Iraqis: Please Pardon Our Women

The World According to Imal ^ | May 6, 2004 | Imal

[sweetliberty]

"We can't bury them in pigskins, so we went for the next best thing."

And I still fail to understand why.

[Ciexyz]

I find the whole incident depressing and turn off the TV when it comes on.

[Imal]

Yea BUT I GUESS THE MORE PUBLICITY THIS GETS THE LESS EFFECTIVE THAT WILL BE.

That's the beauty of a well-crafted operation. I can expound on this all the live long day, and it's still nothing more than a "black helicopter theory".

And the truth is, I honestly don't know one way or the other.

I am also convinced that this was done under the time-honored doctrine of "plausible deniability". I'm sure the President is honestly shocked and dismayed. This aint't the way they do it in Texas.

Secretary Rumsfeld, on the other hand, seems to be parsing his words far more carefully than even the President is in his carefully-parsed statements. I'm pretty sure he knows what really happened, whatever that may be.

Meanwhile, the outrageous images continue to ricochet throughout the Arab world, doing their pernicious work in attacking the very image of Arab manhood. Let's not forget that Arab women are also seeing these images.

And does anyone think for so much as a moment that those staged hecklers in the hearings today could have possibly gotten past the kind of security we have in Washington these days?

Among other things, I am a fan of good cinema. This is classic cinema.

Genius!

[Imal]

This is far better than the threat of pork. The greatest weakness the jihadis have is sex, and we're making damn sure everyone knows it, to their great collective embarrassment.

If they didn't have a "complex" about it before, they sure do now, and the effect is worldwide.

[GOPJ]

So, you're saying this is the equivalent of Saddam's dental exam?