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On One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe [Barf Alert]
Washington Post ^ | 1/23/05 | Jackie Spinner

Posted on 01/22/2005 8:42:57 PM PST by saquin

BAGHDAD -- The day after the soldiers came, Imaad ordered his mother to go through her refrigerator and pantry and throw out all the cheese that had been made outside of Iraq. He went around and collected any images of Westerners in the house, threw them in a pile and burned them until they were floating bits of ash. He struck his mother repeatedly and forbade her to watch foreign news or movie channels on their new television.

The Americans were "the devil," Imaad ranted.

By all accounts, Imaad, 32, was a typical, mild-mannered college graduate who spoke English well and had quietly supported the U.S. presence in Iraq -- until Jan. 5, the night the soldiers came.

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To: saquin
Hm, a thirteen year old girl is raped by her adult brother. Who will be punished? The girl. The Iranian government plans to stone her to death for immoral behavior.

A father forces hiss fifteen year old daughter to marry her father's brother. She runs away after being told her Uncle/groom had killed his first wife. Who will be punished? She is murdered in an honor killing committed by her father and brother.

A man hides a cache of girl magazines under his bed. They are displayed along with a Koran. Who will be punished? The man's mother. The embarrassment of having his girly magazines displayed gives the man just cause for beating his mother.

Is there a pattern here?

21 posted on 01/22/2005 9:56:12 PM PST by Irish Queen
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To: mc6809e
No one goes from one esteem to the other that quick even
if he was embarrassed.

Consider that he wasn't pro American in the first place and
then this all makes sense.

Of course I am using my judgment of the facts just as you
are.

My money is on a Mother beater anti American before the
soldiers got there.
22 posted on 01/22/2005 10:31:21 PM PST by cleo1939
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To: saquin

You can invade my country, overthrow my dictator, cause some collateral damage here and there, but don't you Americans dare mix my girlie mags with my Koran!


23 posted on 01/22/2005 10:36:59 PM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: saquin

Where I come from, if you are living at home at age 32 YOU ARE A F%@king bum who doesn't deserve life. Imaad deserves to die for eating French cheese while beating off to German porn.


24 posted on 01/22/2005 10:56:46 PM PST by RasterMaster (Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
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To: saquin

Let me tell you of the day I turned from being an accepting American who had compassion for woprthy causes.
It was the day last year that My nephew was killed in Iraq. From that day on the Iraquis and arab muslims can rot with the devil they throw their lot with.
He was a wonderful Marine Lieutenant killed trying to bring peace and stability to these animals.
I don't care how this puke is angry with the U.S., and as a Christion I know it is wrong to hate but there will always be hate for these dogs from me.


25 posted on 01/23/2005 3:53:17 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: mc6809e
These soldiers need to be professionals.

I mean no disrespect, but What planet are you posting from?
26 posted on 01/23/2005 3:56:09 AM PST by Beckwith (John Kerry has now met with the enemy during war two times, in 1970 and again in 2005.)
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To: saquin

To sum it up in one sentence: IT'S ALL PRESIDENT BUSH'S FAULT! Even Ann Coulter could spare the bandwidth on this one. But not Jack Spinner. Spinner? Now there's a name that fits in with his America Makes Arabs Hate Her template. Typical legacy media liberal journalist.


27 posted on 01/23/2005 4:01:01 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: denydenydeny

Actually, the hair on the palm of his hands is what's really worrying him.


28 posted on 01/23/2005 4:03:42 AM PST by hershey
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To: RasterMaster

That was my first thought - why's the 32 year old man still living with his momma. I'm sure there's a good reason.


29 posted on 01/23/2005 5:35:18 AM PST by Indiana Girl
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To: dighton; general_re; saquin
Jackie [is a] Spinner

At least.

30 posted on 01/23/2005 6:58:29 AM PST by aculeus
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To: dighton; general_re; saquin
Tim Blair has a funny take on this.
31 posted on 01/23/2005 8:26:41 AM PST by aculeus
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To: aculeus; IowaHawk; BlueLancer; Poohbah; hellinahandcart; Constitution Day
HA!

Pinging some others for a look.

32 posted on 01/23/2005 9:04:47 AM PST by dighton
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To: aculeus
Tim Blair has a funny take on this.

Jackie Spinner = Useful Idiot.

"And then, Jackie, the American soldiers cooked a pork roast and forced my entire family to eat it at gun point. They then forced us to cook our little pet dog and serve it to them and made us give them napkins that were pages torn out of the Koran."

"Gasp! Why,.....that's.....that's just horrible!!!"

"Yes, Jackie, it is. I then went from friend to foe of the Americans that night. When will your article be printed?"

33 posted on 01/23/2005 9:19:10 AM PST by Polybius
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To: saquin

From the article: "The neighborhood is known to harbor insurgents." Kind of says it all.


34 posted on 01/23/2005 9:29:08 AM PST by unbalanced but fair
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To: mc6809e
I'm actually sympathetic to him. Why? Because the soldiers were being jerks to an innocent man who had no power.

What possible reason could you have to believe this?

If this story is true, I'll eat my monitor.

35 posted on 01/23/2005 12:52:56 PM PST by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: aculeus
Another hilarious take on this story:

I Thought I Would Die of Embarrassment

36 posted on 01/23/2005 3:16:09 PM PST by saquin
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To: mc6809e
When innocent people are bullied, this is the sort of thing that happens to them.

More likely he's panicked at the Imams finding out about his girly mags - and will come looking to see what else is in the house - thus the tossing of everything not from Iraq. He's probably having nightmares about a bread knife in close proximity to his neck...and hoping his screaming that the Americans are devils may keep him out of the frying pan - or off the chopping block

This Pulitzer Prize wannabee writer hasn't a clue, only an agenda.

37 posted on 01/23/2005 5:21:14 PM PST by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: saquin

By girly magazines... they probably mean that the soldiers found "Play Girl" and other gay magazines that girls like to read.

Being gay is a capital offense by most extremist Muslim standards.


38 posted on 01/23/2005 5:26:13 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: hinckley buzzard
throw out all the cheese that had been made outside of Iraq

Change "Iraq" to "France", and it sounds like an edict from the EU.

39 posted on 01/23/2005 5:26:14 PM PST by P.O.E. (FReeping - even better than flossing.)
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To: saquin

Jackie Spinner is a proud graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her MJ:

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/students/mystory/spinner.html


40 posted on 01/23/2005 6:29:36 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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