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Al Jazeera: Saddam humiliation could fire up resistance
Al Jazeera ^
| Monday 15 December 2003
Posted on 12/15/2003 10:11:23 AM PST by presidio9
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:11:23 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
*Yawn*.... this is the same "Arab street" that rose up when all arabs were humiliated at the weak defenses of Baghdad?
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:13:41 AM PST
by
smith288
("The United States has a system of taxation by confession." - Hugo Black,Supreme Court Justice)
To: presidio9
John Kerry should hire these guys for his Campaign. "The Senator's single digit results in the NH and SC primaries are exactly the sort of primary returns we were looking for at this stage. We have not yet begun to fight. These events will energize our supporters who will now flock to the polls in record numbers. Our secret weapons will turn the tide! Gotterdammerung is approaching!!"
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:16:11 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
To: presidio9
You know...
I have great respect for the achievments and history of Arabic civilization.
But any culture that relies on someone like Saddam as a source of pride needs to do some serious self-examination. There's something deeply wrong with that. It's not a good thing for a culture.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:16:19 AM PST
by
HarryCaul
To: presidio9; Texaggie79
"By shaving his beard, a symbol of virility in Iraq and in the Arab world, the Americans committed an act that symbolizes humiliation in our region, where getting shaved by one's enemy means robbing him of his will," he said. Uh. Saddam didn't have a beard prior to the war. These people are nuts.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:16:21 AM PST
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: presidio9
"It's also a humiliation for all Arab leaders and a message telling them that he who does not enter the poultry yard of the Americans will experience the same fate," he said.
Good. That should make things easier.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:17:21 AM PST
by
dyed_in_the_wool
("Have we actually cut the head of the snake or is he just an idiot hiding in a hole?")
To: presidio9
"So we are witnessing right now the war's critical turning point in these the most historic of times. What has been amazing about the war so far is not that we have been winning, but that we have been doing so quite unlike our increasingly exhausted enemies without the full mobilization of our vast economic, political, material, and human resources."From Victor Davis Hanson's recent article Critical Mass.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:17:38 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: presidio9
"By shaving his beard, a symbol of virility in Iraq and in the Arab world, the Americans committed an act that symbolizes humiliation in our region, where getting shaved by one's enemy means robbing him of his will," he said. I think it's safe to say that Saddam had been robbed of his will long before his beard was shaved...
To: smith288
All Muslims were born mad and angry. It just does not matter what other people do or don't do. They are always foaming at the mouth.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:18:04 AM PST
by
tessalu
To: presidio9
Hey AlDiareah:
F--- Off!
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:18:48 AM PST
by
petercooper
(Proud VRWC Neanderthal)
To: presidio9
"By shaving his beard, a symbol of virility in Iraq and in the Arab world, the Americans committed an act that symbolizes humiliation in our region, where getting shaved by one's enemy means robbing him of his will," he said. Do all arabs have the emotional maturity of a 5 year old? Or is it just this guy?
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:19:38 AM PST
by
Inyokern
To: presidio9
The humiliating images of Saddam Hussein's capture by US forces risk increasing Arab support for the Iraqi resistance and sharpening their appetite for revenge, analysts said on Monday. While I'm sure images of Saddam gallantly shooting it out with the Great Satan would have caused mass surrendering? The simple fact of the matter is that there is a percentage of Islamic yahoos that wish to kill Americans regardless of the circumstances. That's not news, but sometimes the globe could use a reminder.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:20:08 AM PST
by
Mr. Bird
To: dyed_in_the_wool
Good. That should make things easier. We should do like the English did -- schedule time on Al Jazerra, execute a Muslim and bury him with 2 pigs.
Then say that will be what happens to anyone who attacks or even looks sideways wrong at American and their support forces.
The same could be used for the broader WOT. Kill an American, get killed and buried with pork.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:20:32 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
To: smith288
Right! The arab street will really rise up this time!!!
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:22:02 AM PST
by
gipper81
To: presidio9
Well, the two Egyptian figures interviewed certainly seem a bit off their feed.
And they were dancing in the streets in Iraq. So tell me - why is it that they're "humiliated" in Cairo and jubilant in Baghdad? It's long past time we shifted focus a bit to the Egyptian roots of radical Islam.
To: presidio9
By shaving his bla bla bla bla Allah shall bla bla and unleash a holy bla bla bla that shall never end until bla bla and infidels are bla bla bla...
This paraphrases all arabic terrorist journalists and their rantings forever more.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:23:47 AM PST
by
Naspino
(I am in no way associated with the views expressed in your posts.)
To: presidio9
Sounds like Fisk or Hersh. Do you suppose they ghost write for Al-Jazeera?
To: presidio9
"It's also a humiliation for all Arab leaders and a message
telling them that he who does not enter the poultry yard of the Americans will
experience the same fate," I'd rather use a pig sty than a poultry yard, but as long as they get the message it'll have to do.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:24:09 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
("Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.")
To: presidio9
"It's also a humiliation for all Arab leaders and a message telling them that he who does not enter the poultry yard of the Americans will experience the same fate," he said. Sour grapes, dude. But yeah, that's the message all right. Better pay attention... his treatment by us wasn't nearly as humiliating as what the Iraquis may do to him.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:24:40 AM PST
by
Kenton
(This space for rent)
To: smith288; ClearCase_guy; Mr. Bird; danneskjold; BrooklynGOP; dyed_in_the_wool; HarryCaul; ...
Be sure to click on the link and FReep the poll. Currently 41% of our camel-riding brethern say that Saddam's capture will not weaken resistance.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:25:50 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
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