borrowed (with permission) from a blog linked to the Stryker blog we've seen here lately-
the author is a Combat Medic in the Stryker Brigade.
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"I heard some Arabs are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine:

-I am sorry that the last seven times the Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth it was in defense of Muslims ( Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War1 Kuwait, etc)
-I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11. I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Arabs.
-I am sorry that Arabs live in squalor under savage dictatorships. I am sorry that their leaders squandor their wealth. I am sorry that their government breeds hate for the US in their religious schools.
-I am sorry that Yasser Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and hijacked the Palestinian "cause." I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
-I am sorry that the US has to step in and be the biggest financial supporters of poverty stricken Arabs while insanely wealthy Arabs blame the US.
-I am so sorry that our own left wing elite and our media can't understand this.
-I am sorry that the UN scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the "food-for-oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
-I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death. I am sorry that those same bombers are seeking 72 virgins. I can't seem to find one on Earth.
- I am sorry that the homicide bombers think babies are a legitimate target.
-I am sorry that our troops died to free more Arabs. I am sorry they stopped the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents.
-I am sorry they show so much restraint when their brothers-in-arms get killed. I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
-I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state. I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy Cutters on Fallujah.
-I am sorry that every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy Site." I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severly damaged St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.
-I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, etc.
-I am sorry that Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.
-I am sorry the French are ? French.

America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because thats what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for all the world to see. We move on. That's why we are hated so much. We don't hide all this stuff like all the Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.

Deep down inside when most Americans saw this reported in the news we were like...so what. We lost hundreds and made fun at a few prisoners. Sure it was wrong, sure it dramatically hurts our cause but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated? Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own kind being killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujans.

If you are sorry for all this also, pass it on.

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Hmmm..