Thomas Hamill, who escaped capture in Iraq, has given his first interview since returning to the United States on FoxNews with Rita Cosby.
Cosby asked Hamill questions about the ordeal, from the ambush, to the horrors of being held captive. Towards the end, she asked him if he’d return to Iraq:
HAMILL: Yes, I would go back. I don’t have a problem. You know what it’s like. There’s nothing that’s being hidden. I’ve got to make a little peace with my wife and my kids over this. I don’t want any problems with them in the future; I don’t want my kids worrying about this. It was different when I went over there. They really weren’t worried. But since this has happened, I don’t want to affect their lives.
COSBY: What would you like to say to President Bush? Do you think you’ll get a chance to meet him?
HAMILL: That was the main reason I went over there. President Bush has made me proud to be an American. We’re making a stand and we’re doing the right thing.
COSBY: What do you want to say to all the other folks? Of course, you know there’s a few others still being held there.
HAMILL: I’m praying for the families … The ones that are going over, these soldiers, if there any hostages in the future that they can resist and they can pray and they can come home like I did.
He has quite a story, and his sense of duty is remarkable. You need to read the entire transcript in order to better understand what he went through. After all that, he still believes they’re doing the right thing and is proud of the work they’re doing.
May 9th, 2004 at 7:58 pm
Escaped hostage Thomas Hamill: “President Bush has made me proud to be an American.”
COSBY: Would you go back to Iraq? HAMILL: Yes, I would go back. I don’t have a problem. You know what it’s like. There’s nothing that’s being hidden. I’ve got to make a little peace with my wife and…
May 10th, 2004 at 12:40 am
He certainly sounds like a proud mercenary. It sounds like he was doing a great job for Halliburton before getting captured. Get back over there and make Dick Cheney’s wallet proud.
May 10th, 2004 at 6:15 am
Have some more Kool-Aid, Ed.
May 10th, 2004 at 12:52 pm
Thank God Thomas Hamill escaped alive, unlike the 11 guys whp died in insurgent attacks that day. Otherwise he never would have been mentioned at all. Seriously, Ed Mohler makes a point. The mercenaries are there in Iraq because we don’t have enough troops. As it is, deployments are getting extended beyond their initial one year lengths. Whenever another the insurgency or terrorist attacks ratchet up the bloodshed more, Bush just says “It will not shake our resolve and we must stay the course” but I don’t even think Bush knows what that course is or where it is going.
May 10th, 2004 at 1:26 pm
lmao! No mention of the fact that the cunt got medical care while being held…unlike his opposites in the US run prison there. The Iraqis sure treat their prisoners a lot nicer than the US does.
May 10th, 2004 at 4:12 pm
Matt– you’ve received a much deserved write-up and award. Congratulations!! Also, that election projection doesn’t look too good right now.
http://ludis.blogspot.com/2004_04_11_ludis_archive.html#108173033391642649
May 10th, 2004 at 4:59 pm
No mention of the fact that the cunt got medical care while being held…unlike his opposites in the US run prison there. The Iraqis sure treat their prisoners a lot nicer than the US does.
Todd, go take your meds and lie face down - on the interstate. I’d tell you to sit down but I know your bum-bum hurts real bad after Uncle Brutus and the plunger.
May 10th, 2004 at 6:38 pm
Thanks for reminding us, Ed Koala— Mr Hamill works for Haliburton so that automatically makes him a mercenary.
BTW, anyone else not get their HaliburtonBushCheneyOligarchyFoxNewsVastWingConspiracy check this month. It’s already May 10th, and I’ve got that mortgage payment on my beachfront mansion due in 5 days…
May 10th, 2004 at 6:53 pm
“He certainly sounds like a proud mercenary. It sounds like he was doing a great job for Halliburton before getting captured. Get back over there and make Dick Cheney’s wallet proud.”
Bet you wouldn’t have the balls to say that to his face, would you, Edwina, you stupid little assnugget?
May 10th, 2004 at 7:00 pm
The Iraqis sure treat their prisoners a lot nicer than the US does.
Oh, HELL yeah! Especially Ol’ Saddam. Brother, give me being fed in a wood chipper to being led about by a doggie collar any day! WOO HOO!! That’s the ticket!
(/sarcasm)
May 10th, 2004 at 7:03 pm
ms heather,
I spoke to Dick about this persoanlly yesterday, and he promised he’d have our checks out on the next Black Helicopter flight.
