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SOUL LIFTED HEAVENWARD
The ABC’s Matt Brown salutes Zarqawi:
For those opposed to the American-led project in Iraq and their own authoritarian and dictatorial regimes, a new martyr has been created. He graduated from the Jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan to Iraq where he became the bane of the most powerful military in the world.
Now he’s been brought down, but in the eyes of the disaffected, his soul will be lifted to heaven.
Hmm. Zarqawi, according to Brown, is a martyr not only to the America-haters, but also to those who oppose “authoritarian and dictatorial regimes” in the Middle East. No wonder the “disaffected” adored him so. How come the ABC never finds anyone like retired Iraqi teacher Isa Younis to interview?
I thank God and the Iraqi government for this huge gift. I don’t know how I’m going to celebrate but I know that this is the happiest day of my life.
The insensitive views of Mr Younis will revolt posters at this News Ltd forum, where an indignity outbreak is underway. Writes Damian:
When did we stoop the barbaric low of celebrating the death of someone by publicly displaying a nicely framed portrait shot of the bloated and bruised deceased? This lack of decency and basic lack of respect for human life moves the line between “us the civilized on lookers” and the murderous maniac a whole lot closer.
It’s just so unnecessary, complains Stabby:
What disturbs me the most is the framed photographs the American’s are proudly displaying - that is really not neccassary at all!
Marty agrees:
Yes sure they got him, but why display the pictures ? I thought it was totally unnecessary
Bevan forecasts an eventual blowback once Muslim patience is exhausted:
The only hate and violence in Islam is that in the minds of non muslims. Muslims are being killed like they were flies and we show little mercy or compassion for them. So the question is who is evil. Mind you the more we keep killing them, sooner or later they will retailiate.
Thanks for the warning. Finally, commenter “eufunny” posts the most deliriously peace-warped vision of Zarqawi that it is possible to conceive:
I wonder who he was before Bush occupied his country and has made him a “terrorist”. Maybe, a school teacher ...?
UPDATE. The Boston Herald’s Jules Crittenden:
A murderous bastard is dead. Who better than the Iraqis to celebrate this.
"CONGRATULATIONS TO IRAQ. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE WORLD ON THIS VICTORY,” wrote Iraqi blogger Omar at www.iraqthemodel.blogspot.com on news of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Do you see those words, supporters of the “resistance”? They’re written by an Iraqi. An actual Iraqi in Iraq. The “resistance” wishes to kill him. Choose your side.
The sooner we can somehow transport the bulk of the staff at the AGE to wonderous CUBA, North Korea or Iran- the better! How it must hurt them to live in such a forsaken undemocractic racist nation like Australia???
Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 06 09 at 04:09 AM • permalinkBut Zarqawi can’t be dead - he was a mythical creation of the Bush Administration and you can’t kill a myth, right?
Linkage to everyone’s favourite American Studies PhD students, Lataan.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 06 09 at 04:17 AM • permalinkFree clue for Damien, Marty and Stabby:
The reason they show the photos of the deceased (dead, defunct etc) is to prove that he really is dead. Otherwise, we would have people like you bleating about the lack of evidence.
Can’t have it both ways, sunshine.
A picture speaks a thousand words, so now we know he’s dead. What else do we need?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 09 at 04:24 AM • permalinkI followed the link to Damien’s blog. I need a bex and a good lie down after that.
And, Jim, at times like this I wish we were making it all up.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 09 at 04:28 AM • permalinkPeople were offended because it was “unnecessary” to show Zarqawi’s picture?
Unnecessary in the same sense that it’s “unnecessary” to blow up children in school yards?
Unnecessary in the same sense that it’s “unnecessary” to blow up people in buses?
Unnecessary in the same sense that it’s “unnecessary” to blow up people in mosques?
Unnecessary in the same sense that it’s “unnecessary” to blow up people at the market?
Unnecessary in the same sense that it’s “unnecessary” to blow up religious pilgrims?Just wondering.
