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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 03:56 pm
Antony Loewenstein reports from Cindy Central:
Last night in Sydney was windy, rainy and cold, but an anti-war event featuring Cindy Sheehan and Dr Salam Ismael made one forget the wintry conditions outside.
Most people usually forget conditions outside once they’re, you know, inside. Ant requires a calming visit from Peace Mommy.
Around 500 people gathered to hear two impassionate speakers discuss the monumentally disastrous Iraq invasion and occupation and offer a way forward.
Impassionate?
The Iraq war has never been more unpopular and delusions have never been greater. Working towards, and advocating, “Coalition” defeat has been achieved.
And what a grand achievement! I wonder if Sheehan knows that Antony advocated the killing of her son.
The next step is finding a prosperous Iraqi future without Western interference.
Which wouldn’t be possible were it not for the Western interference that removed Saddam.
Dr Salam Ismael was equally impressive.
Equal to who, or what?
He reminded the audience that Westerners are not being told the real picture of life under US occupation, the daily torture, bombings and kidnappings.
Yep. We’re only getting the good news. Nothing but progress reported every day.
Both Sheehan and Ismael demanded the complete withdrawal of “Coalition” troops from Iraq. They were both asked whether the security situation would worsen and Ismael responded: “how could it be any worse than now? Iraqis should sort out our own country.”
One way it might be worse: Iraq could still be a dictatorship funding suicide bombers in Israel, among other crimes. More Cindy Capers to follow.
- *I’ve* spoken to crowds of 500. Do they really think this is some kind of sign of popularity?Posted by Aaron – Freewill on 2006 05 24 at 07:46 PM • permalink
- “The Iraq war has never been more unpopular and delusions have never been greater.”
Well, he accidentally got one correct there.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 05 24 at 07:46 PM • permalink
Impassionate?
A variation of “impotent”, by context, applied to the moral character of Ant, Cindy, and Ismael.
I wonder if Sheehan knows that Antony advocated the killing of her son.
I’ll bet she would give ol’ Ant a warm hug for saying that!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 24 at 07:47 PM • permalink
- …western interference…That’s right, no more antibiotics, computers, airplanes, psychiatry, etc. Well maybe he’s right about psychiatry. But forward to the 12th century brothers. You have nothing to lose except helath and prosperity.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 05 24 at 07:47 PM • permalink
- Just how big was this event? How much did it cost and how many foreigners had to be flown in to make it happen? Activist tourism could become promising source of income for the Australian economy if we’re willing to go that extra mile.
For example, Howard could legalise bear baiting, sink the new Rainbow Warrior and declare that Israel is always right about everything. Cindy, the other messiahs of the loony left and of all their hangers-on would be flocking to our country on a regular basis. Don’t worry, you’ll learn to ignore them quickly enough, I already would if their whacky antics wern’t so amusing.
- Luckily helath is not some non-English vulgarity. Meant to type in health.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 05 24 at 07:51 PM • permalink
- Are there any prominent lefty idiot Australians with a pilot’s liscense? Cause LOST is just now coming on and, unfortunately, Sheehan and Sarandon will have to come home eventually, so I was just thinking…
Of course I wouldn’t want anyone innocent to end up on that island, so maybe Cindy and Susan could get said idiot, lefty Australian to fly them home…
A guy can dream.
- Is it just me or are the lefties getting progressively more incoherent daily? Is this some kind of geometric progression whose ultimate end is the Democratic candidate giggling and soiling itself on the podium at the Convention?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 24 at 08:09 PM • permalink
Iraq could still be a dictatorship funding suicide bombers in Israel, among other crimes.
Which would be a feature, not a bug, in the anti-Americans’ “minds.”
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 05 24 at 08:51 PM • permalink
The Iraq war has never been more unpopular and delusions have never been greater. Working towards, and advocating, “Coalition” defeat has been achieved.
