Behold, crybabies, the POWER and the RESOLVE of your new and eternal masters, dragging you kicking and screaming into a bold new concept known as MODERN CIVILIZATION.
Posted on 12/15/2003 10:11:23 AM PST by 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.
"I felt extremely humiliated," said Egyptian writer Sayyid Nassar, who interviewed Saddam three weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq on 20 March. "I felt it was not only a humiliation of Arabs but of all humanity.
"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.
"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.
Saddam's arrest "will not destroy the Iraqi resistance against the US occupier," and will encourage "feelings of Arab solidarity with the Iraqi fighters," he predicted.
"On the contrary, the resistance will grow and change shape," he warned.
"There will be a kind of creativity in acts of resistance, which will diversify and intensify to wash away their shame," he said.
The Egyptian Islamist lawyer Muntasir al-Zayyat agreed that Saddam's capture would "open the door wide to the resistance."
"It is true that we all deplored the humiliating way Saddam was arrested and his capture added to the feelings of frustration. However, the positive side is that it will intensify the resistance," he said.
"All opponents of Saddam, who refused to fight the American occupier for fear of being counted among the former president's supporters, will no longer hesitate to join the resistance," Zayyat said.
"The image that former president Saddam Hussein gave during his arrest by American occupation forces is a painful and shocking image," said Ibrahim Nafie, the editor in chief of the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram. "It's an image that no Arab wished for the president of one of the most important Arab states," Nafie wrote.
The Iraqi political analyst Ali al-Dabbagh, who lives in the United Arab Emirates, said Arabs were shocked and humiliated because of the "collapse of a myth" which forced "Arabs to face their sad reality and impotence.
"Many were those who were shocked that this 'hero', whom the media covered with a halo and glorious titles like the 'valorous', did not resist" US forces coming to arrest him, Dabbagh said.
"Suddenly, Arabs saw the true face of Saddam: a dwarf who did not have the courage to resist or even commit suicide as he had for so long claimed he would do," Dabbagh said.
"Such a confrontation with reality and the humiliation felt by his arrest by foreigners invites us to self-criticism and review ideas which force the Arab people to follow the propaganda (of their regimes) without examining things," he said.
The dictator's capture will cut his ties with his supporters and end their operations, "but will not wipe out the extremist groups which are pursuing their attacks," Dabbagh said.
The editor in chief of the Iraqi newspaper Al-Nahda, Jalal Machta, shared his opinion. "Saddam Hussein was like these gods of the pre-Islamic era, when animists fashioned an idol with date paste, then ended up eating the statue they worshipped," he said.
Behold, crybabies, the POWER and the RESOLVE of your new and eternal masters, dragging you kicking and screaming into a bold new concept known as MODERN CIVILIZATION.
I just heard Bill Press on MSNBC saying that there were NO WMD and NO link between Iraq and AQ.
No need to hire anybody; the press is doing their work for them.
I love that formulation. Saddam Hussein's regime:
Used rape as a political weapon.
Used torture as a political weapon.
Used poison gas on his own people.
Planned the assassination of a US President.
Fed people to shredders.
These are terror tactics. The man is a terrorist. The US is fighting a war against Terrorists.
No Al-Quaeda link? Who f****** cares??
Better get used to the feeling, Ishmaeli. We're just getting started.
Looks like Arabs aren't the only ones begging for humiliation.
There's quite a bit of circumstantial evidence, just not absolute proof. But we may get that proof once Saddam starts a-singin'.
Hey, I think they're catching on!
One can only hope that thousands of wannabe suicide bombers will wake up and smell the coffee.
Their "fearless leaders" are all a bunch of cowering faggots who hide behind women and children - or in filthy holes, while eager to send others on suicide missions.
The next time one of these young men is handed a bomb-belt he should hand it back and say, "You go first".
Wait until they see Saddam doing the perp walk in an orange jump suit.
Yeah, but too bad the Moslems destroyed it.
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