",,,a cowardly act the will not go unpunished." ????

[ladybugg33]

How can the administration make such a stupid statement and so many stupid people reapeat? How in the hell are two people who "hand-carried" two bombs inside the Green zone and killed themselves along with others labeled "cowards" and how in the hell are we going to "punish" them?

[Spinzonner]

1. Careful now

you could find yourself Mahered

[Demit]

2. I grit my teeth whenever I hear the Bush cabal use the construct "punish"

It's a deliberate religious thing. We Are the Righteous, and God Has Annointed Us to Smite Them. I agree, the "cowardly" part is just illogical. But it adds the icing to the justification cake: We Are Brave and Good and Therefore It's Okay to Kill Them. And the followers just eat it up.

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Because they think "coward" is the most emasculating

thing an enemy can be called.

A suicide bomber may be many things, but not a "coward."

[booisblu]

4. Yeah,

but how can you punish them if they're already dead? Suicide bomber means they died doing it.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Typical fascist double-speak/propaganda.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Maybe they're planning collective punishment--

punish them Eye-Rackies fer blowing up Eye-Rackies. The obvious way to do that is to fire up our bombers & missiles an' blow up some Eye-Rackies.

[lectrobyte]

7. Didn't the Nazis shoot 100 civilians in occupied countries for every

soldier killed by the "resistance"? I personally hate the Nazi comparisons, but they just seem to fit, way more often than I'd like.