Sorry pal, but a long list to include de Villepin, Chirac, Schröder, Fischer, Annan, Blix, el Baradei, Putin and others made “ADVOCATING DEFEAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED” a dream come true, long before idiots Sheehan and Loewenstein came into the picture.
Payoffs to the above named, while Iraqis and Kuwaitis were murdered, raped, tortured, oh and Iranians as well, had this war preplanned, blood money safely hidden, and denying complicity…all done long before you got there.
- BTW- a crowd of 500? Most pubs in Sydney would have had more than that in last night just to watch 26 boofheads thumping each other, accompanied by the brainless braying of “Rabbits” Warren, Bullfrog et al.
Obviously the Moonbat Madonna’s a big attraction- maybe they should have her as a warm-up act for Nickelback.
- Is this some kind of geometric progression whose ultimate end is the Democratic candidate giggling and soiling itself on the podium at the Convention?
Why do I suddenly get the feeling that with Cahtah and Moore in the honor’s box last time, that may already have happened? Okay, not to the candidate…
- The Iraq war has never been more unpopular and delusions have never been greater
Wow! So a crowd of 500 ANTIWAR protestors find the war unpopular. Someone get this faxed of straight away, it is clearly ground breaking news. I would have been more shocked if they were in favour of the war! Unless this is the delusion he speaks of?
Posted by JSthecorrect on 2006 05 24 at 08:59 PM • permalink
- > Iraqis should sort out our own country.
“Should”, yes, but they’ve proven themselves incapable of doing so. One hopes that they can keep things going after the US has sorted it out for them but folks in the “cradle of civilization” seem stuck in the terrible twos.
Posted by Andy Freeman on 2006 05 24 at 09:18 PM • permalink
- It kills me the way Loewenstein, the grammatically-challenged, intellectually-deficient pseudo-journalist edits his blog after Tim Blair draws attention to his shitful writing on this blog.
Thanks to Tim—Loewenstein has now worked out that “impassionate” is a non-existent word and he’s changed it to “impassioned”.
Oh and hi Loewenstein. Why are you trolling Tim’s blog? Are you looking for a few Jews to throw in the ovens, to save your own hypocritical arse?
Or are you just trying to work out how to write comprehensively?
- While you’re here, Antony, just leave an address where I can find you, will ya? Huh?Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 24 at 10:32 PM • permalink
Around 500 people gathered to hear two impassionate speakers discuss the monumentally disastrous Iraq invasion and occupation and offer a way forward.
A way forward? Well now you’re talking. A way to fight the jihadi terrorists which are churning out of the cesspool created by the Arabs and Iranians in the Middle East.
Or are they even trying to come up with any half ass plan to fight it?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 24 at 10:55 PM • permalink
- Mamdooh Habib – has found a way forward
82mins in the city to surf while on
a disability support pension
11325 82:25 MAMDOUH HABIBIn the top 20% of all entrants in the race – they must have kept his fitness levels up at Gitmo
Posted by knuckleheadwatch on 2006 05 24 at 11:12 PM • permalink
What I’d do to be behind Cindy Sheehan in an airport
I’d do anything to get out of there – Heck, I don’t even find it very comfortable to know she’s in the same country!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 05 25 at 12:15 AM • permalink
- The left is right – the Coalition should leave Iraq. The kindness of George W. Bush has resulted in many unnecessary deaths of US soldiers and a massive waste of taxpayers monies. When George asked me before the invasion for my valued opinion, I told him straight ”Dubya, ol’ pal, here’s what you gotta do. Use a “Beat and Retreat” strategy. Go in there, topple the regime, and after a couple of months of mopping up operations, do a complete withdrawal. With the following message to the peoples of Iraq. ‘Sort yourselves out. If in a years time we don’t like what we see, we’ll come back and beat up on you again. And we’ll keep doing this until you get it right’”
If only he had listened to me! Oh,well… maybe with Iran?
