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From a review of Jack Coughlin’s Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper, this description of events following Baghdad’s liberation:
The only sour note of the day came from the so-called “human shields,” leftists who had gone to Iraq supposedly to protect the people from the U.S. military and leave them safe in the arms of Saddam Hussein’s secret police. They stormed out of their shelters and began cursing the Marines as “baby killers.”
A group of “surly” Iraqi men approached Coughlin and offered to beat the liberal protesters to death for their insults.
The use of “offered” calls to mind an image of exquisite politeness: “Excuse me, sir, but I couldn’t help but overhear those unruly people accusing you and your fellows of infanticide. Would it be entirely out of order if we were to redress matters by, say, beating them to death? Please, no need to answer directly; we merely ask that you consider our offer. Do continue.”
Heck, I would have radioed back to my engineering attachment and told them to roll up with “Rachel”...
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 04 at 01:39 PM • permalinkShielding the People’s Carpet under the People’s Table in the People’s Basement…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 04 at 01:54 PM • permalinkAnd this gentlemen is why Iraq is worth it.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 07 04 at 02:33 PM • permalinkOdd that they were nowhere to be seen during the elections.
They were trying to get out the graveyard vote like good little Democrats but that bastard Saddam wouldn’t tell them where all the graves were and they got lost in the desert…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 04 at 06:42 PM • permalinkShe also made clear that her life’s ambition from an ealry age is to be a member of parliament. Leaving aside the scariness of that thought, now that she is filled her resume with the appropriate credentials and has been refereed (or blessed) by dear old Aunty, all she needs to do now is officially join the Greens and seek a senate spot in Tasmania.
You have all been warned.
They tried to say that she was a real true blue conservative christian too - credibility started to fade a bit though when (a) she got into meditation with Buddhists (meditation and inter-faith cuddlies are not really cheered on by conservative christians), and (b) got a job with the ALP, who are not really up-front & positive about religion now that the Catholic vote is less important (also something to do with Leninism I think!).
The lasting impression is one of a confused and attention seeking person. Her search for a proper notion of self-worth may lead her back onto the tracks at some point, but at the moment I would have to agree with her mum - that she should just stay home.
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Obviously these men were CIA plants inserted into Iraq years ago who were ordered to wait just for a moment like this.
Karl Rove is probably the one behind it. Real Iraqis would _never_ act like that! What with them all hating Americans and such.