Posted by perfectsense on 2006 06 09 at 04:32 AM • permalinkWell, it’s clearly no-win for the Americans.
Action: US forces show image of body to prove deceased man is in fact Zarqawi.
Reaction: News Ltd forum idiots think it’s barbaric to parade dead person’s photo around.
Action: US forces simply say Zarqawi’s dead
Re-action: News Ltd forum idiots think it’s a ‘conspiracy’, that he’s not really dead, that he’s being flown around on CIA torture planes, ......
The ability for these people to make it all up as they go along astounds me. Will anything EVER be good enough?
eufunny thinks Zark might have been a schoolteacher? FFS!! Even the BBC was describing him as a street thug who graduated/descended/slithered into terrorism.
Tosser.That ABC link gives me ‘Page Not Found.’
They must be draining the honey off the prose.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 06 09 at 04:42 AM • permalinkFar more important news in the war on terror.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2006 06 09 at 05:13 AM • permalinkIf they hadn’t shown the photos of the body all the conspiracy theorists would be saying that they didn’t really believe that he was dead, that it was just a lie to boost Bush’s ratings, <insert usual left-wing BS here>, etc. I tell you, you just can’t win with these people.
In other news, not all the news.com.au readers were displeased with Zarqawi’s demise. I left a comment there earlier in the day (before I read this blog) saying how happy I was with the news.
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 06 09 at 05:33 AM • permalinkThat FUCKING WORTHLESS ABC!
I am bloody angry. Just made the mistake of watching the brain-dead wide eyed overpaid worthless lump of raw sewage Juanita Scumbag-neilsen on the ABC news.“American forces have ASSASSINATED insurgent leader Zarqawi...”
No, I am not making this up!
Blatant screaming bias in favour of a totally evil murderer. It might be YOUR ABC, but it sure as hell ain’t mine. I want my 8c per day back.
MarkL
Canberra, and going outside to split some wood and burn off the fury.""I wonder who he was before Bush occupied his country and has made him a “terrorist”. Maybe, a school teacher ...? “”
Pol Pot
Stalin
MaoNice company he will be keeping in the perverted teachers wing of the abbyss
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 06 09 at 05:54 AM • permalink#1The more I read your blog, the more convinced I become that there’s no such place as Australia and you’re making all this shit up. If Tim were to report on the reaction of the NYT, Sen. Barbara Boxer, numerous members of the US House (one of which, a California Rep involved in the disppearance of a young girl, claims Bush killed Z. to get a raise in his polls) Murtha, Kerry, PBS (which claims that Z. was a self educated son of a poor Jordanain farmer) Kos, Berg and on and onnnnn, one could claim there was no such place as the USA and Tim was making it all up.
The NYT is running cleft-sentence ``it will take more than’’ editorials this week, eg.
As Americans discovered earlier, it will take far more than the elimination of iconic leaders to stem the tide of the Iraqi insurgency and reverse the country’s slide into civil war.
It will take more than gestures for Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s government to have a real chance of coming to grips with Iraq’s overwhelming problems and sectarian divisions.
This launches their ideas heavenward, where they can join Zarqawi.
I call it ``quagmirization,’’ hiding the original subject and verb so as to make disagreement more difficult, chiefly from themselves
I wonder who he was before Bush occupied his country and has made him a “terrorist”. Maybe, a school teacher ...?
According to an impeccable source (i.e. Michael Leunig’s forthcoming hagiography of the late al-Porqawi), this greatly misunderstood Jordanian social reformer and philanthropist started his services for the humanity as a designer of fluffy, whimsical, corduroy ducks.
Well, they could have used nicer frames.
Posted by Nova Scotia Mike on 2006 06 09 at 07:25 AM • permalinkMarkL - I heard it too, and you have to wonder.
