An apology from USMC Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman

This "Letter of Apology" was pasted by SSG (Med. RET. USA) Lecktor Hannibal

For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day massacre.

I humbly offer my opinion here:

I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).

I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.

I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.

I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships.

I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.

I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.

I am sorry that Yassar Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high-jacked the Palestinian "cause."

I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.

I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.

I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own brainwashed masses do not understand any of this (from the misleading vocal elements of our society like radical professors, CNN and the NY TIMES).

I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.

I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death.

I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in "paradise."

I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children, the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are legitimate targets.

I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making.

I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.

I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.

I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.

I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy Site."

I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.

I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, etc....etc!

I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.

America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do.

We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move on. That's one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.

Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated?

Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujahans.

If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a long wait! You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins.

Lecktor Hannibal

SSG(Med. RET.) USA

Nice guy.

I thought so OOORAH!

leck, it's a hoax, sorry buddy

damn ok i'll edit it

You sure get sucked into propagating that military-themed propaganda don't you?

~Ulrika~

Nah I wrote it

Seriously? It's not a bad piece of work! I could certainly see something like that make its rounds on the internet.

~Ulrika~

Doesn't make any of those false statements, regardless of their source.

If Hitler said 2+2=4, he's still right.

He could be wrong even with that statement, depending on if he is adding vectors or not. If he is, the answer is anything from 0 to 4 inclusive.

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~Ulrika~

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Almost as crazy as believing that yu go to a place with pearly gates and streets paved with gold.

One heaven is pussy and the other is material wealth. The things people do for religion.

Haha, that's awesome.

now THAT is the most logical and sensible thing anyone has said about religion yet, well done Neehai!!!

Hahahaha, oh man. Isn't it fun to ignore the major difference between how each religion thinks that a person can achieve these different heavens? One side believes that blowing themselves up among a bunch of children will get them their heaven. The other side believes that doing good things for others will get them there. But they're exactly the same, right?

Living with 72 inexperienced women for eternity: after the first few days, I can see that becoming its own hell, with a twist of irony.

72 daily reminders to take out the garbage. Valentine's day lasting for 2 1/2 months. More than one birthday a week. Most of all: the requisite amount of conversation with each!

And who has ever known 72 young women to all get along smoothly.

Besides, I wonder what heavenly reward women would get?

Dear Iran, I'm sorry that US forces, backed by the CIA, toppled your democratically elected leader in 1953, at the request of Britain, who was afraid that you would nationalize oil and threaten the United Kingdom's oil supply.

http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol48no2/article10.html

Dear Iran, I'm sorry that this led to murdering, fundamentalist arseholes assuming control of your government since then. I'm sorry that the US has SUPPORTED and EMPOWERED THAT MURDER. But you really should have known better than to defy us.

Dear Iran, I'm sorry that the murder and repression have been about O-I-L since 1953.

Dear Iran, I'm sorry that Bush is lying about your resuming nuclear weapons testing and will soon invade your country again, over oil. And to support the American Final Solution.

http://www.uruknet.com/?p=19412&hd=0&size=1&l=x

quote from the article:"Washington has intentionally confused Iran’s non-binding agreement with the UK, Germany and France with the NPT (Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty). Thus when Iran ends its voluntary suspension of uranium enriching activities, the Bush administration pretends that Iran is doing something illegal, even though the Treaty itself specifically allows it to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes."

Dear Iran, Im sorry that the Bush family has economic ties (and probably fundamentalist religious sympathies) with your repressive, murdering Royal Family and allows said Royals to kill and enslave the Iranian people in order to protect the oil supply.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0111-01.htm

Dear Iran, I'm sorry that the US supplied chemical weapons to Iraq, for use against Iranian forces, in the Iran-Iraq war. But Saddam was our boy, then. Before he decided to change Iraq's currency from the dollar to the Euro, threatening the value of American oil investment in Iraq.

http://www.feasta.org/documents/papers/oil1.htm

Dear Iraq, I'm sorry that the US claimed we would SUPPORT your march into Kuwait, but we lied and attacked you to protect the Kuwaiti Royal Family. You see, we tricked you. Your march gave us a pretext to take you out. That's how the game is played, ol boy.



Dear, Iran: AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAHHH!!!!

Prolly to be one of the 72

I'm disappointed in you, Lector.

I didn't know you were capable of such kneejerk jingoism.

Sad. Just sad.

The truth makes you sad?

Go sit back down at the kid's table, Stankleberry. I'm talking to Lector.

So the truth makes you mad, then? That's a shame.

what part of that sophmoric and shallow assesment of world events was true?

Enlightment me, Stankleberry.

The part about the truth making you angry. That was the true part.

The letter written at the beginning of this thread proceeds from so many false allegations that to even comment on it beyond pointing out that it is incredibly ill informed tripe is worthless.

Get educated, Stankleberry. You are supporting a fascistic imperial agressor. Your falsely elected President is a traitor to this country and a terrorist.