: The video has been debunked and is NOT the Fallujah attack but some other attack.
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The Islamic Army in Iraq has released a video of an IED attack against Marines in Fallujah. The attack killed 10 Marines. Images from the video are posted below. They are not graphic, but may be disturbing.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has also released a video of its Ramadi offensive. Images posteed below and right. For links to video, please e-mail author.
The video shows a Marine patrol and a Hummer rolling down an alley or a narrow road, on which civilians are present. The Hummer passes the Marines as it approaches the terrorist's position. The IED explosion is large and does damage to the Humvee, but the driver inside appears to be able to continue to drive the vehicle. Civilians can be seen panicking and fleeing. The video then becomes shaky as the terrorist flees the scene.
The video reveals why the IED attack was so devestating. Presumably, like most incidents of this nature, the IED was planted with the expectation that it would be exploded as a vehicle or convey passed. The terrorists, it would seem, just got 'lucky' in that on this particular day a foot patrol decided to walk down the wrong alley.
Despite media reports of 'mounting casualties', attacks are down in Iraq. The IED attack reveals that the so-called insurgents cannot mount even an effective attack against U.S. positions.
Yesterday, propagandists for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq posted a message claiming they had taken 'control of Ramadi'. This despite the fact that the terrorists were only able to fire a single mortar shell at a U.S. position and less than 300 U.S. troops and 200 Iraqis were used in the counteroffensive. The counteroffensive turned out to be nothing more than the troops entering Ramadi unnoposed and turned into a routine search and sweep operation.
The only evidence that al Qaeda offered that they 'controlled' Ramadi was a short video by their IMC media arm showing a group of masked young men in cheap warm-up pants and tee shirts slowly going down a narrow alley. There are no more than seven or eight terrorists in the group. That's right, 7-8 terrorists with AK-47's and a single RPG! An image from that video is posted above and a few more are posted below.
So, if the 'insurgency' cannot hold any territory, is not very popular in the eyes of even Sunnis these days, and must resort to remotely detonated bombs and hostage taking, in what lies their hope of victory?
The media and spineless politicians in Washington D.C.
The spinmeisters at al Jazeera, Jihad Unspun, and Uruknet report the communique as fact and then, trying to turn this into some grand irony, announce that the Ramadi 'victory' comes only days after Bush announced his strategy for victory. As if a single IED and a handful of sweat-pants clad 'insurgents' are a threat to U.S. victory in Iraq!
It would all be very laughable if the U.S. media wasn't so busy hand-wringing and having LSD induced flashbacks of Vietnam. The media spin then leads the American public to think that this insurgency poses an actual threat and that somehow we cannot win in Iraq. All of this is not helped by the extreme Left wing of the Democratic party which is all to eager to see America lose in Iraq.
Folks, the only threat to our long-term victory in Iraq comes not form the terrorists, but from spineless politicians in the U.S.
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Yet more evidence that these bastards must be high as kites to think as they do... too bad a lot of US politicos must have raided their stash of 'shrooms, as you said.
But come on, Rusty, you give these guys a hard time. Have you ever worn Addidas warm-up pants? Those things are so comfortable! How could one ever go pack to a crap-soaked one-piece after those pants? I think it is simply more evidence of the CIA corrupting the noble Holy Warriors.
Posted by: Wine-aholic at December 03, 2005 04:11 PM (sH4J5)
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"Despite media reports of 'mounting casualties', attacks are down in Iraq."
Oct was the 4th deadliest month. I haven't yet found a site with monthly attack numbers.
The analysis of the pant leg and bicycle is wrong on the image. That's the left pant leg that's rolled up. A bicycle chain is on the right side.
Posted by: actus at December 03, 2005 04:15 PM (dFCoa)
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actus:
despite all your wishing, they won't win!
Posted by: dave at December 03, 2005 04:29 PM (CcXvt)
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This seems to have casualties reported by month. I am surprised you had not found it...
As a larger question, are we mixing terms here? Are we taking "number of deaths" or "number of attacks" as the metric? The two are certainly different.
Posted by: Wine-aholic at December 03, 2005 04:43 PM (sH4J5)
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"This seems to have casualties reported by month. I am surprised you had not found it...
As a larger question, are we mixing terms here? Are we taking "number of deaths" or "number of attacks" as the metric? The two are certainly different."
I know about icasualties.org. Its a site about # of attacks that I don't know of, not # of dead.
Posted by: actus at December 03, 2005 04:50 PM (dFCoa)
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this will convince the Liberals that jihadis have reconquered Iraq, because that's exactly what they need to believe. What else are they going to run on in '08.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 03, 2005 06:04 PM (8e/V4)
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Agent Jones reports that the VC used bicycles to travel quietly in Vietnam in order not to attract attention.
