"The U.S. likes to think that all it confronts are a few die-hard Saddamists, but..."

The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | August 16, 2003 | Paul McGeough

[RLK]

Speaking through an interpreter, he continues in guttural Arabic: "Our fighters are protecting our religion. We cannot allow foreigners to occupy our country."

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Yup.

[Uncle Miltie]

Well a man come on the 6 o’clock news
Said somebody’s been shot, somebody’s been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn’t get too far yeah
They didn’t get too far

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, and crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ’em all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down
You can bet he’ll set ’em down ’cause

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

[RobbyS]

I think I would have a long talk with this reporter.

[RobbyS]

I think I would have a long talk with this reporter.

[PGalt]

"This struggle is not about Saddam. It's about our country and our God. Our aim is not to have power or to rule the country. We just want the US out and for the word of Allah to be the power in Iraq.".....

The sick, irrational mind of the anti-freedom collectivist

[xm177e2]

This is the third mission for Ahmed, a 32-year-old who has inherited family wealth, including a factory and a farm, and the fourth for Haqi, a 25-year-old Baghdad taxi-driver who defers to Ahmed as "my instructor".

But... but I thought the headline said this was a widespread phenomenon, and not just a couple spoiled rich kids whose parents were Saddamites?

[cake_crumb]

Now would be a good time to mention that the US does NOT think that all we face are a few die-hard Saddamists. There are Iranian subversives, al Qaeda, al Aqsa, al etc. over there, all wanting to kill us. They're drawn from all over the Arab world to Iraq and Afghanistan hoping to take a wack at the infidel Americans.

They're not defending their religion, they're trying to take over the world.

The author is an idiot, who has obviously been assimilated.

[xm177e2]

Then he repeats the argument in much of the anti-American graffiti around Baghdad: "We suffered under Saddam and we hate him, but we would put him in our hearts ahead of a Christian or a Jew, because he is a Muslim."

Arab Muslims can be so tolerant, can't they? Some prefer the FAKE Muslim Saddam who went on a decades-long torture/murder/rape spree though the country to a devout "Person of the Book" like Dubya.

Luckily, most of the Muslims in Iraq aren't like that.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Er, Ahmed, If we wanted to, we could have turned your entire country into a broiling cauldron of molten silicates within a few minutes, you ignorant fool. Second, if we were so inclined, we could easily take every one of your vaunted militants upon capture and send them running down your neighborhood street in flames after having been doused in gasoline and set afiire. And this would be the least that we could do.

[altayann]

But...but, then why is one of this guy's assistants a taxi driver if it's only the rich who are opposed to Saddam?

Denial: such a wonderful thing.

[okie01]

"But... but I thought the headline said this was a widespread phenomenon, and not just a couple spoiled rich kids whose parents were Saddamites?"

The headline says what the reporter wants to believe. And what the spoiled rich kid Iraqi "freedom fighters" want him to believe.

The poor dupe...

[Travis McGee]

It is a week before the attack, and we are in the garden at the comfortable home of one of his relatives in a west Baghdad suburb.

Anyone who grew fat and comfy under Saddam was a Saddamist. Period. Anyone who claims otherwise is a fool.

[Imperialist]

Right on!

[Travis McGee]

The U.S. military in Iraq is like a giant crackling purple bug zapper light, attracting all of the Islamocrazies in the world to their doom.

Come on, fly at the light.

ZAP!

Better they go to Iraq to meet our snipers, than they come to America to meet our kids.

[InterceptPoint]

"Our fighters are protecting our religion. We cannot allow foreigners to occupy our country."

Standard al-Qaeda garbage.

The 911 attack was supposed to send a message to the U.S. that we should get out of the "Holy Lands" in the middle east. Fast forward and you now have American soldiers in control of Iraq and Afghanistan so Osama is peddling backwards pretty fast toward his goal.

I smell Iran and Syria in all this and pretty soon there will be American soldiers walking those streets as well. When that happens the sponsors of idiots like this guy will be long gone.

[blam]

"Come on, fly at the light.

ZAP!"

I like it when you talk like that.

[WOSG]

"We now have a single, jihadist leadership group that operates nationally. Everything is done on instructions carried by messengers. There are 35 men in my cell and I'm a leader of three other cells. The number of foreigners who are coming to help us is increasing - Syrian, Palestinian, Saudi and Qatari.

Islamofascist opposition rears its ugly head.

Okay, now all we need are Iraqis who dont believe in this cr*p to stand against it and help us build the free Iraqi Republic ... any takers?

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Then he repeats the argument in much of the anti-American graffiti around Baghdad: "We suffered under Saddam and we hate him, but we would put him in our hearts ahead of a Christian or a Jew, because he is a Muslim."

Be careful, folks. Read between the lines. Remember that this war has nothing to do with race or religion. Be really, really nice to all the good Muslims in the world, and especially in the USA. Because Islam is a religion of peace, and all non-Muslims are infidels and dogs and deserve nothing but death, rape, torture, and to serve as slaves to Muslims...etc., etc.. < /sarcasm >

Islam has institutionalized deceit. In a Muslim's system of morality, nothing he/she could do to a non-Muslim (especially a Christian or Jew) can be considered bad. If they lie to us (non-Muslim Westerners), they can quite truthfully, from their perspective, say they never lied, because we are not people in their eyes. Lying to us would be like lying to a dog or a pig, i.e. conceptually an idiotic idea.

Bottom line: NEVER, ever, trust a Muslim. The more "devout" they become, the more evil and dangerous they are to everyone else.

SFS