Posted on 01/30/2005 11:31:54 PM PST by saquin
BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- The young man wore a winter jacket over his explosive vest and approached the polling station with his hands in the pockets.
"Take your hands out of your pockets," said Ali Jabur, the Iraqi police officer in charge of patting down voters on the street outside. The young man obliged by throwing his arms wide, and blew them both to bits.
Three hours later, in streets still littered with the bomber's remains, some very determined voters streamed into the Badr Kobra High School for Girls, intent on casting the ballots that they called a repudiation of the terrorist attacks meant to scare them away.
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So the polling place reopened. On the advice of the U.S. troops, the security perimeter was pushed back a block, so people could be frisked twice before entering the school.
Though performing this duty meant standing amid flecks of the flesh of the last officer who had the job, there were volunteers. In stepping forward to do the first round of pat-downs themselves, local residents explained that they could raise the alert if another suspicious stranger approached.
"The police might not be able to recognize residents; we know them better," said Zaid Abdulhamid, an electronics merchant.
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These people are fantastic. Let freedom ring!
What a story , we, and the Iraqi people are winning big time!.
However, this line made me chuckle:
...because this is terrorism mixed with RUDENESS,"
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Those police officers just keep signing up for suicide jobs no matter the cost.
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is it possible that all these police officers BELIEVE that they will go straight to paradise for their success stopping a martyrcide bomber?
(like the thousands of children clearing the mine fields after the iraq-iran-war.)
I applaud the courage of these voters.
We have more than 10 times the population of Iraq. I wonder what would happen on our next election day if we knew that more than 300 Americans might be murdered just for trying to vote.
"Are the rats EVER capable of looking at something good and not destroying it?"
Not in my experience. But if you ever find one that's being positive about anything Republicans, Iraqi citizens or Americans accomplish, other than for their own political gain, please let me know. ;)
(Look to moderate Democrats for that; but they're just blowin' smoke. And immediately discount anything Hitlery says; you can tell she's lying if her lips are moving.)
Well, we can guess. Look what happens when a Dhimmi-cRAT gets a speeding ticket ten blocks away from a polling place.
"...because this is terrorism mixed with RUDENESS,""
I know. That cracked me up too. Not only are they blowing people up... they're RUDE!
And not one hanging chad either. The Iraqis courage was unforgettable.
NO, the real left leaning progressives are really NIHILISTS , feel they must destroy this society to make way for their new Utopia.
...because this is terrorism mixed with RUDENESS,"<./i>
LOL. Heavens, yes, who could mind being blown up by a polite, well-mannered terrorist, but a RUDE one is just intolerable!:)
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