Some Liberation (Fig Leaf Alert)

Pakistan Dawn ^ | 4-11-03 | Ayaz Amir

[cgk]

Fig-Leaf alert reference: If you happen to read any muslim paper editorials, you'll see this phrase used frequently.

The Hitler reference is most telling.

Oh, the lies, the lies, the lies.

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[freebilly]

Nations with no heart or spirit in them are good for neither struggle nor progress.

Well, Amir, I think you've summed up the Arab world quite nicely....

[freebilly]

L- is for Loser
I- is for Idiot
A- is for A--hole
R- is for Retard
(my apologies to lurking retards)

[Cultural Jihad]

The story for the moment, beamed relentlessly around the world, is about the joyful scenes in Baghdad with the symbols of tyranny being smashed and the 'liberators' being welcomed.

And we understand the consternation about that is being experienced by him, by Arab nationalists, by paleos, by Democrats, and by leftists everywhere.

[cgk]

More fig leaf references:

"It would be folly if Washington thinks in terms of ruling Iraq by proxy by manoeuvring a puppet regime into power to serve as a fig leaf for occupation"
source: After Saddam, What?

"Today’s unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council to enforce the numerous prior resolutions flouted by Iraq was little more than a fig leaf providing the flimsiest of cover for the United States to wage war when it feels like it"
source: UN Resolution a Fig Leaf for the US

"As the build-up to war continues, it will likely become ever clearer that the UN is simply being used as a fig leaf for aggression and the public opinion advantages of any security council deal may well prove less significant than they now appear"
source: UN Being Used as a Fig Leaf for Aggression

"With the revelation that the much vaunted British Dossier on Irak (sic) is a bogus one and the obvious fact that the Powell number at the UN is in the same vein, and with the certainty now that the Security Council will not give its green light to attack Iraq, the U.S. and the UK won't have any fig leaf to hide the naked agression they are about to unleash onto tens of thousands of innocent civilians with certainly most lethal consequences."
source: Media Compilation: Earth Rainbow Network

"But it's beginning to look like Blix believes that his mission is not to discover Saddam Hussein's hidden arsenal but to produce a diplomatic fig leaf that could render war impossible."
Source (surprisingly...originally from LA Times):Will Blix See a Fig Leaf But Ignore Smoking Gun?

"(early snip)"an unelected and unstable government controlling a stock of deadly weapons ( Pakistan, and now, indeed, the US itself)"; "Just as the fig leaf of the US establishment’s respect for the sovereignty of other nations has finally fallen off, our own fig leaf, of being an ‘independent’ State backed by one of the world’s largest armies, is also fast yellowing and crumbling.
source: The Autumn of the Fig Leaf

"Unabashedly, Bush gave a speech on March 07, 2003, portraying the gathering dark clouds of a criminal war against Iraq, in the terms of a poker game. He challenged other countries opposed to the criminal war to "show their cards" while the U.S. and the U.K. would conveniently keep their cards hidden. Lest he misses the point, he is playing a game of Russian roulette, and his fig leaf has fallen."
Source: (former Iraqi nuclear scientist)The Fig Leaf of Moral Impotence

"The UN was created and is sustained by the major powers in order to provide a fig leaf for imperialism and a distraction for resistance movements."
source: (socialist alternative, haha) Can UN Weapons Inspections Avert a War?

There's many many more. A strange phrase to use.

[cgk]

To correct my supposition in the opener, "if you read any Muslim paper editorials/libleftie hate rants, etc."

It ain't just the muslims, Mrs. Jones. :)

[Cultural Jihad]

He even used the term 'neo-con' in his essay. Perhaps he's a Pat Buchanan/Lew Rockwell/Lyndon LaRouche/Harry Browne supporter in a parallel universe somewhere. ;)

[cgk]

"Should the world of Islam allow itself to be kicked around for as long as this goal is not achieved?" (article snip)

And the world of (radical, fundamental) Islam's goals? (maybe all of them, but I suspect the writer is a Wahabbi).

1. Drive Israel into the Mediterranean Sea.

2. Kill all Christians.

3. Kill all Infidels.

4. Kill all your young men. (see: "martyr")

5. Kill the Zionist Imperialist Pigs.

6. Inhabit land, then claim it has always been yours, and "holy."

7. Laugh all the way to the mosque.

8. Did I mention... Kill?

9. Throw children as young as toddlers in jail if their parents don't voice support for your oppression.

10. Butcher, torture, maim your own people and blame it on the infidels.

11. Butcher, torture, maim your enemies and blame it on the infidels.

12. Rape every woman you come across, especially if they work for CNN.

13. Kill those women you raped if they complain.

14. Leave your family father-less, husband-less, earner-less when you blow yourself up in the name of Allah.

15. Kill some more infidels.

16. Die trying, or else.

17. Head up to that Great Mosque in the sky where 72 virgins await you.

18. Make momma Mullah proud.

Lofty goals aren't they?

[cgk]

"He even used the term 'neo-con' in his essay"

Thank you. Now I know that a neo-con is Buchanan/Rockwell/LaRouche/Browne.

So what is a paleo-con? (sheepish)

[Cultural Jihad]

No, he used the term 'neo-con' as a derision, as a paleo such as Pat or Lew or Lyndon or Harry would.

[frosty snowman]

You got it kinda backwards. Buchanan/Rockwell are the paleo-cons. Browne is a libertarian (does this qualify as paleo?). LaRouche is just a nutball.

Neo-con is the paleo-con term of derision for non-paleo conservatives they don't like.

[nutmeg]

For sheer panache and bravado a special prize must go to the Iraqi information minister, Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahaf. Cool and not without humour, he was spitting defiance right until the end. Brit and American military spokesmen have lambasted him for carrying denial to new heights. May be so, but his press conferences are likely to be counted amongst the enduring images of this war.

Uh, yeah... the biggest enduring laughingstock of this war!

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[Cultural Jihad]

Uh, yeah... the biggest enduring fantasies of this war!

[general_re]

So what is a paleo-con?

A dinosaur on the verge of extinction.

[hellinahandcart]

Saddam may have been, was, a tyrant and a butcher. But this war was not about eliminating tyranny and butchery or giving Iraq democracy.

Well, that's true. Liberation wasn't the meat and potatoes. It was the gravy. :D

[stanz]

This morning, I watched the Com Central briefing at 7:00. A British reported asked Gen. Brooks about the deck of 55 cards given to the troops containing the pictures of regime fugitives and wanted to know if the Minister of Information was included in the pack as the joker. The place cracked up.

[nutmeg]

LOL! Baghdad Bob as the Joker... Great idea! I'd buy that deck of cards!

[nutmeg]

Please see #17. Do you make playing cards? :-)

[Luna]

Hitler was more polished, infinitely more intelligent. He did his own thinking and was no one's cat's paw

And Hitler of course was evil, occupied most of Europe in order to force his Nazi socialism on the conquered, and sent 6 million Jews to their deaths. I suppose you forgot that while writing your stupid article? But I suppose Hitler is a hero in your eyes?