The Deal with the Republican Guard

AR Action Report on line ^ | 04/15/03 | Walid Rabbah

[katana]

I'm not so certain about whether we can or cannot use "human shield" as a future cover, but in the worst case two things will happen. One, all those idiots will be looking at each other wondering which ones are "plants" (note to self: try to resist making puns about the human shield have broccoli for brains) and two, any regime they try to help out will probably tell them all go go f**k off.

Sounds to me like at worst we have pulled the plug on the "Human Shield" movement.

[Always Right]

OTOH, regarding the Human Shields.... remember when Baghdad Bob had them all rounded up and brought to the Palestine Hotel?

Oh I don't doubt that Arabs believe this, I just have a hard time buying it. I suppose it is possible, but most of this sounds to much like conspiracy stuff that isn't based on any actual knowledge.

[jra]

bttt

[js1138]

I'd love to see newscasts that have a truth index attached to them. Imagine hearing Dan Rather say, "The following report is believed to be at least 50% true."

[esopman]

"It was here where the al-Jazeera journalist Tariq Ayyoub was martyred."

The use of 'martyred' in the above sentence is emblematic of this entire screed. Mean, tricky infidels undermined and conquered a secular Arab state. Horrors!

This plays into the hands of the Islamicists who would like to think that: (a) The Arab fighters in Iraq really could have inflicted severe damage on the U.S. forces (if not win), had the treachery had not been involved; (b) A purer Islamic state would not have succumbed to said treachery; (c) The U.S. victory was not linked to military power or strategy.

There are no doubt some kernels of truth here, but that is just lipstick on this pig of a piece.

[Steve_Seattle]

This has absolutely nothing to do with this post, but I don't want to start a separate thread for this - who was the guy who used to invent those complicated contraptions to perform simple functions like lighting a cigarette? He used ramps and levers and pulleys etc.

[bert]

Rube Goldberg.....

[esopman]

The real author of this piece, Rube Goldberg.

[VeniVidiVici]

Elvis has left the building.

[Steve_Seattle]

Thanks to both of you - I always start out thinking his name was "Jules" something.

[SAJ]

Rube Goldberg.

[Poohbah]

While it sounds like a sexy story, I am not sure David Irving's Middle East sources are 'rock solid.' He was trumpeting that Brisith reporter who was denying that the US had taken the airport a few weeks ago.

You're thinking of Robert Fisk, whose surname is now a verb.

To "Fisk" someone is to take their written screed and rip it to shreds, disproving it on a sentence-by-sentence basis. The term originatied in the blogger community, because it became something of a pastime.

David Irving is the Brit Twit who says that the Holocaust never happened.

[Natural Law]

Sounds like a great deal.

"General Mohammed, we have some multi-million dollar cruise missiles with your name on them. You can have them or what is behind door number three..."