Pelosi, Clark, and the Liberal Mindset

"I assume that the war in Afghanistan is over, or is the contention that you have that it continues?" Nancy Pelosi said to a reporter on June 21, 2005.

A few moments later, she said: "This isn't about the duration of the war. The war in Afghanistan is over."

Pelosi, House minority leader, insists:
"The war in Afghanistan is over."That comment still floors me.

Was she lying or is she really that ignorant?

From Democrat-loving Al Jazeera:

Taliban threat to kill captive US soldier

Friday 08 July 2005, 5:26 Makka Time, 2:26 GMT



The last US soldier still missing in Afghanistan has been captured by the Taliban and rebel leaders have decided to kill him, according to a purported spokesman for the group.

Mulla Latif Hakimi offered no proof to back up the claim on Friday but he said a video would be released of the soldier's death. "This American will never be forgiven. Definitely he will be killed."

Hakimi said he was last in contact on Wednesday with the rebels who he said were holding the American and was told the captive's health was good and that he had not been abused.

He said the US soldier was being held in a house in Kunar.

Hakimi often claims responsibility for attacks on behalf of the Taliban, but his exact link to the Taliban leadership is unclear.

The US commando is the last of a four-member US Navy Seal team missing for 10 days in Kunar province, near the Pakistani border. One of the men was rescued and the other two have been found dead.

Today, the Taliban claims to have upheld their promise.
Again, from the supporters of Dick Durbin, Al Jazeera:

Taliban: We killed missing commando

Saturday 09 July 2005, 15:21 Makka Time, 12:21 GMT

Taliban fighters have said they killed a missing American commando they claimed to have captured in eastern Afghanistan last month.


The US military said it had no information to support the claim.

"We killed him at 11 o'clock today; we killed him using a knife and chopped off his head," Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said on Saturday from an undisclosed location. He said that the body had been dumped on a mountain in the eastern province of Kunar.

The US military has said it has no information to suggest the Navy Seal commando, part of a four-man team that went missing during a clash with militants in mountainous Kunar on 28 June, has been captured.

Asked about the Taliban claim that the man had been killed, US military spokeswoman Lieutenant Cindy Moore said: "I don't have any information on that."

Hakimi, whose information has often proved unreliable in the past, said the body of the soldier had been left on the top of a mountain in Kunar's Shegal district.

"He is wearing red clothes," he said. "We got the information we wanted from him during the interrogation."

Wali Allah Shahin, Aljazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan, said Hakimi had previously threatened the Taliban would kill the US soldier, adding that they had a Fatwa [Islamic decree] by Afghan religious scholars allowing the killing of any prisoner.

"We are in a state of war and will kill any American we hold captive", the Hakimi said.

The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency also quoted a Taliban commander in Kunar, Mohammad Ismail, as saying that the commando had been killed.

AIP quoted Hakimi as saying the killing followed a decision by the Taliban's "council of religious leaders."

The US military said two of its missing commandos were found dead on Monday, having been "killed in action", while another had been rescued and one was missing.

A US helicopter sent to help the team was shot down the same day the team went missing during a battle with fighters, with the loss of all 16 troops aboard. These were the US forces' heaviest loss in a single combat operation since they overthrew the Taliban in late 2001.

"We killed him using a knife and chopped off his head."
My questions for Nancy Pelosi:
If this report is true, was this an act of war?

Or, is it a crime?

Since you claim the war in Afghanistan is over, would you propose that we track down the killers and charge them with murder?

Should we give them a trial in an American court of law?
My questions for Wesley Clark:
The other day you said about the attacks in London, "[W]e've got to give support and encouragement to those who believe as we do that there's just no excuse for murdering innocent people. That's all it is. It's a crime."

Do you believe the beheading of a Navy SEAL is a crime?

Or, does that action fall under the category of an act of war?

How should we react?
My questions for Amnesty International, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and ALL of the people that whined incessantly about the way the U.S. treats its prisoners:
Is the Taliban bound by the Geneva Conventions?

Before his execution, was the Navy SEAL held in what you'd term the "gulag of our time"?

Was the air-conditioning in the room the Taliban kept the American in turned up too high?

If they gave him a Bible, which is highly unlikely, do you think they may have stepped on it or desecrated it in some way?

Do you consider beheading after interrogation to be, oh, I don't know, the ulimate TORTURE?My question for all the liberals of the mindset that allows them to harass the United States military while giving our enemies a pass:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?