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ZARQAWI UNCREATED
Extracts from Robert Fisk’s famously stupid commentary on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, broadcast in April:
The issue really is, I think, is this a person who is seriously an enemy of the “West” or is this just another person who is popping up on our screens to say this is the latest mad lunatic, the latest fanatic, the latest terrorist whom we have to be concerned about? That is the real issue, you see.
Later, of course, Robert decided that we should be concerned:
I think these people are bad guys. OK, they are. There’s no doubt about it. They are bad guys.
Robert continued refining his “issue” theme:
You know, the issue is, are we in fact creating these creatures for ourselves to hate or are they creating themselves?
Later:
They want to create themselves and we help them create themselves. We help them do that. We help them do that.
In fact, coalition forces have helped do exactly the opposite.
(Initial Zark death post here)
Great news.
NOT killing this maniac the first time in 2003, when the US had the chance, may prove to be a PR coup. Bush’s anemic poll numbers may regain a blood supply, not to mention provide a welcome distraction from attention on Haditha.
So now that Al Qaeda in Iraq has become a headless chicken, it will be interesting to see whether this makes any difference to the violence in Iraq.
Just as interesting will be to see what the coalition PR machine does without an insurgent/terrorist poster boy.
This all sounds like a good description of how we would think about Fisk himself if we had been smoking too much:
10pm: “The issue really is, I think, is this Fisk a person who is seriously an enemy of the “West” or is this just another person who is popping up on our screens to say this is the latest mad lunatic, the latest fanatic whom we have to be concerned about? That is the real issue, you see.”
11:30pm: “I think Fisk and the Fiskies are bad guys. OK, they are. There’s no doubt about it. They are bad guys.”
1am: “You know, the issue is, are we in fact creating these creatures for ourselves to hate or are they creating themselves?”
2:30am: “They want to create themselves and we help them create themselves. We help them do that. We help them do that.”
3am: Vomiting.
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2006 06 08 at 08:39 AM • permalinkDate: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:00:02 +0530
From: “b.raman” <corde@vsnl.com>
Subject: Zarqawi’s Reported DeathThe latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India,
on the above subject
is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group
(SAAG), New Delhi, at http://www.saag.org/papers19/paper1839.htmlOh and people might want to check out the BBC’s “HAve Your Say” section for a good the first two comments on the page at the moment are:
I believe that this operation to kill the above was entirely illegal.
On numerous occasions Jackie Straw made it quite clear that the current British Government objected to known terrorists being hunted down, without going through the due process of law.
william pringle, newcastle
and:
Ok he was a thorn in the side of Iraq, but the real problem is Bush and Blair.
John, StainesMy “Prayer for the Dead” ~ repeat after me:
Oh Lord, grant that they don’t bury him within the Koran’s proscribed time line. F*ck-eth him. Leave-eth the body in the street for thy dogs and amongst thou smallest crawly biting insects of Your creation. And, if there art 72 virgins waiting somewhere, may their nether regions hold razor blades.
Amen.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 06 08 at 08:52 AM • permalinkDamn, no more reports from the Zarqman? Iowahawk will have to find a replacement - perhaps Katie Couric?
I guess he really was “surrounded by idiots”. Blowed-up idiots, as it turns out. Score one for Team Satan!!
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 06 08 at 08:55 AM • permalinkThat Zarqawi dead is outstanding news. I piss on his grave.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 08 at 09:06 AM • permalink...YESSSSS, there is a God and it aint Allah…
Posted by starboardside on 2006 06 08 at 09:10 AM • permalinkAs long as we didn’t humiliate him.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 06 08 at 09:12 AM • permalinkGreat news! And unlike #2, above, I mean it is truly great news, in and of itself, without qualification as to PR value, past, present and future, whether or not it leads to a reduction in violence, and however it affects or doesn’t affect George Bush’s poll numbers. Zarqawi was a bad man -before the war and during the war, and undoubtedly he would have been a bad man had he survived the war. The world is well rid of him, and I, for one, don’t give the merest damn how it plays out politically, PR-wise, or any other way. It is just retribution.
Whenever I try to imagine what Addamo might look like, I get this mental picture of Ralph Wiggum.
“We’re gonna be in a pie!”Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 08 at 09:26 AM • permalinkCountdown to “what about Osama”... 5… 4… 3…
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 06 08 at 09:50 AM • permalinkThis is good news, because now the lefties who’ve been taunting us about not having killed Zarqawi can switch over to claiming that killing Zarqawi was an irrelevant sideshow. They’ll enjoy the change of pace.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 06 08 at 10:08 AM • permalinkZarqawi is dead, and never got on a T-shirt!
