I’m completely appalled by what is being reported today about the bodies found in the Tigris. There are more people involved in this crime against humanity than just those people who pulled the trigger or dumped the bodies in the river. The Iraqi government today found 50 bodies in the Tigris river, some of them women and children. Not only were 50 bodies found in a river, but 20 more bodies of Iraqi soldiers were found in a stadium.

I’m telling you that these “clerics” need to suffer the same fate. Initially, they had told the government that there weren’t any hostages in their town. This was presumably to buy time while the insurgents disposed of the bodies. Naturally, when the Iraqi police came through searching for the missing people they didn’t find anything. It wasn’t until a later tip that they went back and found the bodies in the river. There needs to be a cleansing in that town. We’re interrogating the wrong people. While I’m sure this isn’t the politically correct thing to say, the Muslim clerics in that town need to be interrogated and their lives put under a microscope. Their homes need to be searched, their computers probed, the bank accounts scrutinized. Their mosques need to be searched also, preferably by Muslim government officials. If ANYTHING is found that links these guys to the terrorists who committed this tragedy, they need to be dealt with immediately (preferably suffering the same fate).

On another note, I want to discuss the SGT, no just Hasan Akbar’s case. I prefer not to refer to him as a SGT because he is NOT one. He has not lived the creed, he has not protected his fellow soldiers, he is NOT even a soldier in my eyes. You may remember Akbar as the guy that threw grenades into the tent of REAL soldiers in Kuwait, killing two officers. I was in Kuwait when this happened, not far from that camp. As a matter of fact, I was on that camp the week before he threw the grenade. You want to talk about psychological issues! Imagine thinking that someone in your unit may be thinking about throwing a grenade in your tent.

Well, now his father is demanding an inquiry into possible religious and racial harrassment his soldier may have suffered prior to killing those people. Excuse me, but is Hasan dead because of those comments? Don’t get me wrong, racial and religious harrassment is deplorable, but is he dead? No!! Those two soldiers, however, are. And their families are trying to live with that fact. And Hasan’s father thinks he has the right to ask for anything. He wrote a letter to the Associated Press called “Concerned Father Seeks Justice For Loved Son”. I’m willing to give his son the justice he seeks. Just send him to California and give me a crate of grenades. I’ll place his son into a tent with no way to escape and casually toss in a few grenades and open fire with my M16 at the same time. If he survives, I’ll throw a few more and unload another magazine. If he doesn’t, justice will have been done and his father will get his wishes. I apologize for sounding cold about this, but I can live with (though it’s still upsetting) a soldier being killed by the enemy. But, to die at the hands of your brother is inexusable. The guy that’s supposed to be watching your back is plotting to release shrapnel through it.

Okay, I’m not being as positive and upbeat as I normally am, so I’m going to close before I get more upset. It just upsets me, soldiers killing soldiers and Iraqis killing Iraqis.