hypocrisy - 'good Americans/bad Americans' vs 'good Muslims/bad Muslims'

[bobbieinok]

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I want to talk about the hypocrisy of General Kimmitt's comments on 60 Minutes II tonight. "This is wrong. This is reprehensible. But this is not representative of the 150,000 soldiers that are over here. I'd say the same thing to the American people. Don't judge your Army based on the actions of a few." Hmmm... On September 11, 2001, nineteen men hijacked four airplanes and crashed them into buildings in the United States. It just so happened that these nineteen men were all MUSLIMS. And what has happened in our country ever since? Muslims have become the enemy. Muslims are the object of hate crimes. Muslims have become the object of Bush's "war for freedom." The United States used the nineteen men as a representative sample of the over one billion Muslims in the world.

More recently, when four mercenaries were murdered in Fallujah by a small group of angry Iraqi men, our military, under the leadership of General Kimmitt, laid siege to an entire city, murdering hundreds of women, children, elderly and sick. In other words, the few people who killed these well-armed, highly trained mercenaries were taken as representative of the entire city.

In other words, General Kimmitt is asking the American public, the world, and the Muslims to do something the United States has either not been able to do, or has refused to do. The hypocrisy is nauseating.

Former Marine Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowen said, "These people at some point will be let out. Their families are going to know. Their friends are going to know. We will be paid back for this."

How can we expect them to distinguish between "good Americans" and "bad Americans", when we are not willing to distinguish between "good Muslims" and bad ones?



http://www.counterpunch.org/rejman05012004.html

[soundfury]

1. great points!!! n/t