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Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins celebrates the insurgency’s victory:
The gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving, Beltway neocon calling abortion murder and torturing Arabs as “Islamofascists” has been laid to rest, and by a decision of the American people. Another McCarthy raised its head over the western horizon and has been slapped down. It is a good day for level-headed Americans ...
At this point the insurgency knows it has won, however long it takes the occupying power to go. Retreat in good order is the best hope. An era of ill-conceived, belligerent interventionism has come to an end - by democratic decision, thank goodness.
Syria’s Baathist press shares his delight.
Another McCarthy raised its head over the western horizon and has been slapped down. It is a good day for level-headed Americans ...
Well, yes, it would be. What with all that head-slapping and all.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 10 at 07:14 AM • permalinkPerhaps Jenkins should go over to Iraq and celebrate with the insurgency, former Baathists and foreign jihadists, who might chop his balls off as part of the celebration.
‘Retreat in good order is the best hope’. The best hope for terrorists that is.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 11 10 at 07:15 AM • permalinkAs Jenkin’s says elsewhere: These regular fiestas of participatory democracy make the European visitor’s hair stand on end
Thank God - finally all that horrible democracy is over and we can get back to a bit of good ol’ fashioned fascism.
Nothing quite like getting back to traditional European values.
Gullible US voters are not to be taken as serious analysts of the world. But with a solid diet of MSM cow manure and US gullibility what would be expected of non-US MSM comments. Hitler and Tojo rose to power because of US gullibility. It is to be hoped the next generation of Hitlers and Tojo do not find the same environment as the 1930s.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 11 10 at 08:02 AM • permalinkThe insurgency has won? Really? The insurgents’ goals in Iraq is almost even more unclear than the coalition’s. To gain ground? Every company level attack the insurgents make gets hammered to pieces. They don’t hold any ground. To get rid of the Americans? Then what? The Iraqi army is much larger than the American’s and three years of indiscriminant civilian targeting is not going to make the IA give up without one hell of a fight. To control the government? This is not like Vietnam, there is no opposition government, no opposition capital, no alternative policies.
The only goal for the enemy in Iraq is to cause as much death and destruction as they can and sadly at that they are winning.Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2006 11 10 at 08:10 AM • permalinkAttention all you heathen and foriegn devily type folk!
It is November 10th! That means it is the USMC Birthday!
Marines in their natural environment
Here’s some of the faces of the
Fallen MarinesLook into those eyes and find weakness, I dare anyone to try.
Tell these men and women’s families we’re just pulling up stakes and running off like pathetic cowards.
Arms of the angleTry selling it to the families of these men and women that since everyone went and got all tired, we’ve decided to just quit. You know, it’s just convienient to stand up anymore.
Where is the LoveAmericans should wake up and smell the smoke. If these men and women that have stood up to fight for us are pulled back before finishing this fight then a rage and vengeance may well be unleashed that has not been witnessed on our soil since the last time we fought ourselves.
Semper Fidelis, Grimmy.
I like what Demi Moore says in “A Few Good Men”
“Why do you like them [the Marines] so much?”
“Because they stand on a wall, and say no-one’s going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch”Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2006 11 10 at 08:18 AM • permalinkAn era of ill-conceived, belligerent interventionism has come to an end - by democratic decision, thank goodness.
Boo to interventionism! Yay to letting dictators slaughter the people of their and other nations at will!
Feh. The orgy of triumphalism on the left is exposing them as the fascist lick-spittles they’ve been for decades; hell, for my entire life. Next person who claims to oppose the removal of Saddam and the war on terror “because of human rights” is going to get spit on.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 10 at 08:36 AM • permalinkNow now rob, spitting is the level of the people who oppose the removal of Saddam and the war on terror.
Hey, maybe now that the Democrats are in charge (sort of), the media will stop calling it “Bush’s war on terror”...Is that too much to ask for?
Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2006 11 10 at 08:41 AM • permalinkSome respect for the brothers and sisters in the bigger green machine.
and for those past and present. Hanging Out With The Boys
Hold on, let me get this straight. This idiot is celebrating that the insurgents with their well known record on human rights (the right to have your head sawn off) and noble aims have won the day? It is strange how easily someone who enjoys the comforts and liberties of a modern democracy will thrown in their lot with such causes. Sure you can hate Bush and co, fine but for the love of all that is sacred dont go and support such a putrid bunch just because you think they are on your side. You are well and truly mistaken on that count.
Now now rob, spitting is the level of the people who oppose the removal of Saddam and the war on terror.
It’s what they deserve. If they had their way, then right this moment they’d be lecturing us all about how Bush failed in not removing Saddam before he announced his nuclear program. They’d be wailing and lamenting the extermination of the Iraqi Kurds, while shrieking over the idea of the US getting involved. They’d be horrified at the loss of life in Afghanistan, and demanding to know why we sent so many troops to a land-locked country when the “insurgents” simply had to take up residency in protected areas of Pakistan.
They didn’t have different thoughts on how to deal with threats; they simply oppose whatever decisions are made because they despise the US.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 10 at 08:56 AM • permalinkHe’s just letting his country’s future rulers know that he welcomes his jihadist overlords.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 10 at 09:02 AM • permalinkWhat a foul little boil on the arse of a mangy jihadi fucked goat is this turd.
Hooray an attempt (the only one for how long?) to bring democracy and the rule of law is failing!
What a foul little circle he must inhabit to not get slapped down just for saying shit like that.
And as much as I hate to say it if the lack of political will means the deaths of all parties, wether iraqi police recruits, Americans, Poms etc was for nothing then forget Vietnam.