But, having this morning heard Stephen Critter-den on ABC RN interview the Attorney-General (Ruddock) and ask him in all seriousness (albeit bordering on affronted outrage) whether the failure of the Government to stand up for David Hicks was a surrender of our sovereignty, nothing the ABC does will surprise me again.
Crittenden and his partner Hannie Rayson would be exactly the types who are quite ready to devalue our sovereignty by allowing anybody to arrive here, without any recourse to policing action.
It used to be “our ABC” and invaluable. But that was a long time ago. It is now an ongoing lesson in agitprop that we all pay for, in more ways than one.By killing this son of a poor Jordanian farmer, Bu$h is greasing the chain on the cycle of violence.
/moonbat
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 06 09 at 07:35 AM • permalink#24. The Us Representative who accused Bush of killing Z. simply to raise the Bush poll numbers is Pete Stark of the 13th Southern California District. This is the man who a few years ago admitted to having an affair with a young girl intern and was a suspect in her disappearance. She was later found un-alive. Stark belongs to the dead girl caucus in Congress headed by that moralist T. Kennedy. I’m not making this shit up.
Moptop,
That wasn’t Zarqawi trying to roll off. The Iraqi’s tried flipping him over so the Americans could plant the flag.
Posted by mythusmage on 2006 06 09 at 08:12 AM • permalink#3 Max, someone else said it a lot better, long before Billy Bob. Ward Bond, in that magnificent movie The Searchers, has to arrest his good friend John Wayne for killing a scumbag who tried to ambush him. As a law officer, Bond has to carry out the arrest, but his only comment on the victim is, “He probably needed killing “
"When did we stoop the barbaric low of celebrating the death of someone by publicly displaying a nicely framed portrait shot of the bloated and bruised deceased?”
Let’s see, hmmmm.....
Mussolini hung upside down and spat upon by his own people?
Goebbels’ charred remains (plus those of his family!) on display outside an overrun Nazi HQ?
This ain’t new, folks. Where were these moonbats to complain when the “insurgents” were beheading people and hanging bodies from bridges? And where were there loud plaintive wails when pictures of wounded GIs were being splashed across front pages, nicely framed?
Twits. Absolute twits.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 06 09 at 08:37 AM • permalinkWhen did we stoop the barbaric low of celebrating the death of someone by publicly displaying a nicely framed portrait shot of the bloated and bruised deceased?
Anybody else in favour of putting his head on a spike as a warning to future terrorists? It’s still a lot better than what he did to innocent Westerners and Arabs.
England did that with Oliver Cromwell’s head and nobody killed an English king after that.
It’s just so unnecessary, complains Stabby:
What disturbs me the most is the framed photographs the American’s are proudly displaying - that is really not neccassary at all!
Oddly, the squeamish Stabby and his ilk seem to reserve judgment on al-Zarqawi’s Halal human-butchery home videos. In a following post Stabby goes on to ask with feigned bewilderment: “I don’t get it. Why is it better to have George Bush the king of Iraq rather than Saddam Hussein?”
Don’t let Stabby near the kitchen knives, the guy is a total ‘tard.
The thing I’m finding particularly interesting at this point is how the usual suspects in CNN and BBC are showing the ‘dead Zarqawi’ photo.
A couple of hours ago, the front page of the BBC News website had the full image. It’s now no longer there.
Photos have now been relegated to the story pages only, but there’s a critical difference.
They’re ’photos of an American holding up the Zarqawi photo‘, and in my view serve to emphasise the ‘barbarian’ nature all these fringe element morons are sprouting.
For instance:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5060468.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/feedback.zarqawi/The only place I’ve been able to get the original image is from the trusty FOX News site.
MSM back to their usual tricks quite obviously.
#29, Blogstrop
I’ll see your Stephen Crtittenden and raise you one Jules Crittenden:
“Sometimes, you just have to stop and smell the roses. We’re in the middle of a very long war. Savor the moment: In this case, it’s that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you learn that a cold-hearted, murderous thug has been blown to hell.”
