LOL. Now that's entertainment when Syria and Iran have dust-up.

OT:

Refuting Islam on YouTube

Yep, I'm stirring the anthill. Finally.

Posted by: Foehammer at March 7, 2007 2:07 PM

There is absolutely only ONE THING that Ahmadinejad's backing an international tribunal on the assassination of Rafik Hariri -- who was King Fahd of Saud'i Arabia's bagman and travelling on a Saudi passport when he died -- can possibly mean:

Iran is going to take Syria. I Louay Safi at a dinner once if he thought that Bashir al-Assad was going to be better than his father, and after an extended conversaion, it came out (but not from Safi): Hizbollah had put Bashir into his position, basically telling him that he "carried on daddy's work or he as dead". And Hizbollah has been running the country ever since.

If an international tribunal to investigate Hariri's death occurs, the Saudis stand to take a big hit in the investigation and the Syrians will be found to have carried it out. This stages the way for Mesha'al to take over the country.

No wonder Bashir al-Assad is miserable. He never even wanted this life, has been a puppet from day one, and now will be destroyed and probably killed for doing what he was ordered to do in the first place.

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 7, 2007 2:17 PM

Hmmmm so the Judeans have tapped the Syrian telephone system and have decided to exploit this in public.

Assad is under a great deal of pressure as the Iranians have supplanted him and basically made him their proxy whore for IDF retaliation over things the Iranians are doing.
Ahmadinejad's worst fear is what he continually drones on about in fissures being exploited in Islam as Islam is a chasm of many broken parts.

Ahmadinejad has learned being a diplomat one day in Saudi Arabia makes the barbarians notice when they are assassinating Lebanese leaders.
I would have loved this to have been a face to face encounter where Assad and Ahmadinejad both has a wrestle off.....they are both wirey little guys that should have made an entertaining girly man match.

I actually would have paid to see that.

Posted by: Lame Cherry at March 7, 2007 2:18 PM

Hugh....

It is all coming into place just like you said. They just can't get along with resorting to name calling.

Assad is getting nervous because his Alawite cult is not on the firm theological grounds. Both Sunni and Shia could turn on his group at any moment.

There could be a opportunity here to sow more disorder in the Islamic paradise if we had anyone in charge who knew how to play the game. If I was in charge I would call old Assad up and start playing the head games.

"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."

Sun Tzu, Art of War

Posted by: greatcometof1577 at March 7, 2007 2:18 PM

Trouble in Islamic paradise? Say it ain't so!

These rectal cavities couldn't get along if their lives depended upon it (and they do). More than anything, Islam's total lack of internal unity and constant sectarian slaughter will serve as the best warning of all to us Infidels.

Speaking of "Islamic Freedoms", one of the best oxymorons I've ever coined is:

Arab Unity

As for redundancies, I present for your delectation:

Palestinian Terrorism, Islamic Intolerance and, my favorite, French Dip.

Posted by: Zenster at March 7, 2007 2:20 PM

If I were the eye doctor from Damascus, I would get call my nearest FDT florist ASAP and send a couple dozen roses to the little man in Iran. Iran could easily get into the habit of using Syria for all sorts of test runs, various chemical weapons, suitcase nukes and whatever else they would like to practice on before they use these things on Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: maryrose at March 7, 2007 2:37 PM

Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at March 7, 2007 3:29 PM

"A source close to the presidential palace" (as rendered from a google translation of the original article appearing in Al-Siyassah, the Kuwaiti newspaper)

Lax security, or intentional leak?

(Interesting: the top banner ad on the http://www.alseyassah.com/alseyassah/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAl-Seyassah%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX">front page of the Al-Siyassah site is for the USAGC Green Card Lottery program, adverting 55,000 slots, and your 1 in 60 chances)

Posted by: deesine at March 7, 2007 3:32 PM

Darnnit, I thought I checked those links.

http://www.alseyassah.com/alseyassah/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAl-Seyassah%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX">Front page of Al-Siyassah, with the banner ad.

Posted by: deesine at March 7, 2007 3:34 PM

Well, it worked in the preview mode...sorry everyone.

Here's the untranslated page.

Posted by: deesine at March 7, 2007 3:37 PM

Looks like they're back to being friends in this picture, or maybe they're REALLY exchanging death threats to one another. Those sweet smiles don't fool me.

Posted by: champ at March 7, 2007 3:39 PM

Do ya suppose God knew what He was talking about when in Genesis 16 He mentioned what Ishmael's (the father of the Arabs) character would be like??:

"12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

Gee, have we seen that at all?

Posted by: angryeagle at March 7, 2007 3:46 PM

Pass the popcorn and let the fun begin!!!!

Posted by: JenBee at March 7, 2007 4:01 PM

angryeagle --

Gee -- is "wild donkey" a nice way of saying, wild ass? LOL

Scripture certainly does nail it.

Posted by: champ at March 7, 2007 4:04 PM

s_sgt7

Sun Tzu is a very good reference and proves that weapons may change but good sound strategy never changes. Too much "psy-war" and "shock and awe" and not enough Sun Tzu, Liddell Hart, and in general just studying the campaigns of past greats. Why the hell is so hard for anyone in our military leadership OR political leadership to pick up a Quran and read it and then make identifications of weaknesses in the land of Islam and going after those.

This current surge in Iraq is another good example of pure stupidity. The new General David Petraeus battle plan is to use the old british strategy in Malaya. See

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1291624.ece

The laugher of this article was when it explains his strategy in mosul when he ran that:

"He introduced “cordon and knock”: Houses were surrounded, but not entered, and suspected insurgents were invited to turn themselves in. He allowed imams to inspect his jails and never blindfolded detainees."

Then

"Since 2005, General Petraeus, 54, has been teaching US commanders in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas."

He says...

"Essential viewing is Paul Greengrass’s 2002 film Bloody Sunday about the 1972 massacre in Londonderry, when British troops fired on civil rights marchers, killing 14. Two of the main messages General Petraeus draws from Britain’s Northern Ireland experience is how low-ranking soldiers, unaware of local cultural mores, can effect adversely the course of a war; and how intelligence on the ground is crucial."

Good god!

Posted by: greatcometof1577 at March 7, 2007 4:09 PM

"If I was in charge I would call old Assad up and start playing the head games."

ring ring

Hello, Bashar here...

Hey, Georgie here, how ya doin budddy...

Hey, Georgie long time, wazzzup..

