Activist group fails to thank rescuers

THE Christian group whose activists were freed in a British-led raid in Baghdad yesterday did not thank their rescuers but instead called on them to withdraw from Iraq.
In a long statement released in Toronto, the leaders of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) described how delighted they were to hear about the release of their three abducted members. But they pointedly failed to acknowledge that the hostages had been freed in a military operation involving British, American, Canadian and Iraqi forces. Instead they blamed the presence of foreign troops for Iraq’s problems.

Doug Pritchard, co-director of CPT, said the hostages knew that their only protection was in “the power of the love of God and of their Iraqi and international co-workers”. No mention was made of the special forces, intelligence officers and police who worked for months to secure the men’s release.

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The group was founded two decades ago by Ronald Sider, a Canadian-born American theologian, who called for Christians to be prepared to “die by the thousands” for peace to counter those killed by armies at war. Volunteers for duty in Baghdad must sign an agreement declaring that they understand that they might be injured, kidnapped or killed.

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Well there you are, folks. These naive individuals knowingly went into a dangerous war zone. They got themselves into trouble, and in the process of having to rescue them, they placed the lives of others at in danger! As if the trouble they caused others isn't enough, they don't even have the courtesy to say thanks to their rescuers afterwards! This is just amazing!

You can read the actual CPT's response (a piece of insolent, sanctimonious drivel) here.

Let me be (*)(*)(*)(*)ed for saying this: coalition forces should have left them alone and let Darwinism take its natural course.

Apparently you missed the latest addition to the CPT Statement:

Addenda
23 March 2006, 9 p.m. ET
We have been so overwhelmed and overjoyed to have Jim, Harmeet and Norman freed, that we have not adequately thanked the people involved with freeing them, nor remembered those still in captivity. So we offer these paragraphs as the first of several addenda:

We are grateful to the soldiers who risked their lives to free Jim, Norman and Harmeet. As peacemakers who hold firm to our commitment to nonviolence, we are also deeply grateful that they fired no shots to free our colleagues. We are thankful to all the people who gave of themselves sacrificially to free Jim, Norman, Harmeet and Tom over the last four months, and those supporters who prayed and wept for our brothers in captivity, for their loved ones and for us, their co-workers.

We will continue to lift Jill Carroll up in our prayers for her safe return. In addition, we will continue to advocate for the human rights of Iraqi detainees and assert their right to due process in a just legal system.

Better late than never.

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Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question... skip it.

I don't even like the opening sentence...

They weren't freed, they were rescued. People risked their lives for these nut jobs. I certainly hope they're not allowed back in Iraq.

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

They're peace activists, That's why they are there. Did you think they were gonna flip-flop 180゜ and say, "Go ahead and kill all these cameljockey b@st@rds. We don't give a fliying sh-t about'em."

I think that is pretty respectable, in a way.

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LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!!!

with these guys, I have to say that at least they have the courage of their convictions. That's alot more than the loud mouthed lefties we have here.
They should all sign the same agreement and head over to Iraq for some useful, peace activity. But the military forces should not risk their lives, if they get captured or kidnapped.

Oh they did, did they? No shots were fired and no terrorists were seen in the vicinity; was there a volcano threatening to erupt nearby that I may not have heard about?

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

They shouldn't be over there in the middle of a war in the first place. No reason the Coalition should waste it's time and risk their lives trying to save these ungrateful people.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

It's not the first time the bad guys fled when they catch wind that our military and/or the coaltion is coming.

Also.....here's a good chance for these Christian activists to help the military by giving some details of what they know about their kidnappers and those who murdered and tortured their friend. And therefore maybe save some other lives, including our military lives. But do you think they will??? I doubt it very seriously.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

There they go (again), heroically risking life and limb and hair-dos saving ne'er do well, ungrateful, anti-war hippy bums...

sorry...did I forget to mention that they put their very lives on the line ...for these scum....

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Who asked them to? They don't represent me. MY government and MY military represents me.

We already know that much harm is done sometimes in the name of "religion and God." We see it with the Islamofascists and we see it with these Christian peace activists who think they have all the answers. Newsflash: they don't. And they aren't elected to anything!! They don't represent us in any way, form or fashion.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007