Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated' [arabs dancing in street alert!]

LONDON – Much of the world expressed shock, grief and condolences Saturday for the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew, but some in the Arab world saw the tragedy as divine justice against the United States and Israel.

But on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, where many are braced for U.S. military action, some said the loss of the shuttle and its crew was God's retribution.

"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar Quraishi told Reuters news service. "God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us."

Noting that among the dead was Col. Ramon, a fighter pilot who participated in a 1981 bombing attack that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, car mechanic Mohammed Jaber Tamini said: "Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason. Now time has come, and God has retaliated to their aggression."

If America is attacked, it will not be the America-hating, God-denying, abortion-demanding, degenerate Leftists that will die on the battlefield. For the most part, those who will die on the battlefield will have Conservative values.

Not really. Most of the casualties this time will be inner city inhabitants and workers, just like the last time, and the reason for this is that they are the easiest targets.

"We always see those same 20 people celebrating. Got anything new?"

Woops - almost forgot (re: my post #120).

THIS TIME it will be U.S. TROOPS singing and dancing in the streets.

Accompanied by a few hundred thousand Iraqis completely overwhelmed with joy at the sight of Saddam's head on a stick in the middle of BaggieDaddy.

"I talked to God and he told me that he wasn't going to be responsible for an old shuttle falling to pieces since he had given us enough money to build new ones and we had failed to do so"

Truer words never spoken!

Not really. Most of the casualties this time will be inner city inhabitants and workers, just like the last time, and the reason for this is that they are the easiest targets.

That is Bravo Sierra.

"Minorities make up 35 percent of the military, and blacks 20 percent, well above their proportion of the general population," Rangel wrote. The Pentagon released the number on minorities in the volunteer army on Jan. 13; 21 percent of the enlisted force is black (and blacks comprise 15 percent of infantry, armored and artillery units), while 12 percent of the U.S. population is black. In the Gulf War, however, minorities didn't suffer more casualties than whites. African Americans accounted for 23 percent of troops sent, and 17 percent of the deaths, The Washington Times reported; Hispanics represented 4 percent of Gulf War troops and 4 percent of deaths, while whites made up 71 percent of Gulf War troops, and 76 percent of Gulf War deaths.

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