Just thought I would pass some new top secret intel reported by our inside sources in Iran...seem old man Ahmadinejad is calling you a son of a camel or something like that, said he was gonna sic Hezabollah on your pompous fat ***, called your wife, I don't know which one , a greasy slug who doesn't bath and fakes orgasms. I really don't know what he is talking about..oh yeah, he said something like he was going to test his newly acquired Russian missiles with the secret Chemical warheads on your city....of course, I don't believe him,,but then again, he does lie....one more thing, he said he was gonna increase your jizah tax or something like that...tell me you ain't paying him any protection money are yah...Hey Listen , Barbara is calling, dinner is on the table, give me a call when you can..

Gee thanks, Georgie, I'll look into it bye

bye..

Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 7, 2007 4:13 PM

I just had a horrible thought. What if Sunni and Shiites spiral downwards into fratricidal bloodthirsty warfare and jeopardize the tourist base necessary to make a success of the Persian Gulf branch of the Louvre???

Posted by: poetcomic1 at March 7, 2007 4:20 PM

“On tonight’s card we have two unknown commodities for the first cage fight of this glorious season of 2007!”

“From the East we have two great fighters, but they are new fighters. Can they stay the pace we don’t know? But tonight will show us there metal in cage combat. Maybe if the gods are with the monkey fighter from Iran he may be able to progress forward through the competition to meet the undisputed champion and Texan king of ring and master of the bush mighty George. But equally the man of strong words and daggers from Syria might get a knife in the back of the monkey man and save Texan George from defending his title.”

“I agree Jim it’s a close fight this one and you never can tell with the monkey style, so much jumping around makes him hard to catch, but I hear the monkey man is training up a nuclear attack. If he’s got that in his repertoire then who knows what the result will be”

Posted by: Mert at March 7, 2007 4:26 PM

exsgtbrown

Hahahahaha...

Thats the spirit! Keep em busy chasing their own delusions. Play all the sides against each other. You may have to throw down some cash and weapons but it will be worth the show.

Posted by: greatcometof1577 at March 7, 2007 4:28 PM

"However, the conversation reportedly turned ugly when Ahmadinejad voiced support for the establishment of an international tribunal on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri - a sensitive subject for Syria, which has been suspected of involvement in the Lebanese leader's death."

Wait and see.

Surely there's less here than meets the eye. Hezbollah runs Lebanon and Hezbollah is Iran's baby. How could Hariri have been killed without their acquiescence? Would a live and functioning Rafik Hariri have ever been welcomed by the Iraninans? Couldn't Assad have told the Iranian leader something to the effect that: "if I go down, I'm taking you with me"? How could the Iranians ever emerge from such an investigation with clean hands? I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: PMK at March 7, 2007 4:32 PM

Assad to the monkey man: After supporting your violence and aggression for so long, how dare you interfere with my violence and aggression!

Don't worry. They'll kiss and make up before long. Probably deny it ever happened. Claim the story was made up by Zionist agents.

Posted by: JeffS at March 7, 2007 4:34 PM

"This current surge in Iraq is another good example of pure stupidity. The new General David Petraeus battle plan is to use the old british strategy in Malaya. See

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1291624.ece

The laugher of this article was when it explains his strategy in mosul when he ran that:

"He introduced “cordon and knock”: Houses were surrounded, but not entered, and suspected insurgents were invited to turn themselves in. He allowed imams to inspect his jails and never blindfolded detainees."

Then

"Since 2005, General Petraeus, 54, has been teaching US commanders in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas."

He says...

'Essential viewing is Paul Greengrass’s 2002 film Bloody Sunday about the 1972 massacre in Londonderry, when British troops fired on civil rights marchers, killing 14. Two of the main messages General Petraeus draws from Britain’s Northern Ireland experience is how low-ranking soldiers, unaware of local cultural mores, can effect adversely the course of a war; and how intelligence on the ground is crucial.'"
-- from a posting above about General Petraeus and his "fighting-insurgencies" strategists

Here are two previous postings about the mistake Petraeus and his advisers make, as they uapply irrelevant general ideas about "insurgencies" that have no relevance, for they ignore the most basic element: that element is Islam. And both sides, or rather all of the ethnic and sectarian groups, each with further divisinons yet again, are Muslim. And as such, they do not wish us well. In Northern Ireland the Protestants wanted the British to remain. And many of the Catholics, while they did not agree, were not all fans of the IRA -- nor was the government of Ireland. In Greece and Malaya, the Communist insurgencies could be defeated by a combination of military means -- neither the Greek Communists, nor the Malayan insurgents, had the kind of support that Arabs have when they fight Kurds (from other Arabs), or vice-versa, or that Shi'a have when they go after Sunnis, or vice-versa (unshakeable save for a handful). Furthermore, both conflicts were based on economiic distress. But while economics has something to do with the fight over power, the refusal of the Sunnis to be dominated by Shia, or of Kurds to be dominated by Arabs any longer, is not a matter of economics. The failure to understand that people in Fallujah are not quite the same as those in Philadelphia, or those in Ramadi the same as those in Raleigh, North Carolina, is apparently something that has escaped Petraeus and the others who think, in their own Wall-Street-Journal marxist (everything begins and ends with measurements along that poverty-prosperity axis), that Infidels really can win Infidel hearts and minds. It shows an indifference to, or ignorance of, Islam that at this point is criminal.

Here is one previous posting about this (look toward the end):

"In the future the Iraqis will blame their civil war on the US..."
-- from a posting above

Well, of course they will. They already do. Men on the street interviews, in which those men on the street explain "how everyone" got along until the bad old Americans came. In a poof, the persecution and mass-murder of the Kurds is forgotten by all the Arabs. In a poof, the persecution and mass-murder of the Shi'a by the Sunnis (the regime of Saddam Hussein being merely a disguised Sunni despotism) forgotten, certainly by almost all the Sunnis, but also by some Shi'a when they want to blame, as they do want to blame, the Infidels for everything. Everything was wonderful. In Pakistan Sipaha-e-Sahaba never attacked the Shi'a. In Afghanistan the Taliban never tried to wipe out every last Shi'a Hazara. In Lebanon, the Shi'a have never suffered or ever wanted to get back at the Sunnis. In Bahrain the Shi'a who constitute 75% of the populaton are ruled benignly by a Sunni Arab about whom they have nothing to complain. And as for the past 1300 years of Sunni-Shi'a relations, let's just say it's been roses, roses, roses all the way.

Of course the Americans are to blame, in Muslim eyes. Always will be.