Do not rejoice, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the bastard, he bitch that bore him is in heat again. — Berthold Brecht.One thing at a time, baby. — USA
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 10:11 AM • permalink#2 Addamo
NOT killing this maniac the first time in 2003, when the US had the chance, may prove to be a PR coup. Bush’s anemic poll numbers may regain a blood supply, not to mention provide a welcome distraction from attention on Haditha.
Those are excellent points. And it will also take away attention away from the Marty report revealing the TRUTH about about the US’s secret airborn gulag over Europe. Indeed I, I ... I question the timing!
The McHitlerBurton bastards! were hiding Zarqawi in the same spider hole where they stasged Saddam until Chimpy needed a poll boost!
</Kos>
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 10:33 AM • permalinkWe will now join in a hymn for the deceased:
Hymn…hymn…fuck…hymn…ahhhhhmen.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 10:39 AM • permalinkAddamsFamily @ #2
Just as interesting will be to see what the coalition PR machine does without an insurgent/terrorist poster boyWhat does it matter? The world will ignore it and “not bat an eyelid” - just like you stated in an earlier thread, the Canadians are ignoring and not batting an eylid over the terror-arrest story in Toronto - today for instance The Globe and Mail is STILL ignoring the story on behalf of its readers with half of page 1,with follow-ups on pages 7, 9, 11, 12 and 13.
ROFL!
You are still a fuckwit, a liar and an apologist for terrorists.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 08 at 10:47 AM • permalinkFrom Monty Python’s “Dead Jihadi” Sketch
Owner:
No no! Zarqawi (bees pee upon him), ‘E’s pining!Customer:
‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This jihadi is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in pieces! If we hadn’t nailed ‘im to his perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! He’s f*ckin’ snuffed it!
THIS IS AN EX-TERRORIST!!Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 06 08 at 11:04 AM • permalinka bit of a squeamish headline for this article in the Australian. Capture??
Posted by procrustes on 2006 06 08 at 11:27 AM • permalinkTOTAL bullshit alert!!!!
I just saw Nick Berg’s dad (the guy whose head farqawi cut off), who coincidentally looks like a total friggin fruitcake, on CNN just then saying today was a doubley sad day, because not only would farqawi have parents that would now be going through a grieving process like he did, but as he was a political figure, other members of his group could now go out and commit more acts of terror…
he saw no good coming from his death….
I mean what is it with some of these total f*ckwits??? and especially these parents of some of the slain over there…. i wonder if i could be locked in a room with this piece of sh*t and given some rubber hose, whether i could explain it to him????
Hey Addamo!
You were thrilled when the corpses of American servicemen were being publicized. This should make you delirious. This time, with joy. Judging from your posts, you already were delirious.
P.S. How’s the news from darkest Canada? The Canadians who are in Canada want to know. After that, you can tell us about the portal that connects the West bank to Iraq.
Or perhaps you could explain how the death of someone who revelled in the deliberate deaths of children and wedding guests in Jordan means nothing more than a bounce in poll numbers? Could it be that your only concern is in how it plays politically, rather than in the fate of the Iraqi people, or the right to hold a wedding in Amman Jordan without being blown to bits?
Think about what your post means to the people who have lost children because Zarqawi ordered their deaths. To them, it means that he at least will never orchestrate another atrocity. To others, it’s cause for jubilant comments. To myself, another disagreeable but necesary task has been completed. Perhaps we’re closer to ending the fighting that is taking place in populated areas that causes casualties by its nature. To you, it means primarily that Bush might gain some sort of advantage.
How sad and pathetically small minded of you.
President Bush on receiving the news about Zarqawi.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 08 at 12:42 PM • permalinkAddamo represents the aborted result of conjugal visits between Nick Berg’s father and Monster Mother Cindy. How else to explain (his/hers) its dyspeptic concentration on poll numbers and PR rather than the removal of a threat to life liberty and happiness of the Iraqi people and to the survival of western democracy.
Who ya gonna call? ZARKBUSTERS!
I’m just curious what symbol they’re going to authorize that F-16 jock to paint beneath his canopy?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 08:25 PM • permalinkYojimbo—Product placement buys you an extra week in Purgatory…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 09:08 PM • permalinkAbu Al-Zaquari (may his tribe increase)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
The pointy end of a bomb, KERBOOMPosted by Whale Spinor on 2006 06 09 at 12:57 AM • permalink
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And, as much as I hate speaking ill of the dead, fuck him.
Actually, that felt pretty good.
Scratch that bit about hating.
-Big Al