In keeping with yesterday's blog subject... Did ya all hear that they finally found the bodies of two American soldiers that went missing last week? Yep, they found them alright, in the street, mutilated, tortured... An Iraqi defense ministry official said the men were tortured and "killed in a barbaric way." Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for killing the soldiers, and said the successor to terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had "slaughtered" them, which, of course, means they were beheaded, most probably in a sawing-like manner while still alive. I can't even begin to imagine...

And we're going to punish our own soldiers for killing these types of barbarians, these fucking pigs!--during a WAR!!!

How about this scenario: Your battalion gets ambushed in the street. One of your buddies in your battalion gets captured. You survive the ambush but he gets captured. He's missing for days and then you hear they found him, tortured and slaughtered like a fucking animal. Next day or two you capture some insurgents and take them to the "detainee camp" or whatever. And you're supposed to like give them some bread and water or something?? I'm thinking you're pretty pissed off about what they did to your buddy. What these motherfuckers have been doing to American citizens and soldiers all along... and then the whole 911 thing... it's all going through your head... and how these men shoot at you... these strangers... and how they would kill you in a second if circumstances were reversed... all of this is running through your head.... and you look at them in the eye, and they look back at you in defiance... and you say to yourself "Christ, this is war... kill or be killed...." and you're out in the middle of the desert for God knows what reason other than that you're proud to defend your country... and then the image of your buddy being tortured and beaten and you wonder what the hell must have went through HIS mind... and how that could have been you instead... but he got it and you didn't.... and who knows, you might be next... and these arrogant, ignorant motherfuckers with hate and defiance in their eyes are sitting there murdering you little by little with their glares and their yelps and their bows and their brazen insolence and oh how they hate you....

What was it The Old Testament preached? "An eye for an eye", right?...

I sit here and type about it. a nothing man. while guys like these fight and die in the desert.

Thank you Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore. (as well as the rest of you who have fought and still are fighting for God knows why; other than what it means to YOU - fighting for your country's freedom - which is why I thank you). You won't be forgotten here.