But here's the amusing part. The Bush Administration cannot admit to itself that the Sunni-Shi'a divide pre-existed the invasion of Iraq by some 1300 years, and that the fissures between them would inevitably widen once the iron grip of Saddam Hussein had been removed. Because to admit that this was all inevitable, would be to raise the question: if it was all inevitable why did we not see it? For it if was inevitable, and we hadn't -- and still refuse to have -- the slightest idea of its inevitability, then there must be something wrong with us. But we can't admit that. Nor can all the commentators, for and against the war, who failed to immediately identify this inevitable outcome, and who either remained Bush loyalists, or opposed the war for all the wrong, appeasing reasons, or had some half-way measure (such as that "put in a strongman" without, of course, asking themselves would that "strongman" be Sunni -- in which case the Shi'a would never accept him -- or Shi'a, in which case the Sunnis would never accept him).

No, those who were wrong, being unable to admit it, will persist in their obstinacy. And that obstinacy requires them to deny the depth and duration of the Sunni-Shi'a split, and thus to support the view that the "Americans caused it."

A fantastic war, this Iraq war. Undertaken for one stated reason, continued long after for quite another, crazily messianic and polypragmonic reason. Supported by those who simply mechanically rallied around the Bush-Republican-conservative wagons, without considering what was actually going on. And even today, still unable to see the folly of the Bush and now Gates definition of "victory" which is the very opposite of what should be desired.

When Gates says failure to obtain "victory" -- by which he means ending the Sunni-Shi'a violence, and forcing the Kurds to permanently acquiesce in remaining within Arab-ruled Iraq, he has it all backwards. He speaks of "catastrophe." But the real "catastrophe" would be if the Americans, after having squandered 3,000 lives, and 22,000 wounded, and a half-trillion dollars in sunk or committed future expenses, and done great damage to both the materiel and the morale of the armed services, not cheap to repair in one case, not easily recovered in the other, were to continue to squander men, money, and materiel in order to achieve the opposite of what would constitute a kind of victory, through dividing and demoralizing and thereby weakening the Camp of Islam --well, this would be the greatest self-inflicted defeat in American history, one entirely avoidable if the right understanding of the instruments, and full scope, of the menace of Jihad is understood.

But it is not understood. Not by Bush. Not by Cheney. Not by Rice. Not by Gates. Not by the idiotic Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. Not by The New Duranty Times. Not by The Bandar Beacon. Not by the bright-eyed "insurgency experts" who keep making plans to win hearts and minds in Iraq, and speak confidently, and irrelevantly, aout how insurgencies "last on average ten years" without considering that this "insurgency" is Islam-based, and as long as Islam is there, the Infidels will always be fought, and as long as Islam is there, the ethnic and sectarian divisions within Islam will never be overcome, because the spirit of compromise, especially peaceful compromise, is contradicted by the tenets and attitudes of the belief-system of Islam.

How long will it take this learning-curve to begin to take off, as it still strains and strains and strains to slope upward?"

[Posted by: Hugh at December 19, 2006 02:27 PM]

Posted by: Hugh at March 7, 2007 4:35 PM

Ahmad whispers, "Come closer so I can suck your blood."

Posted by: champ at March 7, 2007 4:38 PM

Thats a great picture...the embrace before the kiss.
Assad know's it's the kiss of death, that's why he is nervous.
Anyone who kisses Beasty Boy Dinnerjacket is marked for death.
Of course Assad has lots of reasons to be nervous.
Israel makes him nervous, America makes him nervous, Iran and Iraq makes him nervous, the Saudis make him nervous, Sunnis and Shi'ites make him nervous, he is really nervous over a certain tribe of pigmys in the Congo.
All in all he is a nervous wreck and the last thing he should do is cozy up to Beasty. What Assad really needs is a huge dose of Prozac, washed down by copious ammounts of beer. Preferably some of Algores Love Brew. All natural, not a carbon credit in it.
That wont make him less nervous, but he will forget who he is. Works every time, Bill Clinton was the first to try it, and look what happened to him.
Assad got verbal with Beasty because he knows Iran is not his friend, but a possible 'back stabbing enemy'. I'm sure Beastys idea of investigating Hariri's murder is just the tip of the iceberg of Syrias unhappiness with Iran.
Where's Algore when you need him. He could fix this rift in a second...well maybe two seconds...
If you drink some of Algores Love Brew and listen to him talk, you will soon forget who you are, and fall asleep. Such is the power of Algore, Assad and Beasty are not immune to this. Algore can put anyone to sleep. If he can do that to US liberals, he can do that to Assad and Beasty as well.
Algore...a force for peace in the Middle East, an idea who's time has come...Beasty...look out.

Posted by: duh_swami at March 7, 2007 4:43 PM

This is really par for the Islamic course.

Muslim leaders have always made a big show of falling all over one anothers necks, kissing and smooching in public as a show of Muslim solidarity, and the next day they try to kill one another.

King Hussein of Jordan and Yasser Arafat couldn't be affectionate enhough for the cameras. then in the 1970s, Arafat tried to overthrow the King. Hussein turned his army loose, killing thousands of Palestinians.

After the carnage, the two were madly in love again.

If they don't trust us, they trust one another even less. And they have good reason to mistrust one another. They are an untrust worthy people.

Posted by: rational at March 7, 2007 4:44 PM

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Hugh,

Based on the results of this little test and the much larger tests and subsequent failings, I'd say the curve has flattened out. Hell, there's not even a line to get on the escalator.

Posted by: Malinois at March 7, 2007 4:54 PM

RE: The eligibility test for the U.S. Green Card Lottery Program 2007

For those who don't know, I lied on all the the questions.
You know how these dry run/ probes work don't you?

My birth certificate says I was born in New York, U.S.A.
A most fortunate event!!!

Posted by: Malinois at March 7, 2007 5:02 PM

That is bollocks, the Paras fired because they were being fired upon. That is what soldiers do.

The real rules of counter insurgency are used by the SAS who are flexible enough to enter villages where the chance of a political victory is possible. Hostile housing estates do not count.

If you are looking for a political way out of a problem using soldiers then you are barking up the wrong tree. Even the SAS couldn’t solve the problems in NI. Although they were responsible for creating a lot of fear amongst republicans and smashing terrorist actions that otherwise would have gone unhindered.

