Just Another Week In The War On Terror

We Americans (at least most of us) believe that God gives all human beings certain inalienable rights, that everyone is created equal, and that among these rights are the right to live, to live in a government that derides its power from the consent of the people, and the right to pursue our own happiness. These rights do not just belong to people who are lucky enough to have been born to legal citizens of the U.S. living between two great oceans, S of Canada, and N of Mexico. They are rights that belong to all human beings.

Sometimes, some Americans can lose that perspective. They can blow off the tyranny and terror that is cast upon other human beings as a means of influencing our own political will (recall that war is defined as one nation imposing its political and/or economic will upon another through violent means).

Perhaps this recollection of last week’s events in the war against Islamic holy warriors will make those people remember that those rights mentioned earlier are not American rights, but human rights. The following events really did happen last week:

Friday February 1, 2008

• 2 People were shot to death, and four others wounded when an Islamic holy warrior opened fire at the Wheeling, Bus Terminal.
• A 12yr old boy was kidnapped by Islamic holy warriors in Los Angeles, California
• In Washington D.C. a pair of women walked into the American Society for Pets and Domesticated Animals Convention. Both women were wearing bomb vests laden with shrapnel. The vests were remotely detonated by Islamic holy warriors once the women were inside. 99 People were killed, 196 were wounded. Both women had Down’s Syndrome.

Saturday February 2, 2008

• An Al Queda suicide bomber killed 4 people and wounded 9 in Los Angeles, California

Sunday February 3, 2008

• Suspected Al Queda gunmen opened fire on a home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania killing all four family members inside

Monday February 4, 2008

• Islamic holy warriors opened fire on a bus in Phoenix, Arizona killing 2 people and wounding another.

Tuesday February 5, 2008

• Authorities were taken to a vacant lot in New York City where they found 55 bodies. All of them had been executed, and many showed signs of being tortured. Some were even dismembered. A group of Islamic holy warriors is claiming responsibility.
• Also in New York City, a popular Imam was assassinated by Islamic holy warriors in response to his calls for peace.
• In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a woman was shot to death by Islamic holy warriors. Unconfirmed reports are that she offended her attackers and provoked the attack by walking without a male escort down a sidewalk.
• Five people were apparently killed at random by a sniping Islamic holy warrior in Baltimore, Maryland.

Wednesday February 6, 2008

• The bodies of 10 people who had been kidnapped by various groups of Islamic holy warriors were found today in Cleveland, Ohio. All had been decapitated.
• In St. Louis, Missouri 4 people died when their minivan hit a roadside bomb that had been planted by a group of Islamic holy warriors.
• A 7yr old girl was the target of a bombing conducted by an Islamic holy warrior in San Diego, California. Just outside the city in El Cajon, California a woman was killed in a similar bombing also conducted by an Islamic holy warrior.

Thursday February 7, 2008

• A child was killed by an Islamic holy warrior’s bomb in Detroit, Michigan while in nearby Livonia, Michigan Islamic holy warriors broke into a house and executed 3 brothers.
• In Washington D.C. Islamic holy warriors killed 11 people and wounded 18 more in various attacks throughout the capital.

Friday February 8, 2008

• A mass grave containing 8 tortured and dismembered corpses was discovered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Elsewhere in Pittsburgh Islamic holy warriors broke into a home and executed a family of 5.

Saturday February 9, 2008

• More than 25 bodies have been found by authorities in the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. All are victims of attacks from various groups of Islamic holy warriors.

Of course, these things didn’t happen between 2 great oceans, N of Mexico, and S of Canada. They happened in Iraq, but the events of this insurgency are directed at the United States. The victims are Iraqi, but the crimes are acts in a war against the U.S.

Abu Saida, Iraq=Phoenix, Arizona
Baghdad, Iraq=Washington D.C.
Baquba, Iraq=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Diwaniya, Iraq=St. Louis, Missouri
Fallujah, Iraq=Baltimore, Maryland
Hillah, Iraq=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kirkuk, Iraq=San Diego, California
Kut, Iraq=Wheeling, West Virginia
Mosul, Iraq=Los Angeles, California
Muqdadiyah, Iraq=Cleveland, Ohio
Muradiyah, Iraq=Detroit, Michigan
Samarrah, Iraq=New York City, New York

Food for thought.