Radical left spits on corpses of US soldiers

Two soldiers were captured last Friday after an attack at a traffic checkpoint outside the city of Youssifiyah, located just south of Baghdad. Their names are Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore. Our worst fears were realized when the bodies of the two were found and recovered:

The director of the Iraqi defense ministry's operation room, Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Mohammed, said the bodies showed signs of having been tortured. "They were killed in a barbaric way," he said.

They were probably tortured before being killed and I mean real torture, not the type of activities the media and the left call "torture" that happened at Abu Ghraib and are occurring at Guantanamo Bay during interrogations.

Predictably, the moonbat left blames Bush for this even though the terrorists would happily have killed these soldiers in this way regardless of our presence in Iraq. From this post at Daily Kos:

The bodies of the two captured U.S. soldiers were found in Iraq - bearing signs of "barbaric torture."

How quaint.

I hope Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo will sleep well tonight, with visions of those boys' bodies and the horrible barbarities inflicted upon them dancing in their heads. Perhaps Gonzales, and Yoo, and Rumsfeld and Bush will be able to envision the same inhumanities being visited upon their family members and loved ones as they drift off to peaceful slumber.

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Naturally the Geneva Conventions are brought up. Here's the deal. The Geneva Conventions were created to deter torture, mistreatment of prisoners of war, etc. The way they do this is by essentially saying: "If you, as a signatory to these conventions, are in conflict with another signatory, and you violate the terms of these conventions, then your opponent is no longer obligated to observe the terms. They are then free under the conventions to commit similar acts against any of your soldiers or civilians that they capture." In other words, do it to them and expect them to do it back to you.

Our enemy in this conflict is not a signatory to the Geneva Conventions. They commit atrocities like the killings of these soldiers, the killings of the contractors in Fallujah, the beheadings of Nick Berg and others, as a matter of course. For them it is standard operating procedure. Yet we adhere to the terms of the conventions despite this, and we are blamed when our enemy does not. I do not think that we should start torturing and killing terrorist prisoners. I believe we should continue as we have. It proves that we are morally and ethically superior to our enemy. Even the aberrations such as Abu Ghraib and recent events in Haditha, assuming it is proven that the Marines are guilty as charged (and pre-convicted by ex-Marine John Murtha), do not approach the level of barbarity that our enemy commits on a daily basis.

Unfortunately the radical left is so blinded by hatred of Bush and Republicans that they will never see it. We can't make them shut up, nor should we try. We can only marginalize them and expose them for the barking moonbats that they are.