Bush says terrorists are responsible for Baghdad terrorism. Nonsense, say experts
by JohnHuang2
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Well, that does it. If events this week aren't proof enough that Democrats were right -- that the chilling Boykin videotapes would make Islamofascists really, really mad at the 'ol Great Satan -- I don't know what could be. To recount, in a series of secretly recorded videotapes, the top Pentagon official, a suspected Christian, is seen and heard threatening al-Qaeda with further U.S. reprisals for Sept. 11. Even worse, say Democrats, Gen. Boykin injects religion into this war, something Islamofascists have been very careful not to do. More outrageous still, Boykin says Islamoterrorists follow a false god, or idol. He accused Osama of religious intolerance just because Osama hates Christians and Jews. As I noted last week, we Great Satan fans must be very careful here -- ascribing religious motives to Islamofascists can be quite a stretch. When some Islamowackjob calmly chants, DEATH TO INFIDELS!!!, or DIE, INFIDEL DIE!!!, who's to say such chants aren't just eloquent expressions opposing our policy against Fidel -- Cuba's secular communist leader? DIE, YOU ZIONIST IMPERIALIST DOG!! is another warm and fuzzy that, say Boykin critics, has nothing to do with Jews or religion. The slogan merely implores Bush not to act unilaterally -- like a ZIONIST IMPERIALIST DOG!! -- but seek U.N. and French approval before launching military action or tax cuts. (Bush's 'Go-it-alone' approach in foreign affairs really irks the heck out of al-Qaeda). We should welcome such lucid expressions as notable signs of progress.
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But we haven't. Even worse, say Democrats, not only was Boykin reckless in linking Islamoterrorism with Islamists, but he failed to remind Islamists of just how peaceful they are, prompting Islamists to launch an angry wave of terror this week. What's really weird is how these Islamists somehow knew about the chilling Boykin videotapes months before the tapes were aired or even discovered. A division commander told the AP that the rocket attack Sunday on the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad "required 'some reconnaissance and some rehearsal,' and possibly two months' preparation." Imagine being mad as hell about a videotape you don't even know exists yet. That's gotta be hard. (North Korea's Kim Jong Il seemingly has the same mysterious powers. Kimmy abandoned written pledges to freeze all nuclear weapons programs while Bush was governor of Texas, blaming Bush's reckless 'Axis of Evil' speech, which frightened Kimmy years before the speech was written).
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The next day, on Monday, a coordinated wave of suicide bombing attacks killed 3 dozen people, injuring over 200, Baghdad's worse killing-spree since the fall of Baghdad last April. Although press reports note the love-fest coincides with the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, we should refrain from making such connections, lest we fall into the Boykin mindset. No way could violence on the start of Ramadan have anything to do with the start of Ramadan. After all, recall that the U.S., during the Afghan and Gulf War campaigns, was strongly urged to cease hostilities during Ramadan, lest we offend the Wahhabis and Talibanis, making them really, really mad. Why risk offending the Taliban by killing them on Ramadan, when you can whack 'em any other month of the year? Bush ignored such pleas for restraint, and the Talibanis died furious.
Again, the point is there's no way this Ramadan killing-spree has anything to do with religion. It's obviously all Gen. Boykin's fault, and we INFIDEL ZIONIST IMPERIALIST DOGS should stop making excuses for Boykin.
Iraq war critics note that, except for the 350,000 Muslims shot, gassed or run through people-shredders under Saddam, the death of 40 Muslims in Iraq is unprecedented. Anyway, Saddam didn't really mean to kill that many people. Or he did, but the U.N. sanctions and Bush made him do it. At any rate, the killing under Saddam was far less messy, Saddam opting for bullets and people-shredders, rather than messy car-bombs that tie up traffic in Baghdad and rudely disrupt Happy Hour for U.N. suits in New York.