- She’s not planning on coming to Canberra, is she?. Gawd, the student ratbags are gonna go apeshit.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 25 at 12:45 AM • permalink
- According to the online dictionary, ‘impassionate’ is one of those odd words, like ‘cleave’, that can mean opposite concepts, depending on context. ‘Impassionate’ can either mean ‘devoid of emotion’ or ‘generating strong emotion’.
Far more troubling is Ant’s “Working towards, and advocating, “Coalition” defeat has been achieved.” It sounds like he’s scampering coyly back and forth across the line between ‘dissent’ and ‘treason’. Hopefully he’ll do it once too often in the near future and be called to account by someone in authority.
Posted by blandwagon on 2006 05 25 at 12:47 AM • permalink
- Tell the truth now, wronwright. Ant is a Rove plant, isn’t he? He’s really a highly trained RWDB agent sent in to discredit the anti-war left, wright, er, right? His prose is parody and his tongue is firmly in his cheek.
You are responsible for this, aren’t you. All this talk of mead was just a stall so we wouldn’t know that you were fine-tuning this finely crafted report on Sheenan’s visit. All those extra wronwrights running around provided a perfect cover for you. All you had to do was show up occasionally and write some innane post—hell, one post was completely plagerized from Monty Python!—and no one would realize what you had done.
“Well done.” said Mr. Peabody, puffing on his pipe. His lids half closed behind his glasses as he smiled, “My best to Karl.”
- I think it’s funny, kae, and will be telling it to my nine-year old when I pick her up from school.Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 25 at 02:08 AM • permalink
- I’m guessing you’re using the term “report” in the lead sentence in its loosest possible sense. I’m also presuming that “freelance” in the Loewenstein lexicon means something akin to “shitty stylist who can’t get regular employment”. To paraphrase Dash from the Incredibles: when everyone’s a freelance, nobody is.
- Wait a minute! When did Dash say that?Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 25 at 03:17 AM • permalink
- Saltydog,
Ant is not a Karl plant. He’s a dope. We have lots of dopes. Often we sponsor them, finance them, encourage them to continue doing the stupid stuff they do which, in turn, helps our cause. Like Cindy. Soros hates spending money on her but like the rest of us, he has to do Karl’s bidding.
And I assume you’re referring to my Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfernschplenden schlitter crasscrenbon fried digger dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurstlich himbleeisen bahnwagen gutenabend bitte ein nürnburger bratwurstle gerspurten mit tzwei macheluber hundsfut gumberaber shoenendanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm quote. Please note that I gave credit to my Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfernschplenden schlitter crasscrenbon fried digger dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurstlich himbleeisen bahnwagen gutenabend bitte ein nürnburger bratwurstle gerspurten mit tzwei macheluber hundsfut gumberaber shoenendanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm quote to Monty Python. So I did not plagiarize that Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfernschplenden schlitter crasscrenbon fried digger dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurstlich himbleeisen bahnwagen gutenabend bitte ein nürnburger bratwurstle gerspurten mit tzwei macheluber hundsfut gumberaber shoenendanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm quote.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 25 at 03:19 AM • permalink
- I can’t be the only one who thinks the “grieving” mother is enjoying her time in the spotlight just a tad too much, can I?
I just get the feeling that if she knew she’d get this much attention, she’d have punched a bullet through the poor bastard herself years ago…
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 05 25 at 03:23 AM • permalink
- Anybody in NSW go boom yet?
An interesting alert we recieved from the Department of minerals and energy on a large quantity of explosives and detonators. An Oxy was used to cut into the magazine. The report is dated the 18th of May 2006 but Im having big problems finding a link. The report is numbered SB06-04 perhaps someone a bit more competant could track it down?
This is where its meant to be: http://www.minerals.nsw.gov.au/safety/alertsCould it be a bit of a cover up?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 25 at 04:10 AM • permalink
- I may be a bit paranoid and the NSW gubbinment is too slack to update their website as well.
