The left will now openly support the war. Well, at least the PETA contingent will. They will certainly be up in arms when they read this story about the terrorists strapping bombs to dogs so they can walk in and kill people. The PETA people, when they are not busy killing animals themselves, actually act like they care what happens to the defenseless creatures. I am sure that a bunch of grape Nehi drinking flower children will soon be in Iraq locked arm in arm to prevent the dogs from being captured. Of course, knowing the PETA crowd, they will probably complain that the US military is using dogs to perform work,such as sniffing out the very bombs the terrorists are strapping to other dogs.
In all seriousness, the whole terrorist bomb dog shows us a few things about the enemy and the people who live in that part of the world. Dogs are considered unclean and we would certainly expect that any jackass who would sanction people wearing bombs to kill people would not have a second thought about using a dog. The telling part is what people say about the practice.
Abdel Salam Kubaisi, a spokesman for the Muslim Scholars Assn., a hard-line Sunni Arab clerical organization sympathetic to insurgents, called the practice un-Islamic. “Our religion does not permit us to hurt animals,” he said, “neither by using them as explosive devices nor in any other manner.”
Their religion does not allow them to hurt animals by using them as explosive devices but it allows them to use people in that manner? What kind of twisted philosophy can even rationalize this line of thinking. How can you sympathize with a people who believe that their religious jihad allows them to strap bombs to people and kill others who are innocent but does not permit them to do that with animals?
Maybe it is just me but I find the whole idea of using living creatures, human or otherwise, as bombs to be a bit on the immoral side. Well, we are fighting a bunch of cowards so how can we expect them to be manly and fight? They would rather slither around using people and dogs as bombs than step out and fight. The sad part is that the US military will probably shoot a bunch of stray dogs if they look suspicious (like in they have something strapped to them.
Then, and only then, will PETA actually voice their complaints.
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