Comments on: Video: Hostage Margaret Hassan Begs for Release

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:19:32 +0000

I would have said this before Margaret had been killed but is even more true now. The people who wrote those naive comments above are just one example of people who dont think before they come up with an opinion. You saw the video, how do you know what is going on behind the scenes. Im sure Margaret wasnt given the cosy decision of talking or not. She probably had the choice of being tortured and then killed if she didnt make the statement she made. You people insult Margaret with your brave words, maybe you could have offered to take her place so your brave words could have been heard instead? Or why dont you go over to Iraq and tell the murderers what you think of them. Cowards. She was a brave woman who had to endure god knows what off camera and didnt deserve it, neither did any of them. Im sure she would have been most grateful to hear your kind words of support.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:37:11 +0000

Wow, I hope you really sit down and think about what you just said. Because now it appears that she's been killed. I'm pretty disgusted with what a few of you have suggested. You must have seen the videos. She was pleading for her life. She was terrified. Think about it. Think about how how she must have felt.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:32:07 +0000

I must say that I agree with Penni. You can think what you want, but until you are in that situation how would you know what you would do. Yea I think I would like to say "Go to Hell", but if there was a chance that pleading would work I would do it.

By: Penni

Penni — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:06:55 +0000

The fact that Margaret Hassan continued to serve and work for so many years knowing the dangers only confirms the strength of her character and the goodness of her heart. How bloody easy it is for you "meanies" to sit in the comfort and safety of your homes and decide how hostages should behave and what they should say. I wonder how tough you'd be if you or someone you loved were in such a situation! And how would you feel if you saw people posting comments like these you've just made?

Shame on all of you!

By: Suzi

Suzi — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:59:38 +0000

The whole thing, I think is sick.

By: Attila Girl

Attila Girl — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:52:12 +0000

Yeah, I'm with Mark Steyn--ruin their videotapes. Refuse to say anything they want you to. Take off the hood. Don't play along with the nice butchers.

By: Meezer

Meezer — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:52:15 +0000

I'm a meanie, too, Teri. I have the very same questions. And I'd like to see a woman making with the "watch how a free woman dies, you yellow curs!" instead of the "we're all so sorry" rif.

By: Teri

Teri — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:36:24 +0000

I hate to be a meanie, but I have my doubts about this whole situation. Remember the two Italian ladies who were kidnapped and let go? As I understand it, they "volunteered" to be kidnapped and then when they were "released" went back to Italy and lobbied for the kidnappers' cause. This woman has been in Iraq so long, it just makes me wonder if this is all for real. I know it looks awful, but once burned, twice shy, and it's hard to believe that someone who spent thirty years doing charity work in a country would be given to such histrionics. She's lived there through two wars and all of Saddam's insanity, and she acts as though it never occurred to her that something could go wrong. I am a big meanie. Sorry.