Ungrateful

The anti-war activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams who were being held captive in Iraq have been rescued by U.S. and British special forces.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and British troops Thursday freed three Christian peace activists in rural Iraq without firing a shot, ending a four-month hostage drama in which an American among the group was shot to death and dumped on a Baghdad street.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, the U.S. military spokesman, said the hostages were being held by a “kidnapping cell,” and the operation to free the captives was based on information from a man captured by U.S. forces only three hours earlier.
No kidnappers were present when the troops broke into a house in western Baghdad. The captives’ hands were tied, Lynch said.
“They were bound, they were together, there were no kidnappers in the areas,” Lynch told a news briefing.

Of course, “rescue” isn’t the word being used by this moonbat group.

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.

Safely released? They were rescued by men with guns who chased their murdering captors away.
Read the whole statement from Christian Peacemaker Teams above. Notice that not once is thanks given to the troops who did the rescuing. The only time the military is mentioned, in fact, is to blame them for the fact that the kidnapping took place in the first place.
Kind of disgusting, no? A man without my better sense might say that it would have been better to just leave them there. That’s not right, though. It is good that they’ve been rescued and are out of the hands of those monsters. But still, what miserable people.
Sadly, though, this is symptomatic of the anti-war left in general. When you don’t believe that a war is just you can’t ever see your way clear to appreciate what our troops are doing. Not even when they rescue you from people who were hold you captive and murdered your friend.
Update by likwidshoe: It seems that their own words were embarrassing them. The opening sentence now reads:

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