By Judi McLeod
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Four American mothers had their hearts broken when their children were killed fighting the war in Iraq, on Saturday. Three American mothers had the horror of a Mother's Day not knowing the whereabouts of their children.
The missing soldiers hardly caused a hiccup on the Web sites of hometown newspapers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Times' readers--including the grieving mothers--must have shuddered when they read in paragraph two that "the five bodies found at the site of the attack, near two burned vehicles, were unrecognizable".
The Boston Globe carried the story, below the fold on Mother's Day.
That was Mother's Day 2007 in the American news media.
Thousands of miles away, U.S. spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell confirmed that about 4,000 U.S. troops were actively searching for the missing three Americans.
Soldiers are like that. They will keep going until they find their missing comrades.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State in Iraq, media identified as "an al-Qaida front group", said it had captured several soldiers in an attack during an explosion that killed four Americans and an Iraqi army translator.
The al-Qaida front group (read Islamic terrorists) who get off beheading their captives on television, said it had the soldiers, but offered no proof to back up its claim, and posted their soul-killing non-information on yet another Islamic Web site.
"Everybody is fully engaged, the commanders are intimately focused on this, every asset we have from national assets to tactical assets...are being used...to locate these three missing soldiers," Caldwell said. (www.myway.com, May 13, 2007).
That's the commanders in Iraq, who spend their time protecting the rest of us from the tyranny of terrorism.
Back home, their country is part of a modern day North America that marches to a politically correct drumbeat, where insulting or even identifying terrorists is done only gingerly.
Back home in a country that sends a dangerous message back to the war arena in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the enemy get to see Cindy Sheehan and Jane Fonda parading in anti-war protests.
Back home where the media was too busy broadcasting 24-hour video clips presented by a mass murderer who snuffed out 32 lives on a Virginia campus, who were too busy before that burying Anna Nichole Smith and using up all their energy trying to determine the father of her child; the same media who awarded saturation coverage to the racist words of Don Imus.
Back home where new House Leader Nancy Pelosi and her deranged sidekick Senator Harry Reid work to cut off funds for troops. The fund cutting came only after Pelosi donned the proper headwear, a Maple leaf-splattered kerchief to bow and scrape to the likes of Syrian President Bashar al Asad.
Back home in a country where treason among politicians and celebrities has become so de rigueur it doesn't register on radar any more.
This Mother's Day, President Bush is getting regular updates on the missing soldiers, Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council said in Washington.
That's cold comfort to heartbroken Moms on a Mother's Day that could end up lasting a lifetime.
Last week, the top U.S. commander in the north, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, said the U.S. didn't have enough troops to restore order in Diyala but more had been promised.
"There is a recognition clearly that in Diyala there has been an uptick in the violence," Caldwell said at a news conference in Baghdad.
On Sunday, Iraqi gunmen drove into the Diyala capital of Baqouba, pulled two handcuffed men out of the trunk and shot them to death--one in view of a bustling market and the other near a movie theatre, police and witnesses said
"This is the destiny of traitors," the gunmen yelled as they shot their victims.
Three other civilians also were killed execution-style in a market in the city center, police said.
American politicians and film stars continue to show no concern for courageous American troops in harm's way. Average Americans can show theirs one week from today at their War Memorials in Washington, D.C.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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