When the first bomb fell on Zarqawi the Baby Jesus smiled. Upon seeing the second explosion he punched a fist skyward and shouted “Fuck Yeah”
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 06 09 at 09:27 AM • permalinkHere’s the link to the Zarqawi found alive story.
You guys just dont’ understand that Zarqawi’s beheading videos were ‘authentic’, therefore anything goes. It’s like it’s ok for a polar bear to kill a baby seal, but not a guy trying to feed his family. I can’t believe I have to explain this stuff.
Stats — The good moral Democrat you were thinking of was Gary Condit. Even after he admitted stalling the investigation of the disappearance of Chandra Levy to cover up his own infidelity, he lacked the decency to resign. Unlike the voters of Massachusetts, however, the voters of his Souther California district had the spine to run him out of office on a rail.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 09 at 09:38 AM • permalinkThe barbarian in me is very, very satisfied that Zark lived long enough to know he was done for. The MSM and the quagmirists can spin and dodge all they like: Zarkie’s still dead and he ain’t coming back. And, yes, while there’s more where he came from, they’re all going to be uncomfortably aware from now on that even The Great Headchopper wasn’t bullet proof after all.
“He shot at the strong and he slashed at the weak,
From the Salween scrub to the Chindwin teak:
He crucified noble, he sacrificed mean,
He filled old ladies with kerosene:
While over the water the papers cried,
“The patriot fights for his countryside!”(Kipling, The Ballad of Bo Da Thone)
Posted by harry hutton on 2006 06 09 at 10:39 AM • permalinkTerrorism is essentially a repressed desire for aesthetic expression*. If people like Zarquawi had an outlet for their creative energies, such as weaving, this sort of thing simply wouldn’t happen.
*Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery, University of Aberdeen. “Terrorism and the Creative Urge”.
Posted by harry hutton on 2006 06 09 at 10:40 AM • permalinkwhy display the pictures ? I thought it was totally unnecessary
Well, I prefer to celebrate to the video too (best this one http://hotair.com/archives/vent/2006/06/09/zarqawis-end/) but celebrating with the picture of the dead, dead, dead Zarky is good to.
Soul Lifted to Heaven —
Apparently on afterlifeburner…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 09 at 11:14 AM • permalinkI thank God and the Iraqi government for this huge gift. I don’t know how I’m going to celebrate but I know that this is the happiest day of my life.
You can thank Allah that Americans had nothing at all to do with it. Yesiree, nothing at all....
Posted by Bashir Gemayel on 2006 06 09 at 11:22 AM • permalinkCheck out this post from Iraq the Model
My theory: Zarqawi was nabbed a couple of days ago. US intel tortured him (drugs) and got all they could out of him, then set up the death scenario. Reinforcing this: After the bombing, 17 spots in Baghdad were raided. Sure, this sounds a little bit crazy. --Charlie
I wonder what color the sky is in the reality based communtiy?
Pete Stark, who has an MBA from UC Berzerkeley--check--and has represented the East Bay since forever, is a product of the same mindset that gave us Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi among others. He’s most famous for his “shooting-from-the-hip” style rhetoric. He declined to support the resolution authorizing military force against Iraq because The bottom line is I don’t trust this president and his advisors.
He’s just one more reason why they call us the Golden State.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 09 at 01:24 PM • permalinkI wonder what color the sky is in the reality based communtiy?
I think it’s the color old snow by the side of the road takes on once 10,000 vehicles have splashed dirt, grime and road kill and a hundred homeless drunks have peed on it. That’s just a guess of course.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 09 at 01:37 PM • permalinkScrew all those PC weirdos. I just can’t fathom them driving a car and interacting in the normal course of life.
I feel REALLY GREAT about this: the last thing the bastard saw was the face of an American Special Ops. Bite me, Zarki!