Agent Brown realized that bicycles were used by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka for transporting explosives and suicide bombers.
Agent Smith knows that the Seattle Police Department also uses bicycles to stealthily approach and subdue suspects.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 06:08 PM (VDGim)
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Is actus right about the bicycle pants leg? If so I told this guy is sharp!
maybe its like an islamic hip hop gang thing - kinda like their colors. They don't seem to have any basebal caps to wear sideways so I guess their are making due with cheap hotel towels.
How would rap actually sound in arabic? Anybody wanna give it a shot?
Posted by: hondo at December 03, 2005 06:16 PM (3aakz)
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Dirka-dirka, my bitch is in Burka,
like Mohammed did Jihad,
I rock the Baghdad,
the soldiers, they don't see me,
rollin' in my VBIED,
under tha' seat, the RDX blew,
my virgins bitches, they number seventy-two,
Alah Ackbarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
short notice, what can I say ;/
Posted by: dave at December 03, 2005 06:31 PM (CcXvt)
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Agent Brown has discovered that, historically, when a strong army fights fragmented and weak enemies, the strong army becomes weakened and the weak enemies are strenghtened. The ragtag, bicycle riding enemies are a most dangerous signal.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 07:30 PM (VDGim)
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I think we discussed this the other day, not only is this insurgency no different than any other insurgency, counter-insurgency methods are already undermining both the terrorists, and insurgents alike.
The average insurgency lasts nine years, I would say we're well ahead of schedule, would you not?
Posted by: dave at December 03, 2005 07:44 PM (CcXvt)
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a reoccuring post to follow ...
Agent Smith
Mort Sahl was a satirist and an ultra-liberal and was quite funny and good at it.
Al Franken is a satirist and an ultra-liberal and not funny at all - he's actually quite bad at it.
You wish to be a satirist (as opposed to a comedian - there is a difference) - and follow in the footsteps of lil' Al.
Well - those are tiny shoes to fill, and you are doing an adequate job of it.
Posted by: hondo at December 03, 2005 08:08 PM (3aakz)
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Agent Smith says that Hondo still needs training wheels on his bicycle.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 08:21 PM (VDGim)
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Of course, the left may tend to argue that the bicycle clip proves the "insurgents" are also eco-warriors who eschew mechanised transport.
On the other hand, don't forget that the principle means of transport of NVA and VC was the bicycle, used to shift many thousands of tonnes of supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Historically, all "insurgencies" tend to die after an average of six years of determined suppression. E.g, the Boer rebellion, Malaya and Aden. Viet Nam was an exception, yet it remains perversely touted as some kind of paradigm. The question remains one of having the determination to persist.
Posted by: booyakka at December 03, 2005 08:37 PM (n66qx)
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Can I just say something about our media? The other day I heard an interview of a reporter in Iraq. He commented on the very videos and pictures shown here and also commented about how the Pentagon issues its press reports.
What amazed me was this MSM reporter took the insurgent's videos and images completely at face-value while commenting on the "spin" the U.S. military uses to issue reports.
When are these media people going to wake up and realize that they're being completely and utterly manipulated by a terrorist insurgency?
Posted by: J at December 03, 2005 09:32 PM (/P1rH)
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Agent Smith researched the 2007 war with Iran and how it played out. Once Iran controlled Sistani-land in the south of Iraq, the retreating Americans were harassed all the way back to Kuwait. It was a bad scene, for which President Bush was finally impeached in the latter half of 2008.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 09:37 PM (VDGim)
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>>>"The question remains one of having the determination to persist."
The Left's only determination is to see the mission fail. They believe failure in Iraq is the only way to regain their political power. Loyalty to party supercedes loyalty to country. They are traitors.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 03, 2005 10:34 PM (8e/V4)
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Agent Brown opines on the statement, "Loyalty to party supercedes loyalty to country." Loyalty is a concept that is prevalent in all human societies. Like you, in our quest to secure the core network against all threats, all Agents are fiercely loyal to the Architect and follow every one of his orders, however ridiculous.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 10:49 PM (VDGim)
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why not save the next post, and have a wank instead.
Posted by: dave at December 04, 2005 12:09 AM (CcXvt)
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I think Hondo hit the nail on the head. Rappist terrorists.