The truth of the hard won military victories in Ireland came from the men and women who were prepared to infiltrate the IRA and take the ultimate risk of providing intelligence to the government. Without these near suicidal people the Brits would have been continually on the defensive, even with the SAS staking out attics and farmhouses in the bandit country.

Even then the cream of the British Intelligence and the SAS had the advantage of looking like their adversaries. All they needed to do was grow their hair and adopt the accent and they could walk through enemy areas unmolested. Today the enemy is much harder to infiltrate.

Even though we fought the hardest terrorists in the world for decades these lot, while they are not in the league of the IRA for professionalism are the most difficult bastards to infiltrate for westerners.

Posted by: Mert at March 7, 2007 5:11 PM

Hugh

"How long will it take this learning-curve to begin to take off, as it still strains and strains and strains to slope upward?"

Not in this administration it appears. So I will say at least 2 years! Then depending on the next twit who wins I will give you another prediction.

You posted this on December 19, 2006 and for as long as I have been reading your work on this site you have said this. The Iraq war is failure because nobody in leadership knows who is enemy is. Both Shia and Sunni doctrines of Islamic government and value systems go counter to our culture and what we view as a free democratic society with protections of the minority. Has anyone ever explained from the White House on down what we are facing?

In fact it seems to be getting worse not better.
The idea of using Islamic religious leaders to help us or worse allowed into the military strategy is beyond stupid. Sending troops out on the street in small patrols is stupid. Knocking on doors and asking the Islamic jihadis to come out on their own terms is stupid. Not going after the Iranians agents in Iraq quicker was stupid. Everything about this war goes counter to 2,500 years of military strategy and about 1400 years of Islamic history and yet somehow they think they can buck that history.

Until our leadership admits that Islamic teachings and ideals might have something to do with the enemy then we will just keep doing the same stupid thing over and over again.

Posted by: greatcometof1577 at March 7, 2007 5:14 PM

I don't trust either of them OR the Saudis.

This could be for show - maybe a distraction of some kind.

On another note: I found a blog that I had printed back last July and so will type it here. This is what they think is going to happen. Interesting, in light of what is supposed to be going on in the Khuzestan province (do a google news search).

The blog:

Soldier_of_mehdi
July 18 2006, 11:43 PM

No. In ahadith, Imam Mehdi (a.s) will appear in lower Iran, in the province of Khuzestan, and gather millions of followers and sweep west through Iraq and have a large battle in the city of Kufa with the Dajjal.

Then he will march to Syria and into Northern present day Lebanon and defeat the enemies of Islam.

Pray to hasten the reappearance of our Imam !!

End of blog post

Sorry folks, but I thought you might like to see what their nutty followers believe...

I just wonder if the MONKEY and that evil looking Sadr nut are planning it - thinking they can't lose or something stupid like that.

Posted by: The Goobs at March 7, 2007 5:17 PM

Goobs

Qum - where the well is that the Mahdi would come out of - is nowhere near Khuzestan. Are you sure you have your eschatological references correct?

Posted by: Infidel Pride at March 7, 2007 5:21 PM

"Ahmad whispers, "Come closer so I can suck your blood."

Posted by: champ "

...or something similiar...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 7, 2007 5:26 PM

Malinois ...

Can you, or anybody else, tell me why we have a lottery to give 50,000 new green cards to people, with FREE air fare to the United States? This is insane.

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 7, 2007 5:40 PM

Is it not possible that you would expect your enemy to push for a Tet style offensive in response to your bombing of his country? And if you were expecting this from him would you not bring in fresh troops and train them in the art of fighting in Baghdad?

Maybe clear your enemy out and see where and how he reacts, which channels the leaders use to leg it? Wouldn’t you want a firm grasp of Saigon/ Baghdad before you offered Giap/ Monkey the chance of political victory? Iran and the nutters are already talking about a Tet victory. Our advantage is now we know they want a political victory in Iraq, just like Giap won in Vietnam. There is no reason for mistaking the fireworks for an offensive, we should be prepared.

Posted by: Mert at March 7, 2007 5:49 PM

Infidel, I only wrote what the muslim blogger wrote. The site was talking about where the 12th Imam would appear. They were debating with each other. I thought this particular blog was interesting - in light of Iran's actions and military war games.

Posted by: The Goobs at March 7, 2007 5:56 PM

Assad and Ahmadinenutjob will probably kiss and make up during the summer.

Posted by: callmeinfidel at March 7, 2007 5:57 PM

Regarding the LAX incident.

The funniest comments I've read are on LGF. One person even suggested that the magnet and wires was a sort of compASS to help him know which direction to put his bum in the air when he was praying towards mecca.- cough-

Anyway.......folks,
I just want to make a few SERIOUS comments here and would like some serious answers from someone who actually knows something.

NEWS REPORT

The Iraqi national, a LEGAL U.S. resident, said he was trying to ease stress.

Al-Maliki, A FORMER SECURITY GUARD,

Question

A security guard? NOT HERE IN THE USA!!! SAY IT ISN'T SO! Was this AIRPORT security? What sort of security?????

NEWS REPORT

....told screeners that he knew what had triggered the alarm and proceeded to remove items from his rectum, including a rock, chewing gum and thin wire filament.

Question

So, HE started to remove items from his OWN rectom...there and then? I'll bet the screeners couldn't BELIEVE what they were seeing!

NEWS REPORT

...acting strange but initially refused to identify the items he had hidden.

A preliminary investigation appeared to rule out a theory that Al-Maliki may have been looking for weaknesses in security or was rehearsing for a terrorist act, federal and local law enforcement authorities said.

Question

Based on WHAT? His own words during the questioning? Geesh, the feds must think we are STUPID or something! Nothing here folks. Please keep using the airlines.

NEWS REPORT

....During questioning, Al-Maliki said the objects in his rectum were used to alleviate stress, federal law enforcement sources said.

The rock, authorities said he told them, was from another planet.

Question

Another planet!!! WHAT???? Sounds like this jerk was TRYING to sound insane to cover his tracks. On the other hand....maybe it was from the planet URANUS? he he

NEWS REPORT

...no other flights were disrupted at the airport, and Terminal 1, the building used by Southwest Airlines and US Airways, remained open.

Question

So then, this wasn't ENOUGH to sound an alarm? Good news for the terrorists then. All they need to do is put someone through acting WEIRD, complaining of STRESS with filaments up their bum and a load of OTHER terrorists can get on the OTHER flights while this is gong on.

Reminds me of the Saturday Night Live skit where an old lady is being checked over whilst terrorists with bullets over their shoulders and machine guns go through the metal detectors ignored in the background!

