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September 17, 2005
Groundskeeper Willie And His Amazing Friends
It's one thing to avoid calling them evil... but to actually call them "heroes" and later-day Paul Reveres?
But it was his description of how the enemy occupied their safe haven that got the most attention. Col. McMaster told of beheadings, gunshot killings, a booby-trapped dead child and kidnappings. "This is the worst of the worst in terms of people in the world," he said. "To protect themselves here, what the enemy did is they waged the most brutal and murderous campaign against the people of Tal Afar. ... The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine, in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child's body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents."
The Nazis made one mistake: they were Caucasian in the First Degree. Had their skin been swarthy, they could have taken over Europe, Northern Africa, and a good chunk of the Middle East with the blessing of an awful lot of Americans.