Comments on: Eat your words, Jonah: Carroll was coerced

By: All Things Beautiful

All Things Beautiful — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:28:18 +0000

Suspicion (FURTHER UPDATED)

UPDATE IX: The London Telegraph attacks the right wing Blogosphere in a major way….Embittered’, the ever hateful and bitter Mahablog, who cannot string two words together without spitting out venom, who calls me “ever-brainless” and a “dimwitt”

By: LynnB

LynnB — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:16:30 +0000

Ditto what Maggie45 said.

It’s beyond my comprehension how people can sit in the comfort and safety of their homes here in the USA and pass judgment on a woman who has just endured 82 days of captivity in the hands of brutal religious fanatics who believe that their power to abuse and terminate the lives of Westerners demonstrates the power of their god. I suspect that most of Jill Carroll’s detractors would have been reduced to a stinking pile of anxiousness to say whatever was asked of them within minutes under similar circumstances.

I don’t care whether Carroll is (or was) a patriot, a pacifist, a Communist or even (absent illegal conduct) a terrorist sympathizer. She has a right to her opinion. I might disagree with it. I might call her out on it (later). But last time I looked, that right was protected by our Constitution.

Lest we forget what it is we’re fighting for over there, it’s the right of all people, Iraqis, Americans and everyone else, to continue to have that very freedom.

By: Maggie45

Maggie45 — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:48:56 +0000

Thank you, Meryl. If I had been Jill Carroll, sitting in that house all those months, with nothing but time to think about what happened to Nick Berg and others, I know I would have said anything that my captors asked me to if I thought I had any chance to be freed(and I think that’s something one just doesn’t give up on, that flame of hope). Thank God she’s home.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:16:25 +0000

And, once again, Li'l Mamzer, that has squat to do with Jill Carroll. But you keep insisting you weren't wrong because all those other people meant things the way you thought Jill Carroll did. I'll keep pointing out, ad nauseum, that none of that has anything to do with Jill Carroll. You. Were. Wrong. It doesn't matter what those other people did, thought, said, wrote, or dreamed. The only facts that mattered were what Jill Carroll did, and under what circumstances. The fact that you are utterly unable to admit that does not speak well of you. Jill Carroll was used as a pawn in a propaganda war. She was used by her captors, and she was used again by the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party, where her kidnappers dropped her off. (And if anyone thinks that it's sheer coincidence that that happened, talk to me about a bridge for sale.) She has disavowed all of the statements made on videotape. All of them. Not just some of them. All of them. You. Were. Wrong. Unless you can come up with evidence to the contrary, give it up.

By: Li'l Mamzer

Li'l Mamzer — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:37:07 +0000

As long as the CSM keeps and promotes the likes of Helena Cobban to represent their worldview, I will likely remain sensitized to anything I see or read that is connected to it.

Jill Carroll has decided to make a career at the CSM. I believe there is meaning in that.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:15:55 +0000

What I object to is the way the MSM made it look as if Ms. Carroll had made her statements after she was completely free and not while she was still in the hands of the terrorists (masquerading as a "neutral" third party.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:08:07 +0000

I guess some people just don’t appreciate what it’s like to be kidnapped, threatened, and tortured by a ruthless, maniacal enemy. Of course, some people still think Yassar Arafat deserved a Nobel Peace Prize…

Yassar Arafat is in stable condition two years after dying in a Paris Hostpital…

CPL