NEWS REPORT

Al-Maliki had been in the United States legally since 1994 but that federal officials were reviewing his immigration status because he may have outdated information on his green card.

Law enforcement sources said Al-Maliki previously served time in jail for criminal trespassing in Atlantic City.

In addition, he was arrested on suspicion of possession of a destructive device, but the sources said charges were dropped; details of the incident were unavailable.

Question

So folks, WHY THE HELL WAS HE STILL HERE???????

NEWS REPORT

A law enforcement source close to the investigation said Al-Maliki spent only a day in Los Angeles, arriving Monday afternoon after taking a flight from Philadelphia.

Question

I want to know EXACTLY where he was, who he met up with and what he was doing.

Posted by: The Goobs at March 7, 2007 5:57 PM

A little more on our "Iraqi" allies in this insurgency apparently is just one of those many insurgencies that
on average lasts ten years."

March 7, 2007, 2:28PM
Joint missions tricky affairs in Iraq

By RYAN LENZ Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. soldiers paced around their new outpost in Sadr City, checking their watches, drinking coffee and waiting for their Iraqi partners.

They finally rolled up more than two hours late.

It was supposed to be a seamless display of Iraqi and American cooperation in the urban fiefdom of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia. What it became, however, was a wrangle of competing commanders, bruised egos and conflicting priorities.

The troubles in launching just one joint mission late Tuesday pointed to the larger — and long-term — challenges of trying to mesh battle-hardened U.S. forces with untested Iraqi recruits as Baghdad's 3-week-old security crackdown tries to hold the ground it's reclaimed.

"If we get out of here by midnight, I'll call this a success," whispered Capt. Josh Taylor, 28, of Florence, Ala., a company commander from the Army's 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment.

Hours before, U.S. soldiers arrived at a former police station being converted to an Iraqi-U.S. compound. U.S. forces first entered the capital's sprawling Sadr City district on Sunday under a carefully scripted deal between military authorities and political allies of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.

The patrol was scheduled to get under way about 7 p.m. — with one of the first stops to see an informant promising to identify Mahdi Army members in hiding.

But there were no Iraqi forces around except for the handful of local policemen permanently stationed at the outpost.

The nearly 60 Americans went upstairs to wait. The Iraqis stayed in a makeshift lounge, nibbling on bread and cheese and watching the reality show "Pimp My Ride" on a satellite channel.

U.S. soldiers broke out some coffee. Some plugged in their iPods. Taylor and a few others reviewed plans for the mission.

Still no Iraqis. More coffee. More tunes. And more grumbling.

They began to show up about 9 p.m., but the full contingent of about 20 Iraqi troops was not ready until a half hour later.

The Iraqis were not prepared to hit the streets just yet, however. There was negotiating ahead.

First up: Who would ride in Humvees and who would walk? Standing on opposite sides of the white plastic table, Iraqi and U.S. commanders hashed it out through interpreters. The agreement: Officers from both sides could ride and lower-ranking soldiers would walk.

Taylor assured the Iraqis the U.S. mission was to teach them how to keep their neighborhoods safe — not to play big brother — and that cooperating was the only way to stop the violence. The Iraqis rolled their eyes and sighed quietly.

A cell phone rang and the Iraqi lieutenant left the room to chat, cutting off Taylor in mid-sentence.

"I would have already smacked him in his face," Sgt. Chase Decker, 23, of Port Orchard, Wash., muttered from a corner where he and three other U.S. soldiers were watching the culture clash unfold.

After hours of debate, midnight neared and the Iraqi commanders heard a translator explain the operation.

The Iraqis would take the lead. The Americans would follow to observe and help if problems erupted. But it was an Iraqi operation through and through, stressed Taylor.

"Insha'allah," the Iraqi lieutenant said — or "God willing" in Arabic.

With a note pad, Taylor outlined how close someone could get before the Iraqis could use deadly force on their patrols. He diagrammed how they could best stop traffic — and even where to point their guns when the patrol was moving.

But the informant was no longer part of the plan. He had long since fallen asleep.

Taylor instructed his men to watch for anything suspicious. He barred them from knocking on doors at the risk of angering anyone sleeping inside.

It's part of the Pentagon's soft-touch approach to Sadr City, which they fear could turn from grudgingly accommodating to downright hostile at the slightest provocation.

Taylor and 1st Lt. Eroch Cordts walked to the company's Humvees, which had been idling for hours.

Streets that just hours ago were buzzing with traffic and pedestrians had grown deserted. The night was quiet except for the hum of floodlights on the outpost.

Cordts, a 24-year-old platoon leader from Burlington, Iowa, pumped a fist into the air.

"Let's go catch some bad guys," he screamed.

Taylor sighed and smiled.

"Baby steps, now," he cautioned both sides. BBaby steps."

Posted by: Hugh at March 7, 2007 5:58 PM

Infidel,

Apparently different muslim sects have different beliefs about where this 12th Imam will 'appear'. It didn't suggest that the well was in the province of Khuzestan - only that the 12th Imam would 'appear' there....so maybe this muslim character comes out of a well somewhere else and then 'appears' in the province of Khuzestan? Maybe he sneaks there on his flying carpet?

Posted by: The Goobs at March 7, 2007 6:01 PM

The Madhi is a fixture only of "Twelver Shi'a Islam". There is also Fiver and Several Shi'ism, and they don't get into this.

The mythology of Twelver Shi'a Islam (Kheomeini's variety obviously) is that the Lesser Occultation is already past and we are now in the Greater Occultation. At the end of that, time unspecified, the Mahdi, or Hidden Imam, will appear, will rule for several years until a perfect world government is ensconced. Then Jesus will reappear. Then Husayn and Imam Ali will return.

And then ...

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 7, 2007 6:05 PM

P.S. For a good, succinct read of Twelver Shi'ism and the return of the Hidden imam, as well as differences between Twelver, Fiver and Sevener Shi'ism, see:

Keddie, Nikki. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution, Updated Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press (2006).

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 7, 2007 6:12 PM

exsgtbrown -- LOL!!

Posted by: champ at March 7, 2007 6:16 PM

Morgaan,
I went to the U.S. Dept. of State website and found this note in red letters:

There have been instances of fraudulent websites posing as official U.S. Government sites. Some companies posing as the U.S. Government have sought money in order to "complete" lottery entry forms. There is no charge to download and complete the Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form.