My bad…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 25 at 04:12 AM • permalink
- Now is he plagiarizing Syndrome or merely paraphrasing Syndrome? Or has that distinction been quigginated out of existence?Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 25 at 04:40 AM • permalink
- SDD, he said words what belong to someone else. Attribution means nothing, I’m told. Someone else said those words or something similar, so now Hanyu can never use them again in that combination or any other combination that is similar enough to the original combination that someone might say ‘hey, didn’t someone else say that once’ even if Hanyu actually included the name of the person who did say something similar once along with a line to the effect ‘this guy once said this or something similar’.
There. Do you get it now?
And Texas Bob…how can you be late? I thought you were defeated? Perhaps you should redeploy. Might I suggest taking your show to Ant’s neighbourhood? There seems to be a critical lack of torture, bombing and/or kidnapping going on there.
- Cindy goes to Sydney on her crusade against the evil war – 500 turn up to see her while 72,000+ go to the footy. She flies to Melbourne, I’m sure another 500 or so will turn up while 95,000 are at the footy.
At the same time, Australian soldiers fly into Dili to be met by cheering locals to do a job Cindy says is illegal and should never happen.
All in all – well done Australia!Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2006 05 25 at 05:18 AM • permalink
- Many months after the fall of Baghdad, a number of senior Iraqi officials in coalition custody continued to believe it possible that Iraq still possessed a WMD capability hidden away somewhere although they insisted that they had no direct knowledge of WMD programs. Saddam’s secretive compartmentalised tyranny lent plausibility to the existence of secret compartmentalized WMD programs; and unsurprisingly many Western governments believed such programs existed. Indeed, Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector freely admits in his 2004 memoir that on the eve of the war he believed along with Egyptian, French and German intelligence, that Iraq did have banned weapons and prohibited programs: “gut feelings, which I kept to myself.”
Was anything said about Saddam untrue? It is beyond dispute that Saddam was a genocidal fascist psychopath whose crimes against his own people were legion – including a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs . In addition, he committed major acts of environmental vandalism against the habitat of the Marsh Arabs and the Kuwaiti oilfields. Iraq’s President Talibani recently reminded us that Ba’athist Iraq was the longest lived fascist regime in history. Hitchens rightly described Saddam’s Iraq as a ‘charnel house above ground and mass grave below’. All of this was widely known before March 2003 yet, disingenuously, Saddam’s crimes were sidelined (ed.- for the left)when the debate on the war broke out.
Jim Nolan
(Remember Jim Nolan? SEE – Left Reminded)
I’d love to discuss this but I arrived to work a little late and so I am way behind on my duties of daily torture, bombings and kidnappings. Be back later…
Come on Texas Bob…keep up there, will ya? I mean our nation has an image and that can’t be damaged, so let’s get those chains, whips, rifle butts and dogs ready…OR if you really want to torture those people, invite Senators Kerry, Kennedy, Durbin and Boxer over for say a 6 month ‘chat’. Oh Murtha from the house, he’s a must. Betcha’, your local captured terrorist suicide rate would jump.
TB, you just may become the military iowahawk.
- Wow, what a day I am having. After catching up on my daily torture quota, I took a short lunch break and kidnapped a bus load of small children on my way back. What luck! So after locking up the kiddos in the Eddie Slovack Memorial Dungeon I had just enough time to set demo charges on 4 mosques, 2 markets and a falafel cart. The day went south from there because I found myself out in the open during the carpet bombing of a nearby pre-school (I did manage to score a nice Tabriz though Woo Hoo!)
It’s been such memorable day so far, I’m going for broke. I placed three large baskets of bread and money several meters from a guard post (with .50 cal no less) and once the Iraqi Chapter of the Women for Peace, Freedom and Democracy gets finished with their blood drive for injured children it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
After that, it’ll be time to throw back a couple of near-beers and plan tomorrow’s skullduggery.
