Tommy was NOT kidnapped

Tommy was NOT kidnapped. He was captured.. That's what happens when you venture into a warzone.. You are automatically "fair game". I get so sick of this mis-administration's twisted terminology. If you are in a war zone and you fall into the hands of the "enemy", THEY consider you a "capture"...military or not..

Tommy was hired by Halliburton, for BIG BUCKS, to do a dangerous job. He was no more kidnapped, than are miners kidnapped by "Mother Earth".
The townspeople weep, and unfurl more flags..The fabric stores sell out of yellow ribbon..

If Tommy's town cared so much for him , why was there not more lucrative work for him in Mississippi?
His wife needed heart surgery, so he signed away his life.
Why did he need to do that so she could have life-saving surgery??

Don't cry for him, Mississippi. He just did what he felt he needed to do.. Instead, how about examining the REASONS that so many young people "have" to join the service, or why family men feel compelled to risk their lives?

Those things would be worthy of some town meetings, and some serious soul searching by the officials who are so ready to "cut here", and "chisel there", when it comes to necessary programs..

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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/nation/story/1279378p-8384118c.html

Sunday, April 11, 2004 6:19PM EDT

Hostage goes from farm debt to Iraq


By STEVE ROGERS, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

MACON, Miss. (CSM) - After years of trying to make it as a dairy farmer in rural Mississippi, Tommy Hamill finally decided last summer to do what virtually no one in agriculture ever wants to: sell the family farm.
He needed to pay off a mounting debt. Yet the sale didn't cover all the family's obligations. So Hamill, concerned about meeting his family's needs, and inspired by a sense of adventure and patriotism, took a job with a U.S. contractor in Iraq that provided food, fuel, and clothing for U.S. troops.




Now his well-intentioned decision has landed him in the middle of an international crisis with wrenching repercussions for his family and friends and posing new political challenges for the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Consider it a reflection of what Kerry has been trying to communicate with his "index of misery". He was trying to make his own personal situation work out by taking a risk.

The being said, he was definitely captured. "Kidnapped" is a perjorative term employed as an exercise in denial. This is war. War is ugly. That is why you shouldn't start them without a fucking good reason.

Just been reading Raed's blog. Done nothing to sooth my anger over all this.

He's a non-combatant being held against his will and demands are being issued in exchange for his release.

Looks like a kidnapping, walks like a kidnapping ... probably is a kidnapping.

, or PEACE ACTIVIST also may have KNOWN the RISKS of GOING TO IRAQ, just wondered if THEY were FAIR GAME as well.


Am talking of the OTHERS taken hostage of course.