Hey, thanks for that link !! I want that kind of info to use while making
more graphs of Miss Progresso ! ...
Posted on 11/02/2003 8:33:52 AM PST by nwrep
Cairo, Egypt-AP -- There are celebrations reported across the Arab world, after the news of more American casualties in Iraq.
Resistance to the occupation is applauded by some who see it as proof that Iraqis weren't totally humiliated by the relative ease of the U-S-led coalition's toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Many Arabs had warned an invasion of Iraq could drag the region into chaos. In Damascus today, foreign ministers from countries bordering Iraq again called on the U-S to restore order in that country.
Well, the AP is partially right -- they're cheering in Fallujah, where they hate us anyhow, most likely spurred on by the media -- but I doubt that Iraqis in general are cheering.
You do have to wonder if the greater Arab world will eventually consume itself in the fire of hate and resentment fanned by their refusal to accept their own failures.
From News24.com (South Africa):
Joy at strikes on US
02/11/2003 19:14 - (SA)
Cairo, Egypt - It's not just Iraqis in that country's most fiercely anti-American region who celebrate attacks like one on Sunday that brought down a US helicopter and killed at least 15 soldiers.
Across the Arab world, such strikes are applauded as resistance to occupation and stirring proof that Iraqis were not completely humiliated by the relative ease with which a US-led coalition toppled Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath Party regime.
The reaction is no surprise given pre-war opposition among many Arabs to a US-led invasion and warnings from their governments that violence in Iraq could drag the region into chaos.
At a meeting in Damascus on Sunday, foreign ministers from countries bordering Iraq and others in the region repeated calls on the United States to restore order in Iraq.
Some, though, wonder whether what they see as a pointed anti-American tone can be productive.
"The Americans are not getting what they deserve, the Americans are suffering from trying to put Iraqi politics on the right track," Jordanian businessman Amer Muasher said on Sunday. "The people who are suffering are the ordinary Iraqis. .... But the Iraqis had put themselves in such a situation because they accepted the tyranny of Saddam Hussein."
In Egypt, US Ambassador C David Welch has accused Egyptian commentators of spending too much time criticising America and too little exploring how Iraqis might benefit from the fall of Saddam. Egyptian journalists responded by declaring a boycott of Welch.
"Iraq is now building the glory of the (Arab) community," Mustafa Bakri, editor-in-chief of the Egyptian weekly Al-Osboa, declared in his on Sunday column.
Samir Ragab, editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Gomhouria, wrote in his Sunday column: "Every citizen who lives in Iraq, be they Ba'athist or anti-Ba'athist, whether they support or oppose Saddam, will stand up and shout at the top of his lungs: `We will chase the Americans and their followers until they leave their home ashamed and defeated."
Their comments followed a particularly bloody week in Iraq.
Sunday was the deadliest day for American troops in their six-month occupation of Iraq, with a US Chinook helicopter hit by a missile and crashing west of Baghdad. At least 15 soldiers were killed and more than 20 wounded, the US command and witnesses reported.
Iraqi villagers displayed charred pieces of wreckage like trophies to reporters and in nearby Fallujah, centre of opposition to the Americans, townspeople celebrated on the streets.
Some Arab observers are disturbed to see international aid workers and Iraqis attacked along with the Americans.
Under the headline: "More than a crime: a political mistake!" Talal Salman, publisher of Lebanon's As-Safir newspaper, urged Iraqis to choose their targets carefully.
"There is a huge difference between the bombing which targeted a hotel known to be the base for occupation officials and their followers, and the crimes of mass murder that took place ... against the Red Cross and Iraqi police stations and groups of Iraqi citizens," Salman wrote.
"Precision in specifying the target is the sharpest resistance weapon."
FLASHBACK : Election night 2000
FOX NEWS 1st TV network to say Gore won FL
BEFORE 2nd time zone in FL had finished voting.
I have read with some amusement your Fox bashing, but I had to respond because while you must be allowed your own opinions, you are not allowed to have your own FACTS. Where did you get your information for your 'FLASHBACK' to 'Election night 2000'? Did you just pull it out of your ass???
It was NBC/MSNBC that first 'pulled the trigger' for Gore in Florida at 7:49:40pm, followed by CBS/CNN at 7:50:11pm, next VNS (Voter News Service) at 7:52:00pm immediately followed by FOX at 7:52:01pm, the AP at 7:53:00pm, and finally ABC making the last call at 8:02:00pm.
Source: ON-AIR NETWORK AND VNS CALLS, PRESIDENTIAL RACE, NOV. 7/8, 2000
Source: At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election, by Bill Sammon. Regnery Publishing, Inc. Washington, D.C., 2001
Now rant all you wish, but get your facts straight before you rant...
dvwjr
Thank you !
One of many is right.The 'RATS dumped Gephardt, whom I disliked plenty, and put in Pelosi in his place as minority leader. What a BIG turn left they made. Some of the stuff she has done since has made Gephardt look like a real swell fella in comparison. She is one HATEFUL bi**h, imho.
I'll be working on more graphs of Pelosi ! hehe ! ...
In Iraq, there were the ones getting oppressed, and the ones getting paid to oppress. The people in the later group are not getting their paychecks. This makes them unhappy, and it's all our fault.
We need to insert a new police force in the Sadaam-supporter strongholds -- composed entirely of Kurds who had family members gassed. The place will get cleaned up
Hey, thanks for that link !! I want that kind of info to use while making
more graphs of Miss Progresso ! ...
Why do you think that Fox's broadcast of the celebrations is bad?
I WANT the American people to see the Muslims celebrating the deaths of Americans.
I want the American people to see the Muslims as they really are
That way, it will be real hard to drum up any sympathy from the soccer moms when we stomp Mecca into the ground.
This might be the whole idea behind Fox's coverage
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