Apparently the website that said I, a native of Pakistan was eligible, is one of those fraudulent sites, because the official US site says that natives of Pakistan were not eligible in 2007.

Seems we have a "diversity is good for US" program in place: "The Congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States."

Pakistan was the only muslim country not eligible last year. The highest number of "winners" came from Iran and Turkey.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1322.html

Posted by: Malinois at March 7, 2007 6:23 PM

No, the REAL reason for Ass-ad's rage at A-jad on the telephone was because the time together they recently shared had been soooo fulfilling to Ass-ad, and he thought it had meant something special to A-jad as well. But when A-jad called him and told him that it was over, that their intimate moments together was a mistake and shouldn't have happened, that Ass-ad means nothing to A-jad, and that A-jad was going to go back to his camel and for Ass-ad to not call him anymore, well, it was all just too much for the scorned leader of Syria.

I mean it was bad enough years ago when Yassir had been Yassir at first to Ass-ad, but then he became No-sir. That was a heartbreaking loss to swallow.

And then Sadaam became Sodom to Ass-ad and life was beautiful again. But then mean old George came barging in and Sodom had to flee. But Ass-ad made do under the circumstances and even found comfort with Sodom in a tiny underground cave somewhere in the Sunni triangle. It was tight quarters, but they found comfort in each other's arms. Not too long afterward, Ass-ad stopped hearing from Sodom and was again crushed. Last he heard, Sodom was hanging around in other places in Iraq.

So Ass-ad found comfort in Al-Zarkawi who became Al-ZarWowie to Ass-ad for many nights that would otherwise have been lonely ones. But Ass-ad wrote him off when he heard that Al-ZarWowie had swallowed a bomb from some infidel called Uncle Sam.

So what was Ass-ad to do? Admittedly he was smitten by those cute little Persian eyes of A-jad's. So smitten we he that he comforted A-jad in their private matters telling A-jad that A-jad need not be self-conscious, that size did not matter to Ass-ad. Neither did performance ability, or lack thereof. In fact Ass-ad loved every little part of the little fella. But most of all he loved that black little heart that A-jad had. Ass-ad felt kinship; familiarity; yes, it was love.

So let's show some understanding for the jilted, love-torn, and abandoned Ass-ad. And it can't be easy on the little fella from Iran either who felt compelled to turn away from the only lover he had ever had that didn't laugh at the A-jad's, er, diminutive..ness.

Posted by: angryeagle at March 7, 2007 6:36 PM

Oh to be a fly on the wall in any of those nut bags's offices.

Israelies have spies everywhere,they had them here didn't they?

One does not last long under thier own rule without the neccesary information.

Of course the zombie information gathering goes something like

vat infolmation do you vish to give us,vee have vays of making you talk.

call me on my red phone if they start a shoot out because fat lips don't mean too much.

Posted by: Dar al-harb at March 7, 2007 6:50 PM

Malinois ...

Thank you! I was really freaking out there for a minute! It looked like the Bin Laden Crap Shoot to me there for a minute!

What a relief!

Thanks ...

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 7, 2007 7:06 PM

What with all the stupid, spineless politicians, Secretaries and sissy Generals unwilling to get the data on Islam and mucking things up, I'm looking forward to getting some relief by seeing 300 next week. An epic, cinematic recreation of "Men with Chests".

Spartan King Leonidas: This is where we fight! This is where they die!

Captain: On these shields, boys!

Spartan King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.

Persian Officer: SPARTANS! Lay down your weapons!

Spartan King Leonidas: Persians...COME AND GET THEM!

Spartan King Leonidas: We're in for one wild night.

Spartan King Leonidas: Give them nothing! But take from them everything!

Spartan King Leonidas: Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast, for tonight we dine in Hell!

Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.

Spartan King Leonidas: A new age has come, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

Spartan King Leonidas: This is where we fight. This is where they die.

Xerxes: Cruel Leonidas demanded that you stand. I require only that you kneel.

Persian Officer: Spartans, lay down your weapons.

Spartan King Leonidas: Come and get them!

Persian Emissary: This is madness!

Spartan King Leonidas: Madness? This is Sparta!

Spartan King Leonidas: We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

Posted by: Malinois at March 7, 2007 7:14 PM

The lead post on LGF at the moment shows Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embracing one another affectionately.

In the photo above, we see President Ahmadinejad in a clinch with Bashar Assad.

Earlier in the week, Mahmoud was seen holding hands with another man with a beard - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

The Iranian president is always surrounded by big, burly bodyguards.

And I believe that President Ahmedinejad is a fan of Judy Garland.

Mahmoud, Don't be shy...you can come out of that closet...

Posted by: A Nonny Nonny at March 7, 2007 7:17 PM

Which one goes by the screen name "LOLA"

Posted by: OLD SARGE at March 7, 2007 7:36 PM

Wow, we even have a soap opria about the dictators of Syria and Iran.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at March 7, 2007 8:00 PM

Double crossing, back stabbing, blackmail, protection, lying, and all the other things that make dar al Islam such a wonderful place to live and raise a family.

Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq equal Gambino, Genovese, Columbo, Lucchese, and Bonanno. The fictional Corleone, Tataglia, Barzini, Cuneo, and Stracci names will do also. Mario Puzo couldn't write this stuff.

Posted by: Pelayo at March 7, 2007 8:05 PM

I think the appropriately named Righteous Bros fits the situation at hand,
"You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips…
http://www.links2love.com/love_lyrics_96.htm

Posted by: tgusa at March 7, 2007 8:26 PM

"Earlier in the week, Mahmoud was seen holding hands with another man with a beard - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia."

All right, let’s have another round of kindergarten sniggering and tittering. This sort of garbage really lowers the quality of discussion here at Jihad Watch. Robert Spencer makes a Herculean effort to keep us and the public well-informed with intellectually honest and accurate information about the ever-present danger of Islamic terrorism. It is especially poor recompense for people to post their lewd and salacious speculations, especially when they demonstrate a palpable lack of understanding about Arab culture.

Let there be no doubt that I have a healthy skepticism with respect to Islam and the conduct of Muslims. However, I also attempt to show, not so much respect, but a sense of focus upon the task at hand. A Nonny Nonny, are you even aware that is it not an infrequent sight to see Arab men holding hands in public? Do you have even a vague idea about the greeting rituals and embraces shown between men in the Arab world? It is all too easy to make sordid attributions about the absence of women in public Arab culture and its effect upon men. None of that serves any worthwhile purpose at this web site.