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 06 09 at 03:39 PM • permalinkIf Tim were to report on the reaction of the NYT, Sen. Barbara Boxer, numerous members of the US House (one of which, a California Rep involved in the disppearance of a young girl, claims Bush killed Z. to get a raise in his polls) Murtha, Kerry, PBS (which claims that Z. was a self educated son of a poor Jordanain farmer) Kos, Berg and on and onnnnn, one could claim there was no such place as the USA and Tim was making it all up.
Totally!
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 06 09 at 03:45 PM • permalink#26
I reply to the NYT in their own spirit.“It will take more than a mere confrontation with the facts to persuade Pinch to grow a brain cell.”
It appears the Timescritters have forgotten that damn great hole in the ground where the Twin Towers used to be. Out of sight, out of mind. The Iraq Campaign is an integral part of the War on the Islamist Terrorists, even if Pinch and his consiglieri don’t have the wits to comprehend that fact.
#51
Sorry Harry, the world has become impossible to satirize. Somebody is writing something that is even crazier than the quote you give us. In fact as far as grad-A, Jumbo moonbattery goes, it weems rather tame.That being the case, I suppose it might be a real quote, although the name seems too wacky even for a Pommy toff. As I say, in today’s world it is impossible to tell. Johnathan Swift, were he to return to Earth. would abandon his metier in despair, and probably go to work for Hallmark.
#65
Kyda, because Stark’s skull is as dense as gold?Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 06 09 at 05:42 PM • permalink#29
I also heard the offending interview.
Reality check for Stephen Crittenden:David Hicks is a convert to radical Islam and fought for the Taliban who imposed Sharia law. Hicks therefore believes that the death penalty should be applied to homosexual acts. The acceptable means of execution include burning,throwing from tall buildings and stoning.#70 lonie, watch how to throw around the term “critters.” #69, I’d be happier if you specificied which Crittenden you’re refering to.
Posted by crittenden on 2006 06 09 at 09:03 PM • permalinkexcuse me, I meant, “watch how you” ... any other Belgian beer fans out there?
Posted by crittenden on 2006 06 09 at 09:04 PM • permalinkGod I wish I hadn’t read this post...I’m feeling ill now!
I hope the sensitive souls of the News Ltd forum saw the Hitchens interview on Lateline last night. He truly put these indulgent, totally deluded, comfortable, Western supporters of this barbarian and his so-called “insurgency” firmly in their place!
Does this mean we’re winning the War on Terrorism?
[rolls eyes]
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 10 at 02:49 AM • permalinkI have been reading posts on this site for a few weeks but this is my first actual posting.
I suppose i should be used to the sickening crap that passes for opinion on the left, but since reading some of stuff the left has spewed forth about the death of zarqawi,i know realise that there is no depths of evil and sheer depravity these,safe well fed lefty loons wont sink to, the comments by Nick Bergs father in particular is some of the vilest crap i have ever read,truly SICK beyond belief.Well, I have watched my last ABC news, I reckon. Rape’em with razortape. I have not been so furious in a long time.
Just splitting wood did not work - I was still spitting chips. So I went out to Koren forest with a mate and chainsawed a ton of wood, loaded up the trailer, brought it back, offloaded it, split it, stacked it, then made and drank 2 litres of hot mulled wine with said mate.
My wife says I have calmed down now....
Honestly, does anyone actually know what it is with the ABC? Why do they do crap like that, why the built in biases?
MarkL
CanberraThe only way I can think of why Muslims would consider this man a martyr is because all the Arabs with any sense realized long ago that killing fellow Muslims doesn’t make you a martyr and became agnostics or left the country.
If this guy is in the garden of Allah, I’d start looking for another god to worship.
Today the Sunday program were describing the claims that Zarqawi was still alive when American troops arrived and was allegedly pulled out of an ambulance and beaten to death by them as, alarming claims!
The ABC meanwhile, on a program called Asia-Pacific Focus, in a segment on what prominent voices in the region were saying, quoted Michael Berg in Delaware!
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The more I read your blog, the more convinced I become that there’s no such place as Australia and you’re making all this shit up.