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ANTI-WAR/USA BASHERS: WHERE ARE YOU NOW, MFERS?!?!
- Thread starter FRuiTY PeBBLe
- Start date
Ramy Khoury, editor of the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon writes that "a realistic reading of the policy must conclude that the sacking of Baghdad is designed to send signals to all other Middle Eastern and Asian regimes that the U.S. finds annoying, threatening, distasteful, worrisome, or even just a little strange.
Khoury explicated what he said are "the new rules of the game now being explained to the world through the televised display of Mesopotamian show-and-tell."
"If Washington merely suspects that terrorists may one day emerge from your land, or that you might in future threaten your neighbors, you have only two options: You change course and shape up, or you are finished as a governing regime. If you behave as Baghdad behaved, defying the new rules of the game, you suffer the same fate as Baghdad is suffering."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64349-2003Apr9?language=printer
Khoury explicated what he said are "the new rules of the game now being explained to the world through the televised display of Mesopotamian show-and-tell."
"If Washington merely suspects that terrorists may one day emerge from your land, or that you might in future threaten your neighbors, you have only two options: You change course and shape up, or you are finished as a governing regime. If you behave as Baghdad behaved, defying the new rules of the game, you suffer the same fate as Baghdad is suffering."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64349-2003Apr9?language=printer
In Our Name
This is a truly historic moment, LGF readers. To the naked protesters, the Hollywood whiners, the Indymedia haters, the BBC and CNN and MSNBC and Al Jazeera and Arab News:
This moment is IN OUR NAME.
Those who sought to keep the Iraqi people in their living hell, who stood in the way of their liberation, and insisted that the US and Britain and Australia and our many other partners had no right to take action to defend both the Iraqis and ourselves: This was NOT IN YOUR NAME.
And we wonât forget where you stood, in your ignorance and fashion-driven hatred of America. We wonât forget.
by Charles at 10:15 AM PST
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6198_In_Our_Name
This is a truly historic moment, LGF readers. To the naked protesters, the Hollywood whiners, the Indymedia haters, the BBC and CNN and MSNBC and Al Jazeera and Arab News:
This moment is IN OUR NAME.
Those who sought to keep the Iraqi people in their living hell, who stood in the way of their liberation, and insisted that the US and Britain and Australia and our many other partners had no right to take action to defend both the Iraqis and ourselves: This was NOT IN YOUR NAME.
And we wonât forget where you stood, in your ignorance and fashion-driven hatred of America. We wonât forget.
by Charles at 10:15 AM PST
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6198_In_Our_Name
I wonder how those Hollywood POS's Sarandon, Sheen, Baghdad Sean, Moore, et al, feel right about now?Quote from KymarFye:
In Our Name
This is a truly historic moment, LGF readers. To the naked protesters, the Hollywood whiners, the Indymedia haters, the BBC and CNN and MSNBC and Al Jazeera and Arab News:
This moment is IN OUR NAME.
Those who sought to keep the Iraqi people in their living hell, who stood in the way of their liberation, and insisted that the US and Britain and Australia and our many other partners had no right to take action to defend both the Iraqis and ourselves: This was NOT IN YOUR NAME.
And we wonât forget where you stood, in your ignorance and fashion-driven hatred of America. We wonât forget.
by Charles at 10:15 AM PST
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6198_In_Our_Name
Quote from KymarFye:
A great day
Shame on the marchers. Shame on their claims to have been acting in the interests of the Iraqis. Shame on any thoughts they might have of sharing their opinions with us any longer. And shame on their inevitable refusal to concede that they were wrong.
can a marcher hate the Iraqi people? that the operation is successful implies that opposing it is wrong?
must admit they have done a very good spin job - they have succeeded in large part in blending the distinct issues of 'liberation' of oppressed people and American-funded preemptive war without evidentiary justification and in defiance of world opinion. meanwhile, all the 'wmd', aluminum tube, chemical weapon stuff is down the memory hole... well done
Quote from max401:
One of my favorite camera shots is of the two liberated Iraqis marching around the the park with a huge poster that reads:
"HUMAN SHIELDS--GO HOME"
Donald Sensing captured a photo of it:
<img src="http://donaldsensing.com/Pix/liberation/Gohomeshields.jpg" width="360" height="240">
Sensing also has a nice round-up of pictures - here's the list... go to the page for the links...
http://www.donaldsensing.com/2003_04_01_archive.html#200121228
Images and video links
This morning I captured some images off cable news as well as two clips of video. Here is an index, starting with the earliest:
Caption contest: "How would Arab media caption this picture?"
Banner held by two Baghdad men: "Go home, human shields, you U.S. wankers"
Captured video of crowds celebrating in northern Iraq (MPG format). The screen is split left and right, the northern Iraq shot is on the left.
My favorite: "The funeral shroud of tyranny," showing a US Marine draping the American flag over the head of the Saddam statue before they pulled the statue.
The Saddam statue is pulled down.
See TV-captured video of the statue's fall here.
Update: Michael Totten has a fine photo collection of the morning's events, also, as well as shots from earlier days.
Glenn Frazier also has a great collection of photos, as well as lots of links to news articles.
http://www.donaldsensing.com/2003_04_01_archive.html#200121228
Images and video links
This morning I captured some images off cable news as well as two clips of video. Here is an index, starting with the earliest:
Caption contest: "How would Arab media caption this picture?"
Banner held by two Baghdad men: "Go home, human shields, you U.S. wankers"
Captured video of crowds celebrating in northern Iraq (MPG format). The screen is split left and right, the northern Iraq shot is on the left.
My favorite: "The funeral shroud of tyranny," showing a US Marine draping the American flag over the head of the Saddam statue before they pulled the statue.
The Saddam statue is pulled down.
See TV-captured video of the statue's fall here.
Update: Michael Totten has a fine photo collection of the morning's events, also, as well as shots from earlier days.
Glenn Frazier also has a great collection of photos, as well as lots of links to news articles.
The US has again blown up a fly with a shotgun. Iraq spent 14 billion per year in defense, the US is spending 400 billion... The end or outcome still doesn't make the war legitimate.
In any case, I remain supportive of the troops and am relieved to know that not more innocent lives have been lost. As to the long-term impact of this war on the so-called peace and stability, I'll keep triumphalism at bay and my fingers crossed.
In any case, I remain supportive of the troops and am relieved to know that not more innocent lives have been lost. As to the long-term impact of this war on the so-called peace and stability, I'll keep triumphalism at bay and my fingers crossed.