"We want them alive - This is not our war!"

"Politically correct"...

I have heard this sentence so many times that I am quite sick with it.

It all sounds nice and "shiny"...but what about the case when human lives are involved?
Should we stay "cool", do the game of " political super-powers" and not care?

Well, it seems like the human spirit has not yet died in Romania.
I read in an online press review that tens of people gathered in the past days in Bucharest and other cities to express their solidarity with the Romanians kidnapped in Iraq.

Simple story: 4 Romanians are kidnapped in Iraq.
Kidnappers ask for money or Romanian troops out of Iraq or the kidnapped people die.
The deadline was the day before yesterday. Luckily the kidnapped people are still alive.

An excerpt from "Jurnalul National", a Romanian daily newspaper telling about this:

"In an attempt to soften the Government in its decision of not giving up the blackmail, in the last public demonstration people in Bucharest asked for the withdrawal of the troops from Iraq. The people present at the meeting, together with a lot of passers by, signed in a notebook for the withdrawal of the troops.

Posters with the three journalists and Xerox copies of Munaf were being held in the air. A lady was holding in her hand a sacred image of the Holly Virgin, a wooden cross and a picture of Munaf.

The people gathered in the University Plaza shouted: "Don’t let them die!", "Romania in the streets!", "Withdraw the troops!", "Basescu, help!", Basescu, you promised!", "We don’t want mourning!", "Like in Timisoara!", "We are not leaving!", "Basescu, you have children!", "This is not our war!", "We want them alive!".

About two or three hundreds of people left the University Plaza for the Victoria Palace (where headquarters of the Goverment is). Many of them were students and pensioners. Slogans like "Free them!", "Come with us!" or the names of the kidnapped journalists didn’t have much of an effect on the hurried passers by.An old man was standing in front of the column showing his watch to show that time was running out for our colleagues. In front of the Democratic Party (PD) headquarters on the Ana Ipatescu Boulevard, the column shouted: "The Alliance is sleeping!" and "Shame!".

In front of the Victoria Palace, the people sat on their knees and prayed under the untouched eyes of the guards. The shouting continued, a group of women was crying while holding in there hands pictures of Marie-Jeanne, Eduard and Sorin. Nothing moved in the Government building. One of the protesters said: "We have probably disturbed Tariceanu (Prime Minister) from lunch. I hope he swallows the wrong way."

So? I guess the officials still try to be politically correct, even if peopel come out on streets ...
I strongly hope this whole situation will end without anybody getting hurt.

Dumnezeu sa-i apere!