May 10th, 2004 at 7:17 pm
What’s up with all these DU ‘B-List’ Trolls with 3rd Stage, No Balls, Girly-Boy names like Todd and Brian???
Their dads probably pay their ‘Mistresses’ big bucks for the privilege of barking like a dog and humping her heels, while wearing her collar.
At least their comments reflect that uninformed, Socialist Indoctrinated, Cranial/Rectally Inserted POV.
May 10th, 2004 at 7:26 pm
LC Red,
I don’t see anyone posting here named Brian except for myself. And I am by no means a DU Troll. You may actually recognize me as a fellow LC, I just don’t use that title anywhere but at the AIR>
And if you’ll look closer, you’ll see that my comments reflect a good deal of sarcasm, as I was attempting to lamppon the leftist position.
So think twice before you flame an ally’s name, will ya? And my father was twice the man anyone here could ever hope to be, so I’ll just pretend you didn’t make that last comment.
May 10th, 2004 at 7:32 pm
My apologies, Brian.
Was scrolling up and found the wrong name (yours)
Saw the name, missed the mesage.
Still want to know what kind of name is ‘Todd’.
May 10th, 2004 at 7:36 pm
Good grief, these trolls are even MORE oxygen-starved than usual. They must have accidentally lubed up with Preparation H instead of their usual K-Y Jelly before they inserted their heads up their asses for the day. Maybe they’ll cut off their blood supply and pass out. Not that that would make much of a difference in their general disposition…
–TwoDragons
May 10th, 2004 at 7:38 pm
‘Pology accepted.
Don’t hold Todd’s name against him, the screeching, howling feces-fling of a post he left leads me to believe he’s some sort of lab animal in one of those Koko-the-gorilla-sign-language type experiments, not a human, so he was probably named Todd by his handlers.
May 10th, 2004 at 7:38 pm
Whoops, I meant “this troll is”, not “these trolls are”…
I can only defend myself by stating that I was distracted by the gleam of my shiny new Rottweiler mug and failed to preview my comment. Really!
–TwoDragons
May 10th, 2004 at 7:46 pm
The Rottie Mug does make for a Regal Brew, M’Lady Two Dragons.
Always tempted to take mine to work.
Afraid some chapeau de annes might steal it.
So it stays at home.
May 10th, 2004 at 8:32 pm
Holy Crap, Matt!
What happened? Has the Daily Kotz started banning the dumbest of his sycophants, leaving them with nowhere else to go?
May 11th, 2004 at 11:18 am
yawn you losers insulting me can do so freely. You can’t change what’s true. And I bring it to you cunts. That Hamill faggot got medical care by his captors. That’s documented fact. The US prisoners get tortured. As you all now know, of course you wouldn’t believe me when I said it, but thanks to the pics I am exhonerated. FUCK YOU! Hahahahahahaha. you guys are dumb cunts. And I hope your brothers and cousins get blown to shit in Iraq. That’d make me bust a nut in your bitch’s face.
May 11th, 2004 at 11:40 am
What a world you live in todd, everyone who disagrees with you is a cunt or a faggot. I was sorry to see that you are going to have offspring, as the moonbat population is already growing out of control. I hope your wife has some sense, your kids will need it.
That Hammil “faggot” as you call him wouldn’t have needed medical care if those fucknuggets hadn’t, you know, shot him. It’s a good thing they took him hostage then huh? Clearly the Americans wouldn’t have cared. Your thinking is so clouded, perhaps you should put down the bong.
I know this won’t help, as you seem to have deluded yourself into the notion that the US is eeeeeevil, and that what we saw in those photos is in some way the norm. It is not. It is, however, the norm for these thugs to kill, torture and rape whoever they damn well please.
Do us all a favor and breed no more.
May 11th, 2004 at 1:00 pm
FYI Toddles–
That “faggot” only took the job because his farm was failing, and he needed to take care of his family.
That’s a foreign concept I’m sure to you leftists, but some of us actually don’t want handouts from the government. We want to work and take care of our families by ourselves.
May 13th, 2004 at 9:56 am
President Bush’s overall approval rating has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, 44 percent.
May 25th, 2004 at 7:51 am
Keep an open mind, here is some bigotry for bush supporters
May 25th, 2004 at 7:52 am
http://home.earthlink.net/~robx/Bush/Bush.html
May 25th, 2004 at 7:53 am
http://home.earthlink.net/~robx/Bush/Bush.html