A belated kinda-sorta thank you has been posted on the CPT website. Apparently, the CPT has decided they need to recognize the men who rescued their team members after all. 
 
Addenda 23 March 2006, 9 p.m. ET
 
 
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Bad news, Red. CPT has thanked the soldiers for rescuing their “peace” workers (well, a sort-of thank you). There goes your beautiful theory.

Reality bites, eh Red? And whining about it won’t help, either.

I agree sir!! I guess it just really riles me when these guys went there to make sure that the “evil” Americans did not abuse the poor Iraqi people, and then these guys are kidnapped by Iraqis, one of them is shot and dumped, they are rescued by the very troops they “dislike” (Not sure if that’s the right word to use but you know what I mean) and then their group cannot even publicly acknowledge that they were rescued, not “released”.

I do hope more details emerge, but you cannot blame people for being upset that this group is cursing the same troops that rescued their members.

I’m just saying that it might be better to wait for the facts to emerge rather than whipping up a frenzy of outrage about the supposed “ingratitude” of these Christian peace activists and making speculations about whether it was a “rescue” or an arranged “release.”

For the record, personally, I think their being in a war zone in the first place is the height of stupidity, but that’s beside the point.

As far as the lack of captors. If 50 of your brethren had just been taken captive, as was the case at the Iraqi police station a few hours earlier, would you hang around thinking that all 50 of those guys are going to keep their mouths shut??? I wouldn’t. I would stay a safe distance off for a day or two and see if anybody shows up to free them. They didn’t move them to a new safe place, for the same reason. The captors had no idea who talked and what they said. It was only logical to haul butt outta there. – Lorica

I think irony goes very well with the four Christians that went to Iraq they expected to be welcome by the Terrorist with open arms by showing there solidarity with them. That was what they expected and we all now know what actually happened or occurred.

I don’t think religion and irony go well together, muslim or christian.

There are a lot of reasons for the reactions that are explained both in my post and at MM’s, for starters. People are human, afterall, and when they see our troops putting it on the line to rescue the Christian activists, and then the Christian group they are part of issues a statement initially calling them “illegal occupiers”, I think the reaction is perfectly understandable. You yourself have had visceral reactions about things related to the Iraq war, haven’t you, stuff you’ve probably regretted saying later?

There were no kidnappers/terrorists there when the hostages were “rescued” so, yeah, I guess I do kind of dispute that. And no, I don’t know what went on behind the scenes other than there were a lot of hints dropped today that negotiations had been ongoing. So you connect the dots. Even better, how about waiting for the FACTS to emerge. Now there’s a concept!

Maybe that survey was correct. Good grief, you people ARE whiney.

There was honking. There was singing. There was praying. There was dancing. There were signs, strollers, speakers, and there were shoes. Lots of shoes.

Beyond the group’s willingness to lie (the rescue was called a “release”), it also went out of its way to slime the coalition forces who risked death to save three of its members. Forget what may (or may not) have gone on “behind the scenes”: This group’s actions have been absolutely vile – before, during, and after the kidnapping.

Just who is really blinded by hate here?

What a crock!!