The Bush administration oddly calls the latest wave of terrorism terrorism, acts commited by desperate killers who hate freedom and who seek to disrupt progress -- claims hotly challenged by media experts and Democrats as silly. Blowing up a powerful military colossus like dangerous Red Cross headquarters and killing dangerous patients lying in hospital beds and pregnant women on street corners isn't terrorism, they note, but brave and daring acts of guerrilla resistance to a brutal Halliburton-led occupation which has brutally restored electricity to prewar levels, brutally restored water and sanitation, brutally renovated 1,500 schools, brutally raised teacher and doctor salaries, brutally vaccinated millions of children, brutally allowed newspapers to flourish, brutally reopened all schools, brutally allowed the country to be infested with free elections and locally elected councils. Wake up and smell the brutality, folks! With so much dangerous freedom running rampant, experts wonder what this world is coming to.
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Red Cross headquarters, secretly controlled by Harken Energy, Skull and Bones, and Donald Rumsfeld, is just the tip of the brutal occupation iceberg, knowledgeable experts and Democrats knowledeably note. All 240 of Iraq's deadly hospitals still remain, armed with stockpiles of precision-guided hospital beds, while thousands of dangerous pregnant women and millions of school children remain unkilled, a threat to the security of the brave resistance. (No word yet how soon these menacing threats will be taken out by the brave resistance). Ominously, the streets of Baghdad still teem with unkilled shoppers buying-up air-conditioners, dishes, designer clothing, refrigerators, tickets to movies, sporting events and other threatening activities.
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Experts also note that the brave guerrilla fighters, by shooting and car-bombing Iraqi civilians, are bound to become very popular with Iraqi civilians, wooing hearts and minds of those who haven't been shot or bombed yet. The Fedayeen will be welcomed as liberators from the clutches of Halliburton and Dick Cheney! Months of Condoleezza Rice occupation will finally be over! No more press freedoms! No more equality! Unfree at last! Unfree at last! Yes! Let's face it; the Iraqi people, deep down, are like people everywhere, deep down. They yearn for 1-way thrill-rides through people-shredders, the quiet peace and repose of mass graves, the sexual fireworks of rape rooms, the memorable sensations of torture chambers, the stimulating effects of electric shock.
Then again, if man-on-the-street interviews of Iraqi civilians on Tuesday are any indication, the brave Iraqi resistance faces a long, hard slog to win hearts and minds over, even with Monday's truly bold moves.
"The people who did this are not Iraqis -- they are from other countries," The AP quotes Najah Shamon, "a luggage vendor," as saying. Obviously, Najah isn't listening to experts on Iraq, who know how much Iraqis, deep down, hate freedom. Najah hates freedom too, she just doesn't know it yet. Najah doesn't know Najah as well as experts like Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw know Najah. Knowledgeable experts maintain that groups blowing up grandma and uncle Khalid at the local grocery store are really her liberators. She just doesn't know it. So who's doing the bombing and killing? "I accuse al-Qaeda," says Najah. Regrettably, Najah isn't following the New York Times editorial page which assures us there is no al-Qaeda link to Iraq. Or, maybe now there is, but it's all Bush's fault.
The President seems a bit confused as well, asserting in a wide-ranging news conference Tuesday that "foreign terrorists" are behind some of the mayhem, alluding to attackers captured carrying Syrian passports. But that doesn't prove anything, say experts. We know Iraqis are born clenching a Syrian passport!
Anyway, the latest killing-spree isn't the work of foreigners, but brave Iraqi resistance fighters killing and maiming Iraqi civilians in order to give 'em a generous prescription drug benefit. (Democrat strategists also believe the Jihadi attacks are because Bush was so rude to the French).
"This is not human," the AP quotes grocery store owner Remon David Tuma as saying. "If they think Americans are the enemy, why are they hurting Iraqis?" Obviously, our friend Tuma here needs to get up to speed with AP military experts -- experts like Sonya Ross, who, quoting a Mid-East expert, wrote Tuesday that "'The United States is under severe attack by people who want the U.S. out of Iraq.'" In other words, the U.S. is under severe attack by people who can't hit the side of a mountain. They want to hit Americans, but, dadgummit, they miss their target almost every time. When it comes to killing Yankees, these guys are Osama-lite.
Which, come to think of it, is why Democrats face a long, hard slog to win hearts and minds here in the U.S. Without a huge GI body-count, they'll never get voters to see Iraq as Vietnam and the war as a Miserable Failure. Which is why they're hoping the recent killing-spree is just target practice. Dream on, Democrats. Dream on.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents...
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