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Defeats dismay Arab media
The Daily Telegraph ^
| April 7, 2003
| Gerald Butt
Posted on 04/06/2003 4:28:48 PM PDT by MadIvan
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To: Guillermo
Kind of reminds of what is happening to our childrens textbooks these days.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:45:55 PM PDT
by
oldtimer
To: MadIvan
There they go again!
To: MadIvan
Schadenfreude is an ugly emotion.
Yet highly appropriate here.
To: goldstategop
The Arabs......should take their heads out of the sand they've buried them in for a moment and face reality [instead of their dream world].
They won't do that before the liberals in the US do it -- and you know that ain't going to happen in my lifetime.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:49:39 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: MadIvan
"Why is he letting the Arabs down now," a Lebanese caller asked a phone-in programme, "when his forces fought so bravely in the south of the country?"I read a great article by Victor David-Hanson late last year. To answer critics that war in Iraq would inflame the Arab street, he said that the Arab street could tolerate many things. It could tolerate genocide, torture, and gender apartheid, but what the Arab street could not tolerate is the humiliation of defeat. When Saddam is defeated, the street will revile him as a traitor.
To: Nachum
Red zone....area surrounding Baghdad and the final 20 yards to the goal line in US football.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:50:57 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: MadIvan
"Why is he letting the Arabs down now," a Lebanese caller asked a phone-in programme, "when his forces fought so bravely in the south of the country?"
Simple: Because they don't believe that preserving Hussein's sadistic and brutal grip on power justifies dying.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:51:21 PM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: Cachelot
"You got the surprises, loser. Not the surprises you expected, but then you wuldn't have been surprised, see?
Now for the next... Syria? Iran?? "Palestine"????
So many losers, so much ammo..."
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:51:33 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(The weather, everyone talks about it, no one does anything about it!)
To: expatpat
Nor do I think there's any danger they'll give up any time soon their Thousand And One Nights fantasies. :)
To: MadIvan
Defeats dismay Arab media And a great deal of the United States media as well.
To: MadIvan; *war_list; W.O.T.; 11th_VA; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA; knak; sakka; ...
A defaced portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003. Iraqi troops and paramilitary fighters loyal to President Saddam Hussein held up a U.S. advance toward Baghdad on Sunday, inflicting casualties and taking American prisoners on the fourth day of war. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
To: MadIvan
Everything has been too easy so far, I'm just concerned that what's left of the Iraqi leadership has something bad in store for us. I wouldn't doubt the possibility that a nuke or a series of chem or bio are weapons ready to go off in Baghdad once there are enough coalition forces there.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:52:25 PM PDT
by
dasher
To: MadIvan
LOL!
It is as if they were losing a football game!
54
posted on
04/06/2003 4:52:38 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(Negotiate!! .............(((Blam!.)))........... "Now who else wants to negotiate?")
To: MadIvan
Those who face reality have a definite advantage over those who don't.
To: MadIvan
The Lebanese daily al-Nahar went one better, saying that "Saddam led the attack to retake the airport", while Akhbar al-Khaleej in Bahrain said: "We have wiped out the invading forces at the airport." pink pigs saw flying in the Baghdad sky... developing...
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:53:20 PM PDT
by
smith288
(Visit my gallery http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/hollywood/hollywood.php)
To: stripes1776
I read a great article by Victor David-Hanson late last year. To answer critics that war in Iraq would inflame the Arab street, he said that the Arab street could tolerate many things. It could tolerate genocide, torture, and gender apartheid, but what the Arab street could not tolerate is the humiliation of defeat. When Saddam is defeated, the street will revile him as a traitor.
Bingo.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:54:42 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: MadIvan
"The Lebanese daily al-Nahar went one better, saying that "Saddam led the attack to retake the airport", while Akhbar al-Khaleej in Bahrain said: "We have wiped out the invading forces at the airport."They must be getting imports from the poppy fields in Afghanistan and using the fruits of said poppys.
To: tet68
and the Iraqis who thank us for freeing them, and tell the truth about his regime will be seen as tools of the US...
sigh.
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:56:26 PM PDT
by
Keith
To: Bluntpoint
Sounds just like the posters on Democratic Underground.
Nah, these guys at least have SOME semblance of reality.
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