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Arrogance floats amongst the stars...
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Wed, 12 May 2004 14:08:33 GMT
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I'm almost at a loss for words.
At a time when the world's (including many Americans, btw) opinion was against
Bush and Co. for their mismanagement of the Iraqi situation, those stupid
<insert expletive here> go do what they did.
I don't swear much, but this beheading just makes me seething with anger. He
wasn't even a soldier for crying out loud.
If I was a passionate man, I'd say pull out our forces and drop a few really big
bombs down on their heads and 'turn the sand to glass' (like many people are
suggesting on the FreeRepublic)
And now the conspiracy theorists are out in full force, spinning this
atrocity--'Oh why was he there longer than he should have been? Isn't it
convenient that he was delyed by a few weeks so he could be captured!" Hey look
you guys with foil wraps on your head--if it wasn't him, it would have been
someone else.
See, it's the mentality--when you are born into and taught your entire lives
that the 'infidels' are 'less than you', you can commit these heinous acts of
barbarism and not even remotely consider that you're doing something wrong.
Do I have an solution? Do I have an answer? I know that the Americans have
mismanaged this fiasco from the beginning, and every shred of evidence points to
this mismanagement eminating from Dubya's administration. But what to do now?
Now it's a totally differnt ball-game. We see the 'enemy' for what he really
is--a spiteful, vengeful group of people who have *no* consideration for people
who aren't them. Iraq isn't the issue. Iraqi people probably just want to go
about their daily business and be left alone and let 'the powers that be' go do
something else. But these extreme religious zealots who can hack off a person's
head and hold it up for the world to see... that's an entirely different matter.
Anyway, too angry to make it more clear than that. I just have this quotation
attributed to a Japanese general (and it ain't perfect to be sure, but you'll
get the point)--"We did what we did for the good of our people, but I fear we
have awoken a great beast"
You religious nuts--you ain't seen nothing yet--when America gets its back up,
that's pretty much the ball game.
Dave K
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| (...) I wonder if all the other unnecessary civilian deaths in Iraq make ordinary Iraqis feel equally angry? I wonder if the light sentences purportedly being dished out to those involved in the physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape and murder within (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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