you think that you would hear a Packers fan in the crowd yelling that there should be an investigation to see who at the top of the organization was involved in the late hits by the Packers? I doubt you would hear such words from a true Packers fan. However, what if you did? What if a person wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey stood up in the crowd and started yelling such things? That person has the right to freedom of speech. However- you also have the right to think and so what would you think as a Packer's fan if you saw this? I would suggest that you would think that this person is really not a Packers' fan.

Now let me take this a step further. What if the Green Bay Packers were not playing the New England Patriots, but a team from North Korea? What if this team from North Korea was not only taking cheap shots at the Packers, but going into the stands and taking cheap shots and hurting innocent fans? As a Packers fan and an American- how angry would you be that a foreign team was intentionally trying to hurt your team as well as innocent American spectators? What if this Packers' fan now stood up and started yelling that the coaches should resign and there should be an investigation over a couple of cheap shots taken at the North Korean's quaterback? What would you think? You would think that not only is this person not rooting for the Packers- he is not rooting for America.

Throughout history - American prisoners of war have been treated far more severely than America has treated its prisoners of war. American prisoners of war have been tortured, starved to death and executed by their enemies. The treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib by Americans was not right, however, it in no way can be compared to what has happened to Americans who have become prisoners of war by other countries. We have also seen our enemies in the war on terror kidnap and behead innocent civilians not involved in the war. We have seen them even go to the extreme of killing innocent children with homicide bombers. Yet- Democrats have been criticizing the Bush administration ever since the story about Abu Ghraib broke. Ted Kennedy stated, "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers have reopened under new management – U.S. management". Other leading Democrats such as former presidential nominee John Kerry had called for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign and also called for an investigation to see who in the Bush administration was involved. Newspapers such as the NY Times have run story after story for months about Abu Ghraib. Can you imagine a Green Bay newspaper running story after story for weeks about a couple of late hits after the opposing team took cheap shots and attacked spectators during a game?

The war on terror that America faces today is about the future freedom of this world. As a result, the consequences are far greater than the outcome of a football game. Draw your own conclusion; however, I submit to you that the leaders of the Democratic Party that criticized the Bush administration over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal have every right to so, but they are not rooting for America. Democrats say that they are exercising their freedom of speech and that it is wrong to question their loyalty or patriotism. Sorry- but I disagree... these leaders of the Democratic Party are placing their party affiliation (self interest) above their own country. If a Packer's fan stood up and criticized and asked for an investigation into the coaches of the Packers for a couple of hits against a North Korean quarterback- a real Packers' fan would tell him to take off his jersey and sit in the opposing stands.... I suggest that Democrats that bash America over Abu Ghraib do the same.

Written by Thomas George
Editor@the-manumitter.com/

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