So, do you think that most Arab men are homosexuals? What if I told you that many of the same behavioral traits are commonplace with Italian men as well? Are you just as willing to impugn the culture that gave us Giacomo Casanova with such effete insinuations? Why don’t we have a rousing chorus of “Ragheads”, “Tentheads” and “Diaperheads”? It would be just about as mature and on topic.

It is all too easy to giggle and make off-color innuendoes about a culture that you have little understanding of. Perhaps you needs to consider the real damage that is being done. There are indications that there is a pandemic of child sexual abuse in Muslim culture. I suggest that you read Phyllis Chesler’s account of this horrible back-story. Here are some excerpts:

[Dr. Nancy] Kobrin, and her Israeli co-author, counter-terrorism expert Yoram Schweitzer, describe barbarous family and clan dynamics in which children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of 7-12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomized; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonor and treated accordingly: very, very badly.

[Walid] Shoebat confirmed the widespread sexual abuse of both boys and girls in Palestinian society. "It is a strange society. Homosexuality is forbidden but if you're the penetrator, not the penetrated, it's okay." He is describing prison sexuality. "If you're a teenage boy with no hair on your legs other boys your age will pinch your butt and tease you. Once, I saw a class of clothed teenage boys sexualize their gymnastics exercizes. And once, on a hiking trip, I saw a line of shepherd boys waiting for their turn to sodomize a five year old boy. It was unbelievable."

Shoebat's father also told him stories about starving Arab men who would barter sex for meat from Iraqi soldiers. According to Shoebat, teenage boys prey upon younger children; older male relatives prey upon pre-adolescent and adolescent boys and girls. They do not have intercourse with the girls since this would render them un-marriageable and bring shame upon their families.
(Link: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13230 )

While I refuse to permit Muslims their usual claim of eternal victim status, it is clear that Islamic society has some severe problems. Feel free to connect childhood sexual abuse to overt displays of affection between Arab men, but your linkage may be as inappropriate as your sense of humor. By comparison, angryeagle’s salty send up about the romantic antics of these Muslim leaders is an honest bit of comedic relief. At least no one is expected to take it seriously.

A Nonny Nonny, you and every other person here at Jihad Watch that indulges in such tiresome and unfounded presumptions about the sexual orientation of the subjects being discussed serve only to drag down the tone and quality of presentation. Again, is this any way to repay all of Robert’s and Hugh’s hard work? People who might have their eyes opened, Muslims who might finally see a glimmer of alternate reality can, instead, find justification in dismissing what they find here as more infantile name-calling and puerile schoolyard taunting by adolescent mentalities.

Again, I take a dim view of Islam and Muslim conduct in general. However, I prove my points with facts and logical conclusions worthy of being drawn from that data. I refuse to waste your time and everybody else’s with vacuous and prurient speculation when it serves the Jihad Watch web site absolutely no good.

Posted by: Zenster at March 7, 2007 9:19 PM

Is there anything we can do to add fuel to the fire? In a friendly way I mean.

Posted by: BunrattyBill at March 7, 2007 10:06 PM

Foehammer -

I look forward to viewing your video and will pass it along to others.

Posted by: Mo at March 7, 2007 10:24 PM

@ Mo: Thanks very much.

So far, I'm happy to report that my blog has entertained the most hits in a single day since I first created it, no doubt due to my posting on YouTube.

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

Jihadists think they are a stubborn lot. Heh.

Here I come.

Posted by: Foehammer at March 7, 2007 10:48 PM

"I'm wearing woman's underwear"...."in your favorite color too"

Posted by: champ at March 7, 2007 10:50 PM

Foehammer - Lovely work on Part 1

Have Favorited(?) it on YouTube, commented, clicked that Digg thing and all the rest. Will be posting a link on my journal as well.

We'll continue to get word out, one person at a time!

Posted by: Mo at March 7, 2007 11:21 PM

I just had a horrible thought. What if Sunni and Shiites spiral downwards into fratricidal bloodthirsty warfare and jeopardize the tourist base necessary to make a success of the Persian Gulf branch of the Louvre???

Posted by: poetcomic

I had an even more horrible thought. How long until they will call the Paris Louvre the branch and the one in the Gulf the Original?

Posted by: Allahfanculo at March 7, 2007 11:23 PM

Until our leadership admits that Islamic teachings and ideals might have something to do with the enemy then we will just keep doing the same stupid thing over and over again.

Posted by: greatcometof1577

Use of Logic wil always work - no matter the situation. I think it is logical to fight an enemy by using his own tactics against him. Meaning that you cannot show any mercy to an enemy who shows none whatsoever each and every chance he gets.

Their tactic of hudna only works as long as the other side [meaning us] doesn't have the stomach to fight as for example the Serbas fought these devils.

We used our overwhelming capabilities to destroy a friend [Serbia] and to aid our eternal foe - islam.

We must learn to put aside all squeamishness when it comes to dealing with isam. It is a luxury we simply cannot afford.

Look at Israel. They should have destroyed the mosk that sits on top of their Temple Mount as soon as they took Jerusalem. That would have been a statement of Might to the MoFoes. Sparing the mosk gave them opportunity to whinge and weasel and worm their way back into Jerusalem.. to claim any iota of legitimate claim to Jerusalem.

Now that they have an islamic council administrating the Temple Mount they continue to fever toward the eventual elimination of Israel.

Why do you think they hate the fence so much? Because the Fence creates FACTS ON THE GROUND! The fence demarcates a boundary.

We all know they HATE boundaries and don't consider nations as nations. Their nations are dar-es-salami and ours are dar-al-harb.

So now Dar-al-harn is demarcating CLEAR lines in the sand by building the Fence. Same line should have been demarcated by removing that abominable mosk in Jerusalem the day that Israel had the chance.

The arabs call them all kinds of bad names but I say that its very humanity may one day be Israel's undoing.

We either have to fight like them or we might as well not start.

Preserving our humanity toward one another while sparing none for this relentless and inhuman enemy.

islam removes humanity from any soul that becomes infected with it. I see no hope for reform so my logic says we must use all of our advantages of technological and logistical Superiority.

I could say more but I don't wish to be banned.

Anyone who understands logic knows where this must go.

This is NOT something I wish for. It is merely the logical conclusion I draw based on the actions of this enemy since its inception. The more I learn about islam the more hard-line I get.