- Texas Bob
Couldnt you use some of that naplam the leftys talk about? You know the stuff that only burns flesh while leaving the clothes intact…Or if your nefarious enough you could scribble a cartoon or two…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 25 at 08:23 AM • permalink
- I can’t be the only one who thinks the “grieving” mother is enjoying her time in the spotlight just a tad too much, can I?
Um, no. You can’t. Compare the number of pictures of her “grieving” with the number of pictures of her grinning like a feces-flinging chimpanzee. No contest.
BTW, keep up the good work, Texas Bob.
I can’t be the only one who thinks the “grieving” mother is enjoying her time in the spotlight just a tad too much, can I?
You’re not, Harry. I recall some photos of The Ditch Witch™ and Jesse Jackson at some rally. She was mugging for the photos, and having a good time. She practically dry humped Jesse in one of the photos. Jesse looked like he had stepped in something nasty, barefooted.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 25 at 09:03 AM • permalink
- Texas Bob, that’s horrible!! UnAmerican! Even……immoral!!!!
Drinking near beer? BLEAH!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 25 at 09:04 AM • permalink
- What the hell are the Ditch Twit&Ismael; Co. doing in Australia!!!? As the war is so unpopular outside of Iraq, it must be doubly so inside Iraq, especially with all those Texas Bob type outrages. Soooo, it seems Iraq itself is fertile territory for the two twits to bring their “peace movement” tour, with Lowenstein as their rapporteur. I bet they would get more than 500 to assure them that Iraq loves them so much that they would not be permitted ever to exit.
- 80 Paco
“Impassionate” is a clinical term referring to the artificial insemination of livestock. Use it all the time down here at Livestock Love, the cattle-breeding subsidiary of Paco Enterprises
That’s where they take the cows to be … er, orked, iznit? I know a guy who used to be a cow-orker there.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 25 at 10:57 AM • permalink
- Ever notice that when it comes to fraternal relations with cows (paco) or goats (SDD), those two seem to be our leading experts? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you.Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 25 at 12:21 PM • permalink
- Texas Bob,
I’ll make sure and provide some entertainment that would make Vlad the Impaler toss his cookies. Might even get a squadron of B-1s to drop a load of sea-green shag…
Sea-green shag? That’s a definite Crime Against Humanity right there.
=^0
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 05 25 at 02:03 PM • permalink
- 85 Ens Snidely
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you.
Speaking with ahem some degree of hands-on expertise … let me rephrase that … as a long-time goat husbandry specialist, let me just say this: sex with goats is (a) over-rated, (b) unsanitary, and (c) just plain NOT SAFE. Or so I um uh I have read … on the internet, yes, the internet. Nice people shouldn’t, and I certainly don’t. No indeed. Not since … not ever! No, indeed.
. .
. Llamas, now, that’s different. And better! They’re surprisingly affectionate, tall enough for a manly man in cowboy boots, and covered with all that soft fluffy fragrant wwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooollllllll! Speaking theoretically, that is, harrumph, I think it would be … that is, ah, say, is that the time? I have to run, ‘bye!Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 25 at 02:45 PM • permalink
- 64 Hella
he said words what belong to someone else. Attribution means nothing, I’m told. Someone else said those words or something similar, so now Hanyu can never use them again in that combination or any other combination that is similar enough to the original combination that someone might say ‘hey, didn’t someone else say that once’ even if Hanyu actually included the name of the person who did say something similar once along with a line to the effect ‘this guy once said this or something similar’.
There. Do you get it now?Wait wait, type slower! If Hanyu said what Syndrome said and attributed it to Dash, that’s one thing, but if Hanyu paraphrased what Syndrome said and attributed it to Dash, that would, in this post-attributory era, constitute a Quiggination of Syndrome’s remark, right?
And if it does, can I quote you on that?Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 26 at 02:23 PM • permalink
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Oh, okay. Ummm, anything else while we’re up? Another beer? Chips? Pillow? Foot massage?