Anti-War Peacenik Hostages in Iraq Rescused by Military, Home Group Denounces Military

Well here's good news. Three members of the Christian Peacemaker Team who were held hostage in Iraq the past four months were rescued by a joint American and British military operation. This is the same military that the CPT described as occupiers who illegally detained Iraqis suspected of terrorism and war crimes.

The fourth hostage, Tom Fox, who was apparently murdered by his captors had left instructions, that he not be rescued. His daughter, in a December interview on Nightline said the following:

KATHERINE FOX: In that he, before he left, he wrote a very concise, precise statement of conscience and conviction, that if he were to ever be taken hostage that he does not support violent means to come in and to potentially release him, to rescue him. That he doesn't support that way of dealing with the problem. That there needs to be talks. That we need to keep seeing these people as human beings.

He got his wish.

After Today's hostage rescue, the Christian Peaceniks released the following statement (CPT web site):

Our hearts are filled with joy today as we heard that Harmeet Singh Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember have been safely released in Baghdad. ...

We give thanks for the compassionate God who granted our friends courage and who sustained their spirits over the past months.
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We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit, call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being detained illegally by the U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.

During these past months, we have tasted of the pain that has been the daily bread of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Why have our loved ones been taken? Where are they being held? Under what conditions? How are they? Will they be released? When?

"Released?" Really? Not a single word of thanks for the efforts of the brave troops that saved these fools lives!

And they continue to defend their captors and not a single word for the children murdered by the car bombs and IEDs that those "illegally" detained were using to kill and spread terror in Iraq.

Not a single prayer or word of mention for the MILLIONS of Iraqis whose family members will NEVER return from the mass graves, prisons and torture chambers that Saddam filled for over a quarter century.

Perhaps one day these appeasers of genocidal butchers can explain what justice there is for Hekeema Nagiy (photo right) who cries as she searches for the bodies of her two missing sons at the mass graves in Hilla, Iraq. The leftwing Guardian newspaper from the U.K. has a photographic record of this crime here.

These Christian Peacemaker Teams are a sad bunch indeed! What Christian doesn't want to end violence, bring peace and restore Justice? Espcially to areas of the world scarred so long by evil?
Yet the CPT sends fools to Iraq to protest the actions of the only force for good in that troubled land: our coalition military forces.

The "peace at any price" crowd that these people represent show us the way to salvation: It is the peace of the grave at the hands of evil men.

Sorry, but if we ask "what would Jesus do?" I don't imagine his answer would be to submit to horrific torture and death at the hands of lunatics. He died for our sins so that we could live, not die.