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Monday, April 07, 2003 |
Hear that? Its the sound of few thousand new Osamas being born While most of the comments in this piece are born out of the same type of gross ignorance, stereotypes, and propaganda that causes some Americans to shoot Sikh storeowners, it doesn't mitigate the seething, anti-US sentiment of the Arab Street...and a new wave of fundamentalism in the Middle East & "Blowback" against the US that is sure to follow it.
M.C. No Shame
3:16:59 PM 
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ANOTHER TOP FIVE? YOU SPOIL US, SADDAM-LOVER!
No snow yet, but plenty of headlines to make you angry.
"Lord, Bless This Defender of Freedom": The Figurine Order now! Don't be
the last ironic hipster and/or demented right wing whackjob on your street
to own this terrifying piece of war kitsch! Perfect for members of the
Presidential Prayer Team for Kids!
Consultants: Smother Protests, Push Patriotism Advice to TV and radio
stations includes: "Get the following production pieces into the studio
NOW. . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for
the emotion. . . air the National Anthem at a specified time each day as
long as the USA is at war." But about all those pesky protesters?
"Polarizing discussions are shaky ground. . . not when our young men and
women are 'in harm's way.'"
Army Chaplain Will Let Soldiers Bathe Only if They Get Baptized
First Can't make this stuff up, folks. Quote: "CAMP BUSHMASTER, Iraq -
In this dry desert world near Najaf, where the Army V Corps combat support
system sprawls across miles of scabrous dust, there's an oasis of sorts: a
500-gallon pool of pristine, cool water.
It belongs to Army chaplain Josh Llano of Houston, who sees the water
shortage, which has kept thousands of filthy soldiers from bathing for
weeks, as an opportunity.
'It's simple. They want water. I have it, as long as they agree to get
baptized,' he said."
Jews, Muslims, atheists, Catholics in the army? Tough. Get baptized or
stay filthy. Note to the Presidential Prayer Team: Whatever you're doing,
it's working. Now cut it out.
Marines in
Iraq Ordered to Ditch Chemical Suits Hey, wasn't somebody in that part
of the world supposed to have chemical weapons? Wasn't there a "red zone"
around Baghdad which, if crossed, would lead to the use of chemical weapons
against US troops? Nope - just my imagination, I guess.
A Class War,
Of Sorts Guess what? The majority of people fighting this war in Iraq
are working class or poor, while the people in the upper echelons of the
administration are overwhelmingly wealthy. This seems so obvious it's
almost strange that someone remarked on it.
-Consider Arms
3:00:56 PM
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TODAY'S TOP FIVE
More posts, more anger, and yes. . . more GD snow.
We "Elected" the Wrong Bush in
2000 From the NYTimes: Bush the First "never liked" Donald Rumsfeld and
constitutes, along with Tony Blair and Colin Powell, an "axis of virtue" on
foreign policy. Wow. If the former CIA head and Iran Contra taintee,
General My Lai, and the British lapdog are the "axis of virtue," virtue
isn't long for this world.
The
People of Northern Ireland Agree: Bush and Blair Blow They decided to
hold this meeting on Tony's home turf as a sop to his submissiveness, but
realized that anywhere on the British mainland would incur massive anti-war
demonstrations. So, where to have the war summit? Belfast, of course! No
protests there, right? Wrong - the Unionists despise Blair and the
Republicans hate Bush, and so a big protest march is planned. Nice going,
gents. They should have had the summit in the Falklands; that would have
been symbolically consistent, anyway.
War is No Time for Your Anti-War Messages! A high school
principal in Lynn, Mass. ("Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin/you never come out
the way you went in") has banned the showing of Michael Moore's "Bowling for
Columbine" because of "anti-war" themes in the film. "This is not the
time," says the principal. This is a valuable lesson for today's young
people, and I hope this principal is given Massachusetts' equivalent of the
Administrator of the Year award for his courageous effort to prevent
students from making connections between school and the real world.
1,000 Massacred in
the Congo: "Operation Congolese Freedom" Coming Up Next? The governments
in that region have killed thousands of their own people, as this report
demonstrates, just like Saddam. Moreover, instability in the Congo is a
threat to that country's neighbors: In the past seven years, the Congolese
civil war has spilled into other countries like Uganda and Rwanda, creating
the first African World War. So, what are we waiting for? Come on, who's
with me? Last one into Kinshasa is a rotten egg! What do you mean, "but they
don't have any oil"?
Your Tax Dollars at Work or, How Much Would
You Pay for this Kitchen? The US, at the request of UN Ambassador (and
Iran Contra taintee) John Negroponte, is going to pay $600,000 to renovate
the kitchen at Negroponte's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. At a time when
the country is fighting one major war and engaging in several low-intensity
conflicts, when the economy is deep in its second year of recession, when
three states have canceled presidential primaries for lack of money, and
when governments on the state and local levels are raising taxes and cutting
services, I think I speak for all Americans when I say that there is
absolutely no better way to spend $600,000 than on kitchen remodeling for a
man who spent the
1980s participating in cover-ups on behalf of Honduran death squads.
-Consider Arms
2:37:51 PM
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Devious State Department 'Arabists' Need A Dose of Freedom Fries If you thought the recent bout of recriminations being tossed between the White House and the Pentagon were juicy, wait till you get a load of the simmering beef between the State Department and the Pentagon. In one corner we've got the ever diplomatic Rumsfeld, who wants to stack the Iraqi Interim Authority with exiled Iraqis "because of their experience living in the West" (how very Raj of him). And in the other corner we've got internationalist Powell, who actually would like to see relations with our anti-war, European allies be mended by including a UN presence in the IIA. Who will win? One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war!
How to lose a presidential campaign in one comment Taking a cue from anti-war signage, presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry called for regime change in Washington during a recent speech in NH. Note to Kerry: please turn your campaign coffers over to Howard Dean, now that you won't be needing them.
- M.C. No Shame
12:29:00 PM
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