PFC Joseph Anzack Jr., found in the Euphrates River The other missing soldiers are Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass.; and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich. While there is some hope the biggest source of hope lies in that the 3 of them were not found executed like the
bodies of two American soldiers who disappeared Friday after an insurgent attack on a checkpoint were discovered late Monday and showed signs of having been tortured. Al-Qaida in Iraq posted an Internet statement claiming that Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the successor to the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed the two soldiers, using a word for slaughter that is commonly understood to mean beheading. According to a farmer claiming to have witnessed the attack, masked gunmen swarmed the checkpoint, killing the driver of a Humvee Spc. David J. Babineau, 25 of Springfield, Mass. and taking the two other soldiers captive. Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore. I find it strange that when there's film of American atrocities the press worldwide, US is quick to run this film footage yet the footage of Menchaca and Tucker taken by the insurgents showing them laying out the bodies and playing soccer with Tuckers head is too graphic to show? Perhaps had it been US troops desecrating the bodies it would have been not too graphic.

I predict that holding one side to obeying the rules of war and turning a blind eye to the other sides violations has led to what is happening today - that is to say you can't have unilateral obedience of laws before one side says "HEY IF YOU'RE GOING TO IGNORE OUR OPPONENTS VIOLATIONS....." then you have Hama Rules, not US troops committing atrocities but Iraqi elements, not necessarily military but perhaps paramilitary and the signs of this kind of program already going on are there for those who can read between the lines to see.

Once atrocity begins it is a slippery slope of action/reaction no less than an iron circle of revenge when it gets to the point to where no one remembers the original acts being avenged or who did what to who. It's out there people and until there is equal justice instead of any act commited by the insurrgents a legitimaate act of ressistance no matter who wins the criminals using the war as a fig leaf of justificartion will present a problem in restoreing law and order when the war's over.