Comments on: Jill Carroll and her Former Hosts Captors

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:22:00 +0000

I feel sorry for anyone who would say the things Jill Carroll said in order to gain her freedom or keep her life.

And I feel contempt for anyone who, without themselves having been in any such situation, self-righteously claims he would do otherwise. Jill Carroll has nothing to apologize for. You do.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:03:43 +0000

This whole ordeal is wrong from the start. I feel sorry for this woman and all she went through, however it outrages me that other Americans died who were held captive. This woman was set free because she gave them what she wanted. I also believe the Christian Science Monitor paid for her release. That should not have been allowed to happen. They didn’t pay it because they wanted to keep her alive. They wanted it so they could get their name out there and promote their own propaganda. I think someone should look into this and find out if there was a ransom paid. In this investigation if the United States Government knew it was going to be paid then that’s just another example of poor leadership that we have. Americas policy is we do not give in to terrorist.

I have been reading how everyone says that if they were in the same place they may have done the same thing. I feel sorry for anyone who would say the things Jill Carroll said in order to gain her freedom or keep her life. What should have been in the back of her mind was they are only using me as a pawn. I would rather stand up against them kicking and screaming about how they have no honor and that they are nothing more than the scum of the earth.

Many of you will say this was a peaceful resolution. Think again. This was meerly a ploy to gain trust so that they continue their operation and plans to hit us again.

Jill Carroll will have to live with what she has done for as long as she lives now. I’m sure she will have many to tell her she done the right thing. In my eyes and I sure others she is seen as a trader. She felt that her life was more important than her own ideals and beliefs as well as the ideals and beliefs of all the others who have given their life to promote freedom and democracy.

By: Vbos

Vbos — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:14:35 +0000

Her behavior after the fact just doesn’t reflect the trauma that she went through, but you are right, she feared retribution and I understand that she had to say what she had to say to stay alive and survive the ordeal,under the same circumnstances many of us might do the same thing.

By: JimB

JimB — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:58:23 +0000

She is said to have graduated from University of Mass and was a writer for the school paper. I’ve read that she was ultra liberal (Akerikka, etc.) This will be interesting to watch. BTW, people that knowlingly place themselves in extreme danger, and by doing so place our soldiers in the same position, lack a certain measure of common sense.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:45:59 +0000

Vbos, either you have very strange concepts of "normal" and "good" treatment, or you don't have your basic facts straight. In the brief period since she has been freed, Carroll has made it clear that:

She was coerced at gunpoint (three of 'em, but who's counting?) to make the propaganda video that idiots like Debbie Schlussel are screaming about (OK, so maybe she didn't single out that idiot Debbie Schlussel by name, but you get the drift). [UPDATE: Oops, see the second update to this post. Apparently, for a brief moment I mixed up the idiot Debbie Schlussel, who spews her own special brand of unfounded claims about Carroll, with other idiot bloggers, who spew a slightly different brand of unfounded claims about Carroll. Apparently, in Schlussel-Land this means I should be the one apologizing, not her. Whatever.]
She still feared retribution from her (former) captors at the time of her interview with the Islamic Party - the other semi-public statements idiots like Debbie Schlussel are so exercised about.
In fact, she was threatened many times while in captivity - but you already knew that, right?
While in captivity, she was confined to a small, soundproof room with opaque windows.
She abhors her captors, but for kidnapping her and for murdering translator.
She has cooperated fully with the U.S. military since her release.
Her entire period of captivity was "like falling off a cliff for three months, waiting to hit the ground."

WTF else is she supposed to say?! That her last name really isn't Hearst, or that she's never been to Stockholm?

By: Vbos

Vbos — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:15:51 +0000

I just feel there is something wrong with the whole kidnapping. First, she is a christian and it seems odd to me that she was treated so well. Second, I’m in the military and I have never seen anyone who has been rescued or has escaped acting the way she has. She seems so normal considering what she has experienced, is almost as if it never happened and the people that were kidnapped with her were never mistreated or killed. Time will tell I guess. I don’t really want to criticize too much without enough evidence.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:07:14 +0000

Either that, or they are just as desperate to score cheap political points as you.

By: irving

irving — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:43:51 +0000

Most of the comments about Jill Carroll are as ignorant and incompetent as the right-wing administration that provided the reason for her to be in Iraq.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:37:52 +0000

X: Thanks for the link :)

I seriously don’t understand why she doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt. People are weird.

By: itsme

itsme — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:50:30 +0000

D-Hoggs :

Maybe you could show us exactly which “previous Anti-American statments and writings of Caroll’s” you mean.

Be specific.