The murder part does seem a bit extreme but hey, who are we to argue with a definition from a group "commited to nonviolence"?

I don't imagine the dead hostage (Mr. Fox) would consider "murder" to be an exaggeration, but I guess we'll never know. And we certainly join the CPT in rejoicing that no shots were fired during the rescue. I would be very unhappy if one of our troops had been wounded in the release of one of these ungrateful activists.

What they need is a lesson in manners after a good spanking. Oh, but no! That would be torture.
Bah!

Nice jab.

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The CPT went to Iraq to find and report the "evil" they believed the US does in Iraq. They found evil, but not where they went to find it.

Even after being kidnapped, and one of them murdered , they still are unable to grasp what the face of evil looks like. These people are truly in their own orbit of the surreal.

Thank-goodness no good guys were hurt getting these scumbags back.

These people are interfering with our mission over there. Its bad enough tolerating "distractions"... over there, but tolerating "distractions" that also are hostile to our mission? What the heck is the Pentagon doing??!

These people are interfering with our mission over there. Its bad enough tolerating "distractions"... over there, but tolerating "distractions" that also are hostile to our mission? What the heck is the Pentagon doing??!

Seems to me the military can use reasons like this to get out in the Iraqi world, train Iraqi cops and soldiers, and just generally have a reason to wake up in the morning other than patrolling and trying to avoid roadside IED's. You know the soldiers involved in the rescue have got to be high-5'ing each other and feeling good. And even if the bad guys were "just criminals" and not "real live terrorists" THEY have got to be hiding in corners and trembling right about now, too. Don't downgrade the whole event because the victims both here and there are fools.

I worked in Iraq for a year as a contract firefighter on two US Military bases. While I was there I got to know many Military Civil Affairs personnel, Special Forces members, contractors and others who helped the Iraqi people on a daily basis. What is so ironic about the “Christian Peacekeepers” attitude about our Military in Iraq is that the Civil Affairs people, Special Forces, USAID, and others have done more for the Iraqi people in the three years that they have been there than Saddam did in his entire time in office. And they do more for the Iraqi people than these anti-American, headline grabbing twits called “Christian Peacemaker Teams”. My final question about this group is where the hell was the "CPT" when Saddam was starving his people while he built dozens of Palaces, and murdering hundreds of thousands of his citizens. Don''t think CPT would have an answer for that.