A Wake Up Call for Peaceniks ("useful idiots")

A Wake Up Call for Peaceniks
By Jim Kouri
Dec 4, 2005

Throughout the world, antiwar activists are encouraging their followers to intensify their efforts to end the war in Iraq and the overall war on terrorism. Some activists have even traveled to Iraq just to say, "I was there," in order to give their rhetoric more credibility.

Unfortunately for four Western peaceniks, their journey brought them face-to-face with the enemy Americans face in this war -- the Islamofascists. These four activists were abducted by a group of terrorists who apparently mean business: they say they will execute their hostages if their demands are not met.

The kidnappers have promised to kill the British, American and Canadian peace activists -- Norman Kemper, Tom Fox, James Looney, and Harmed Singh Sodden -- unless Iraqi and American authorities release all detainees held in Iraq. The terrorists also demand the immediate withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq. These threats were part of a written statement that accompanied a new video of the four hostages for the Arabic television channel al-Jazeera.

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Unfortunately, these peacemakers won't be investigating abuses of Iraqi detainees, who are for the most part, terrorists, Saddam-loyalists and Sunni insurgents. They will, however, witness first hand the viciousness of America's enemy in the war on terrorism. There may be the hope that this group of terrorists will set aside their bloodlust and realize these peaceniks are worth more to them as useful idiots alive and protesting the actions of the United States and Britain, than dead useless idiots.

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