July 20, 2007

Literally: The Scott Thomas "Smoking Gun"

Everyone else is doing a great job of debunking this, especially Michael Goldfarb of The Weekly Standard, but I just saw this quote over in Ace's excellent post, I figured the TNR editors just might want to see a few photos I have in the archives. "Scott Thomas" at TNR:

Someone reached down and picked a shell casing up off the ground. It was 9mm with a square back. Everything suddenly became clear. The only shell casings that look like that belong to Glocks. And the only people who use Glocks are the Iraqi police.

Our enemies, on the other hand, celebrate their brutality and reward those engaged in it.

No 9mm's in Iraq? I'm guessing at least one of these pistols is a 9mm and at least one of them is a Glock.

WARNING: Some images below NSFW and show the "insurgents" in Iraq treating their captives the only way they know how: murdering them.

Islamic State of Iraq, present al Qaeda front group, executing prisoners.

The "Mujahideen Shura Council" (old front group for al Qaeda in Iraq) executing prisoners.

Ansar al Sunnah murdering Turkish truck driver.

I have dozens more, literally. The preferred method seems to be--when beheading is not involved, which has fallen out of vogue in the last two years among Iraqi "insurgents"-- to line up the victims and then gun them down with an AK. A pistol is then used to "finish off" any of those still alive.

So, please excuse me if I yawn whenever people discuss the "brutality of the occupation" or of the "callousness" of our troops. I find it a bit hard to take as someone who watches our enemies celebrate death, murder, and destruction on a daily basis.