May 16, 2004
SELFLESS
Jeremy Duncan is the poster boy for
selfless service, not only to his country but also to his friends.
Jeremy Duncan returned from Iraq last June and will go back this August, but he will be giving new life here at home. He will be donating a kidney.
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ABSENTEE
This better not affect my husband.
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May 14, 2004
SKITSTÖVEL
To the Swede who thought it was
real funny to make the "America's Dumbest Soldiers" webpage:
Vad fan gör du? Har du ett hjärta eller är du bara en jävla kuk? Du ä så jävla feg, att du har använt en mexikansk adress. Jag skiter i dig. Du är inte värd besväret.
Help me out, Anders. I don't even know enough swear words to do this guy justice.
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My motto is "The only good yankee soldier is a dead yankee soldier", but i still found "America's Dumbest..." to be a bit lame. "Citizen Smash" is much more amusing
Posted by: Martin at May 18, 2004 03:23 PM (s6aqc)
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I'd say "Du förtjänar att få huvet avsågat, din fega jävla hora".
But you said it better, Sarah.
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THOROUGH
This appears to be a
very thorough webpage, with lots of links for future reference, on the War in Iraq. I haven't looked through it closely yet, but I plan to this weekend.
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ELOQUENCE
My friend and I talked at length yesterday about eloquence. I found some examples this morning of things I wish I had said.
Via Hoystory:
Nope, don't blame the Islamofascists. Don't blame the terrorists. They're just innocent victims of American imperialism.
Just how out of whack does your brain have to be to ignore the guy holding the blood-stained knife in one hand and the severed head in the other?
via Feste:
On that dreadful day all Americans became the falling man and today we are Nick Berg.
John Kerry is on Imus at the moment and his opening remarks? He says we are crushed under the burden of healthcare and gas prices. No, Senator we are crushed under the WTC. Kerry continues to say he can shift the burden for the war in Iraq to others, remove the target from our backs, he is a fool.
Via the very angry Banagor:
O, Pardon! for I am "stigmatizing" with "hatred" a "great religion" and "culture"! Well then, show me this great religion and culture! Show me the fruits of this wonderful world which the Left defends so wholeheartedly!
I will show it to you: it is a tape, grainy but recognizable, in which the full glory of Islam is pronounced by the brutal sawing off of a man's head and proudly shown off to the world.
And the even angrier Emperor Misha:
We cannot make them stop hating us, for the very simple reason that hatred is all that they have to offer to this world.
Well, let them hate us then, but let us teach them also to fear us more than they fear anything else. Let us show them, forcefully, brutally and without mercy that there are no worse fates imaginable to man than to cross us, that their much vaunted "anger" is nothing but a slight expression of displeasure compared with what they have awoken in us.
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May 13, 2004
BACK
Tim's back up and running, and he has several wonderful posts today. Go read all of them.
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MONSTERS
I relate very strongly to
Michele's story:
Maybe their well will dry up some day. Maybe there will be less and less followers of Islam who view their religion as an excuse to murder and more of the kind who want peace and prosperity. Maybe they will kill themselves off in all their attempts to kill us. Maybe moderate Muslims will stand up and be heard and drive the terrorists out of their holes and into a hail of machine gun fire. Would I care about their deaths? Nope. Not at all. They aren't human. They are monsters. Die, monsters, die, as my son used to say in his sleep.
So my son, an eleven year old who already knows too much about the world, happened to see part of the video yesterday as he watched the news. He was devastated and horrified. He took Nick Berg's death very personally. We discussed the matter, discussed about terrorists, about good v. evil.
He asked can't we just drop a bomb and kill them all?
And I realized, as I explained to him the best I could why we cannot do such a thing, that what he said is absolutely an eleven year old way of dealing with things. We are not eleven. We are adults.
Ok, then how come I keep whispering die, monsters, die in my dreams?
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May 10, 2004
DEAD HORSE
If Abu Ghriab were a dead horse, I would be beating it, but I wanted to point out something reader Oda Mae brought to my attention. Omar from
Iraq the Model interviewed someone who used to work at Abu Ghraib.
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Oda Mae sure found a real bombshell (the non-fatal kind, fortunately). Chance of that being reprinted in the mainstream mud-ia: 0.000.
The doctor's comments about gay prisoners makes me curious. Is he just homophobic and assuming that they're gay because they're evil? Do Iraqi gays turn to violence to prove they are "men"?
The post above that one talking about the new Iraqi army is worth a look as well. Of course, it's just more "proof" of the "AmeriKKKan colonization" of Iraq.
Posted by: Amritas at May 10, 2004 12:52 PM (BeaMw)
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I saw it also. All the Iraqis seem to wonder what the big deal is.
Posted by: Mike at May 10, 2004 03:02 PM (kbqMz)
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I can't speak to the truth of it, but I have a couple of friends - as well as my husband - who have said the same thing. The speculation is that since women are not really part of some Arab societies, homosexuality is more prevalent, even though it is against Islam.
Gay rape is more often reported in Muslim countries as well. Remember the young gay man who was crucified in the West? Some articles reported he was raped by several men while travelling in Egypt.
Who knows if it's really true, but I lean towards believing people who've visited these countries. You also have to factor in that if these people are in fact thugs who might have been incarcerated before, they could turn to sex with other inmates in the same way we hear about rapes in our prisons in the States.
Posted by: Oda Mae at May 10, 2004 04:09 PM (1zirK)
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Oda Mae,
Thanks again for telling Sarah about the article. I mentioned prison-based homosexuality in my initial draft of the comment but it got deleted when I reedited it. Oops. That does bring up one complication, though: assuming gay behavior is real among these prisoners, how much of it is "any port in a storm" gayness and how much of it we'd-be-gay-anyway gayness? I have read the claim that much Arab homosexual behavior - not just in prison - is of the former rather than the latter type. The argument goes that since Arab men are segregated from women, they turn to each other. (Oddly, I have never seen any such claim for Arab lesbians. Either it's rare or no one cares enough to notice.)
"I lean towards believing people who've visited these countries."
I would lean more towards them myself, but I am always wary of foreigners' assessments of cultures based on brief visits or even long-term stays in isolated communities. It's quite possible to live in the expat community in, say, Japan for years without learning much of the local language and hence remaining ignorant about what things are really like.
Posted by: Amritas at May 11, 2004 03:45 AM (lPHcY)
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Did anyone else notice that Iraq the Model consistently called A(R)GH prison "Abu Gharib" rather than "Ghraib"? Are they alternate pronunciations of the Arabic spelling غريب gh-r-y-b? More speculations on my blog later ...
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May 08, 2004
BEASTLIE
I'm very much against putting money in the pockets of Hollywood entertainment types who badmouth our country or our President. However,
at the rate we're going, the only CDs I'll be able to own will be from Kid Rock and Toby Keith, and the only DVDs will be episodes of Frazier...
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