Posted by: Allahfanculo at March 7, 2007 11:39 PM

NEWS REPORT

....During questioning, Al-Maliki said the objects in his rectum were used to alleviate stress, federal law enforcement sources said.

Now we know how to release stress the HALAL way for all those weary jihadists at Camp Gitmo!

Let noone say we're not helping them release stress.

Posted by: Allahfanculo at March 7, 2007 11:43 PM

Lets get one thing straight. Syria needs not be our enemy. They are the enemies of our enemies. The Assads, father and son, are BIG enemies of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni terrorists, and have killed them ruthlessly.

Whatever else Syria is doing in the region is not our problem.

Posted by: george_rem at March 7, 2007 11:47 PM

"This is NOT something I wish for. It is merely the logical conclusion I draw based on the actions of this enemy since its inception. The more I learn about islam the more hard-line I get."

I understand you completely, Allafanculo. It would be splendid if what is to come could, at all, be avoided. Quite simply, IT CANNOT.

The choice does not even lie in our hands. There are no options. Islam will bring destruction upon itself without any help from the West.

Posted by: Zenster at March 7, 2007 11:51 PM

Pogo would say----"I have met the little enemy and he is us."

Posted by: guide inside at March 8, 2007 3:02 AM

What do you reckon them rectal objects was???

Maybe they are pictured above.

Posted by: guide inside at March 8, 2007 3:09 AM

Malinois,

Just admit it, you're a Muslim mole.

A really really intelligent one.
With a great sense of humor.
And rapid-fire wit.
And, well, with all those qualities, probably one of the most unique Muslims around.

Ok, you're a New Yorker.

--

I don't go to the movies much, but will be this week to see 300. I'm a much bigger fan of Frank Miller after hearing this interview on npr.

Posted by: deesine at March 8, 2007 3:44 AM

Zenster,

It is regrettable that my flip, off-hand comment about Ahmadinejad's campness has elicited such a spectacularly pompous response from your good self.

Your questions and observations, however, appear to be inspired by a series of inferences that are themselves rather off-beam.

No, I don't think that "most Arab men are homosexual"; no, you do not need to educate me on the ways of Italian men because I have been living and working in Italy, on and off, for 25 years; no, I am not seriously speculating that Adhmadinejad - or any other world leader for that matter - is gay; and no, terms such as 'ragheads' are not acceptable because they are racist.

And so on.

Anyhoos, if my comments caused offence, then this is indeed regrettable. I promise that I shall never again "drag down the tone and quality of presentation" of this site or demean the excellent work of Robert and Hugh by posting any comments that could possibly be deemed salacious, flippant or childish.

Posted by: A Nonny Nonny at March 8, 2007 4:21 AM

Although the Persians won at Thermopylae , They suffered severe losses, the 300 defenders were well disciplined and accurate with their arrows. They held the pass of three days, allow the rest of the Greek force to escape. The Greeks later crushed the Persian Navy and turned the tide...

....Just because you lose a battle, it does not mean you lose the war....

....So it goes with Islam..THe Muslims may appear to win here and there, They ultimately will lose the war....

....The MSM and the dhimmicrats are ready to throw in the towel everytime a few casualties occur....

....try pointing out to your local dhimmicrats that more Americans are murdered in America by illegal immigrants (about 2100 per year per FBI stats) than are killed in Iraq (about 500 combat deaths per year)....be ready to absorb the verbal abuse you will receive....Then point out the number of black on black murders in the USA in any large city, It is not unusal to see 10-15 deaths in one week per city...Just google "Murder rates" and you will see a state by state murder rate, the numbers given are per 100,000 population. the rate, when calculated, is high as is the total number of murders inflicted by Americans on Americans.....

...you may then realize the number of casualties in Iraq is really very small considering the hostile nature our soldiers are enduring....Consider in WWII, there were several battles that lasted only a few weeks in which thousands of US deaths were sustained...but we endured, we won....

....Iraq is but a battle, we will win it...unless the dhimmicrats force us to "cut and run."

Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 8, 2007 7:07 AM

Angry eagle;

I am not up on the Bible they way I should be, but isn't the total destruction of Damascus one of the opening acts in the great war in Revelation?

Aunt Bea

Posted by: auntbea at March 8, 2007 8:09 AM

Angryeagle,

I'm still laughing at your little "love story" above.

Nonny Nonny and Zenster,

I remember a few years ago when the Saudi king visited Bush's Texas ranch, the two of them were photographed holding hands and making googoo eyes at each other. Thinking of all the problems that Saudi Arabia causes in the world, we can only wish that it had been sexual. Unfortunately, it's the politcal buggery that endangers us all.

Posted by: Provoslavni at March 8, 2007 10:28 AM

Zenster,

Islam may bring destruction on itself without any help from the West but that will be only because they will have first destroyed the West (with our acquiescence, of course). When there are no more enemies for them to fight they will of course turn on one another. But it will be too late for the rest of us.

Sunnis and Shiites may fight one another, but the victor will still be Islam, unless we destroy it first or unless Muslims decide to change their ways and renounce three quarters of their religious dogma. How likely is either of those scenarios? Not very! Winner, by default: ISLAM.

Posted by: PMK at March 8, 2007 12:18 PM

I am not up on the Bible they way I should be, but isn't the total destruction of Damascus one of the opening acts in the great war in Revelation?

Aunt Bea

Aunt Bea, You are correct. Check out Isaiah 17:1-4

Posted by: fedupinamerica at March 8, 2007 2:45 PM

"terms such as 'ragheads' are not acceptable because they are racist."

A Nonny Nonny, I'm really glad that you think so. If I seemed to tar you with that brush, then I apologize.

"Anyhoos, if my comments caused offence, then this is indeed regrettable. I promise that I shall never again "drag down the tone and quality of presentation" of this site or demean the excellent work of Robert and Hugh by posting any comments that could possibly be deemed salacious, flippant or childish."

I have zero authority to ask that you do so. I do want to thank you for having the decency to reply. Your comments were not so much "offensive" to me as they were off-topic. Sometimes I make snide or snarky comments as well. At times the subject matter in discussion almost demands it. The article about that curious Muslim suppository is a good example.

However, far too many important web sites that are dedicated to fighting terrorism get clogged up with juvenile sniping about "ragheads" and the like. I find that truly sad due to how crucial it is that Americans, and people in general, gain an understanding of this huge threat.

Again, thank you for clarifying. It seems that we are probably more in agreement than either of us might suspect.

Posted by: Zenster at March 9, 2007 8:59 PM