There will be an incredible surge of anger from a lot of ex-combatants, America might see a number of attacks at home by some rightfully aggrieved vets.
The war is won, the peace will take 10 years to be enshrined.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 10 at 09:05 AM • permalinkWhere the attitude gets born and it aint a gentle birthing.
Not exactly work safe audio. Caution, Contains USMC Drill Instructors and a recruit needing some TLC.
In an effort to be at least sorta on topic, these are the men that will be brought home, angry, enraged, betrayed if they are made to quit the field before the fight is done. Pulling them out early is the same as crapping on every one of those that bled, sweated, suffered or died just to have it all come crashing down because some worthless, feckless, cowards and enemy sympathisers cant get it through their heads that sometimes you just gotta STFU and Soldier.
At this point the insurgency knows it has won
Uggh, well he’s probably right on that score—any chance we can spin this thing as Americans deciding they want a far more successful and prodigious approach to killing jihadis? Anyone?
I know it’s a long shot but this is an issue of survival here….
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 11 10 at 10:20 AM • permalinkNew Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is going to have cute crippled kids hug the terrorists. They’ll be so busy vomiting from the overload of cute they won’t have time to attack us.
Hey, it could just work!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 10 at 10:34 AM • permalinkI guess Native Americans are now lumped in with the white man.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 10 at 11:01 AM • permalink“The gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving, Beltway neocon calling abortion murder and torturing Arabs as “Islamofascists” has been laid to rest…”
Does this also apply to the government in Britain? They’ve been with us in Iraq since 1990.
“At this point the insurgency knows it has won, however long it takes the occupying power to go. Retreat in good order is the best hope.”
Since that’s what we’ve always intended, what’s the point of the insurgency?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 10 at 11:24 AM • permalinkDon’t tell me, Grimmy, you’re ex-USAF, right?
;^)Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 10 at 11:30 AM • permalinkThe “insurgents” began to win the PR war day the MSM decided to call them that vaguely romantic name instead of what they are: Restorationists; not plucky little freedom fighters but hardline remnants of a broken-backed dictatorship seeking to restore their boot on the neck of their countrymen.
Grrrrrr.Grimmy: Many thanks for the great links. Incidentally, Mrs. Paco and I were deeply touched recently to get letters of thanks from several young men in Paco, Jr.‘s platoon at Parris Island. Seems that Paco, Jr. has been sharing out all the power bars we’ve been sending him with his comrades. They sound like a great bunch of guys. Next week, they’re taking up combat swimming and, I believe, they’ll be shooting their rifles for the first time. Paco, Jr. is eager to qualify as an expert marksman. His grandfather, Old Paco, is an excellent shot, although he one time accidentally shot himself in the leg (he was tucking a Llama .45 cal. into his waistband and the thing went off, the bullet going through his thigh and coming out his calf). He’s fond of saying that , “I’ve been in several gun fights over twenty years of law enforcement, but I’m the only one who ever hit me.” Here’s hoping that Paco, Jr. is a tad more careful than that!
The welter of dirty tricks, midnight robocalls, push polls and face-to-face confrontation contrasts with Europe’s “new politics”, a feelgood quest for the centrist voter.
Every time I despair over the mudslinging and raucousness of American politics, some Eurotwit comes along to remind me of the alternative. Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy, which society is still going strong, and which one is dying bit by bit?
Booyah to Paco Jr! How proud you must be, Mr. and Mrs. P.
Damn. Gotta get me a tomahawk. And here I thought I had all the bases covered.
Oh, wait - does he mean the hatchet, or the guided missile?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 10 at 02:53 PM • permalinkAn era of ill-conceived, belligerent interventionism has come to an end - by democratic decision, thank goodness.
Tha-a-at’s right, how nice it will be when the Middle East slips back into the status quo ante, a crazy quilt of brutal military dictatorships, shaky monarchies, and freely-operating terrorist hatcheries, with no countervailing forces to offer even a chance of change. And so long, Israel, by the way. The really vile thing is that Jenkins can barely control the - pardon my French - almost masturbatory pleasure with which he reveals his morally cancerous ideology. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Simon Jenkins and his Islamophiliac Wankerama.
#32 Yojimbo, don’t worry; Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft are supporting the new SecDef, so everything’s sure to turn out okay in the end.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 10 at 04:47 PM • permalink#30 - When we drove down to see our middle lad at graduation at Paris Island, we didn’t recognise him.
He took a bus down there as a barely controllable pain in the ass, and came home a man.
Sniper School 1993:
Sargent: Who taught you to shoot like that, Marine?
Our jarhead: My Dad, Sargent.
Sargent: Your Dad a Marine?
Our jarhead: Navy, Sargent.
Sargent: There **** Ain’t %%%%% Been A Squid Born Who &&&&& Could ##### Shoot Like A Marine!!!Good luck with yours.
One day all the Euroweenies will be very upset when a crisis comes and they call for America to come bail them out again, and we don’t come.
#36 Paco,
Israel’s destructin won’t bother Jenkins or most of the other Euroweenies, they will relish it.Good luck to Paco Jr.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 11 11 at 09:41 PM • permalinkI look forward to Simon Jenkins’ column once the “insurgency” makes its way to Britain.
PW—Just keep in mind he’ll be writing it for the NYT from his refugee ‘shelter’ on the Upper East Side…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 13 at 09:44 PM • permalink
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A figure of 150,000 deaths at the hands of the insurgents has just emerged from a source in Iraq. That must be fantastic news to the supporters of - what was that - the liberators?