Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance

Reuters ^ | 2.1.03

[mhking]

Per Reuters:

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Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance

Sat February 1, 2003 02:08 PM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first Israeli in space -- was that its was God's retribution on Americans. "We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said.

"God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us," he said.

Car mechanic Mohammed Jaber al-Tamini noted Israeli air force Colonel Ilan Ramon was among the dead when the shuttle broke up shortly before its return to earth.

"Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason (in 1981), now time has come and God has retaliated to their aggression," Tamini said.

[mhking]

I'm tired of this.

It's time to take these parasitic predators out.

[LiteKeeper]

Lock and load!

[RightWhale]

It's time to take these parasitic predators out.

They sure picked a bad time to hurl insults. We're in a bad mood.

[Ol' Sox]

These cats are about to find out what "smite" means.

[Dog Gone]

They are not trying very hard to get on our good side, are they?

[ewing]

I am really holding back saying what I really want to say..something I will have to apologize for at church tomorrow!

[Howlin]

I wonder how the Hollywood crowd and the Democrats will feel about this.

[Howlin]

Go ahead.

[Brett66]

I knew they would say something like this, make your time Saddam you have no chance to survive.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

No more inspections. No more UN debate. The peaceniks and the RATS can go be human shields if they want, because we should just blast those bastards back into the Stone Age.

[ladyinred]

I knew these evil people would be saying this. So glad that our President quoted the scripture he did during his address to the nation.

[Cagey]

Did we expect them to say otherwise?

[swheats]

This is unbelievable. The gloating is sickening.

[Moby Grape]

Those sorry bastards are about to know about God's revenge.......they only got a small dose the last time they faced the "mother of all battles" in which they promptly turned into running cowards.

[freedumb2003]

Lets send this to Susan Sarandon, Robert Redford, Barbra Steiesand and all the evil people at the ANSWER and DU!!!

Print this in BIG letters and put it on a placquard when the anti-american self-hating scum protest against us attacking "innocent" Iraq.

[6ppc]

Nuke 'em right NOW!

[Freeper Lady]

I was waiting for their depraved comments. They are so predictable.

And I suppose, Saddam, holding a hot iron to a child is God's will too?