SO LONG, BOYS

New York Post ^ | 7/25/03 | NILES LATHEM

[kattracks]

July 25, 2003 -- WASHINGTON

[King Prout]

Is there any reason we cannot simply erect a series of pikes in downtown Baghdad?

[Caipirabob]

Can we ask the DNC for volunteers?

[King Prout]

yes... so long as all of those who do not step forward become pike-bound :)

[dennisw]

Is there any reason we cannot simply erect a series of pikes in downtown Baghdad?...........

Heads on pikes (AKA monkey on a stick) is the way to go with the Islamics. They want to know for sure that the bast@rd is D E A D

[King Prout]

cripes! *I* want to know for sure that the bastiches are dead. That this would defile their corpses - especially if a coat of lard is also involved - is mere icing, if a tasty one.
There is a place for barbaric measures, even in the supposedly civilized modern world.

[BushCountry]

No matter how hard we try, this would not be politically acceptable. I was thinking maybe we can bury them in unmarked graves or a marked grave: Uday - Mass Murderer and rapist - His death could not come soon enough. The location of the grave should be in the pit of a pig farm, under a sewage facitily, or maybe one of the sites of mass murder that have been cleared so the ghost of his victums can haunt him.

[King Prout]

xm177e2 on a separate thread on the same topic had a very good idea: turn the bodies over to the interim government for "proper" dispos -ah!- "burial"

[Pontiac]

The decision by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make public the after-death photographs comes despite a longstanding Pentagon policy to bitterly protest when the bodies of American soldiers are shown to the media in conflicts.

I find this bit obscene. To compare two mass murderers to our noble warriors is simply obscene.

Uday and Qusay were not soldiers they were despots who killed, maimed, raped and ordered the murder of thousand of their fellow countrymen.

To compare these most fowl beast to our noble dead is beyond the pale.

[Carolina]

To compare these most fowl beast to our noble dead is beyond the pale.

And you should have heard the outrage masquerading as questions directed at Rumsfeld yesterday. Mention of "erosion of moral high ground," and "concerns" about compromising American soldiers in the future with respect to the Geneva Conventions. The press was in its full perverse glory yesterday, as it is everyday.

[Simcha7]

Your post # 6...

"bastiches"

Are you coining a "New" word here?!

Please give the definition, of your "new" word, thank you!

[King Prout]

I don't remember where I first heard or saw the word "bastich" but it is merely an idiosyncratic version of the usual term of disparagement.