Why Are They Still Angry? They Had Thier Election!

Iraqi insurgents threaten to behead captured soldier unless the US releases some Iraqi prisoners.

Um, yeah, I'm sure that'll happen.

And I'm sure its not helped very much by the fact that the pic of the GI doesn't look all that real. I'm not saying he isn't a real US GI who's been captured but it doesn't look like it in the pic.

And the claim of a captured soldier hasn't been verified so I think they'll hold off on releasing some scum of the earth.

But this situation does present an intense and difficult position to put our military and country in. If individual soldiers are captured and executed in ever spiralling nasty ways, how long will it be before the US people demand an end to the conflict?

I don't know and I don't want to find out just how strong our resolve is. Especially since it wasn't so strong to begin with based on the flimsy and now vaporous justification for the war.

[Update: Damn, I am good! I called it, I said the pic looked like a fake and now we know it is. US GI is Toy Soldier. Suckers. Did the terrorists actually think that the military was just going to release dangerous prisoners because they said they had one of ours? And we weren't going to check? Damn, that's stupid or desperate.]