Savage is kicking butt today !
Happy Rock n' Roll Friday to all Savage compatriots. It's time to rock, so LETS ROLL!!!!!!!Michael Savage plays from 7:00-10:00 P.M. here. So I have to wait.
Well, although I don't agree with every position or expression of Michael Savage, I'm very, very happy to see Michael get some exposure. It was beginning to look like many people on Free Republic had made a god out of Rush Limbaugh, who makes a god out of himself, and is often blasphemous (not just arrogant -- we can stomach some arrogance in obviously intelligent and successful people)in the way he introduces himself. Limbaugh either doesn't believe that there is a God, or he believes that God is disinterested in human concourse, and that his "every idle word" matters not to God.
I think Michael Savage also is ignorant about some attributes of God, but I believe that his careful avoidance of blasphemy is from a genuine heart.
GO MICHAEL!
Haditha: Blood Money, Lies and Videotape? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642134/posts
Would Muslims lie in order to obtain blood money payments? Some insight comes in this response to the collapse of the British trial posted online by a Baghdad-based US contractor.
I’ve been in Iraq for about 18 months now performing construction management. It is simply not possible for me to exaggerate the massive amounts of lies we wade through every single day. There is no way - absolutely none - to determine facts from bulls*** from these people.
To be fair to individual Iraqis, lying and deception is an integral part of their culture. It is not even considered lying to them; it is more akin to being clever - like keeping your cards close to your chest. And they don’t just lie to westerners. They believe that appearances--saving face--are of paramount importance. They lie to each other all the time about anything in order to leverage others on a deal or manipulate an outcome of some sort or cover up some major or minor embarrassment. It’s just how they do things, period.
I’m not trying to disparage them here. I get along great with a lot of them. But even among those that I like, if something happens I’ll get 50 wildly different stories, every time. There’s no comparison to it in any other part of the world where I’ve worked. The lying is ubiquitous and constant.
Obviously in the case of these soldiers, the “witnesses” were lying with malice for profit - saving face had nothing to do with it.
But every Westerner here has been taken totally by surprise by the lies upon lies upon BS and lies. It makes it impossible to form any agreements, impossible to plan anything, and impossible to investigate anything….
Remember this every time you see news reports where Iraqi “witnesses” say that American planes killed a bunch of civilians somewhere…. First, those people are living under the threat of terrorists in their midst - what do you think they are going to say when a western camera is thrust into their face, nice shot America! Death to the terrorists! They’d be dead in 5 minutes.
It drives those of us who work closely with the Iraqis absolutely mad. It makes me sick and alarmed to think of any westerner being brought up on charges of any kind based strictly on the words of an Arab. I’m sure the prosecutors were informed by field officers and others about the Iraqi propensity to lie about everything all the time. Shame on them (the British Ministry of Defense) for going forward without any other evidence.
and this posted by Sam Hill last night--Haditha doctor that examined the 24 "civilians" is a big America hater:
Haditha Doctor Was Arrested, Hates US Too
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642075/posts
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