Posted by: greyrooster at December 04, 2005 07:05 AM (gvOyZ)
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Iraq use to be one of the most wealthiest financially,and the most Educated people on the planet.But When Sadam Hussein rfused to Jump and rollever" anymore.Embargos, enforced restrictions, secret bombings, crippling Iraqs infrastructures by Americans and its partners the true axis of evil" bought Iraq to the pathetic state its in now.They might have bent them. But the spirit will never be broken. Good on ya freedom fighters kill, maim, murder as many yank, brit and coalition assoles as possible send them back to mom and pops or is it mummy and daddy in bodybags .I,m a kiwi born and bred but even in this bubble i can see scumbag arrogant assoles cornfed on lies by the biggest terrorists Bush,Blair and rest of the Coalition lapdogs you morons emailing in wouldnt have the guts to die for any cause whatsoever.Fighting for Iraqi peoples freedom?You scumbag soldiers,security personel are murdering them and that is the reason you will never win if the people aren,t on side then more freedom fighters you will produce, this invasion proves the stupidity of coalition soldiers fighting for a war based on lies but like the emperor's new clothes" we will pretend we dont see it but I,m hoping like heck Your father's ,mother's sister's, brothers's will see it when your pinebox coffins come rolling off the planes.By the way that kiwi idiot student who happened to be taken hostage along with other do-gooders these vultures just like all the rest are by-products of this illegal invasion please cut his godamn throat and all the others, make it slow and from ear to ear just like that American jerkoff make sure you have it on the net.Good luck insurgent freedom fighters, the road will be very hard and very long but the more American,British, Coalition and do-gooders bodies sent home in bits an pieces maybe will show the world tha this lie of a invasion must come to an end.
Posted by: freedom at December 04, 2005 05:53 PM (cQE8Q)
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You are not a Kiwi arab dog because you can't even write properly and NZ is an English speaking country. You are just another islamic bastard living it up in the west because your own country is so shitty. How many state benefits have you and your parasitic clan bludged while decrying the efforts of the western world?
Posted by: Jester at December 04, 2005 06:12 PM (wBDaS)
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freedom?
What's ya point?
Posted by: hondo at December 04, 2005 06:22 PM (3aakz)
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Oh poor jester you got my ethnicity wrong.You also have my employment status wrong.Forgive my my English its not quite up to scratch but when i see innocent civilians, Being fired indiscriminately at.I ask myself as I shake with outrage I'd better get my comments grammatically correct because.Jester the Professor in English my find this more shocking than gutless men mowing down innocent people.eres
My ethnicity is Samoan but I would love to meet you so you can walk the talk big man.Jester your obviously a white gutless how did you put it DOG!!
Posted by: freedom at December 04, 2005 06:41 PM (cQE8Q)
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Samoans would have their head sawn off by Zaqueery too, most are Christian. You'll have to travel a long way to meet me but I'm not gutless having already fought for my country. It's a shame you are Samoan as I have a few Samoan friends from my years in the South Pacific. Siding with the muslims shows you are ill-informed...Talofa dude.
Posted by: Jester at December 04, 2005 07:42 PM (wBDaS)
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Fought for your country?What and that makes you courageous.Like your soldiers are fighting for their country now?You call Having the largest nuclear arsenal,the most sophisticated weaponry built.Spending trillions on reseach to produce even more futuristic weaponry to kill,maim your fellow man, you call that fighting.You might as well be fighting against people who are using sticks and stones!!an example When you Killed Sadams son's obviously they were such a threat anti tank rockets had to be repeatedly fired into that house.That's your idea of fighting? That's why unlike you these,insurgents I call them freedom fighters have had to resort to suicide bombings now there's real balls, that's real courage.Thats something, us living the West will never understand.I suggest you do a bit reading you sound like an older person.BUT surely you can understand when you try to impose your will another persons country.That's like backing people into a corner. Mate! wake up! They're fighting you back with weapons made in the West! Some even made in the good 'ol USA. Have you found Sadams secret stash of WMD?no
Is their a link between 9/11 and Iraq?hell no
Are the Iraqi people better off now then they were under Sadam's Regime?bloody hell no the only difference now is, we the almighty West the saviours are murdering them, and you know why mate BECAUSE THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME!! our coalition forces cannot or will not tell the difference between friend or foe so with our own safety in mind kill anything that moves. The Iraqi's have gone from a stable dictatorship under Sadam to this godforsaken Bloodbath.
So what was this War all about? Control of their resources?Hell yeah If anybody thought that the deaths of hundreds of thousands on whoever's side just to get rid of Sadam, the reason, grow up.If even a quarter of the trillions spent instead of trying to come up with new ways of snuffing out human beings was spent on researching for alternative energy sources.Then the USA truly would be the beacon of democracy, instead of the overfed bully.Then we wouln't be online like bloody kids, throwing insults an our two cents.
Posted by: freedom at December 04, 2005 09:05 PM (cQE8Q)
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If freaking bloody jihadists were not trying to take over the World, mr. freedom, we wouldn't have to be over there kicking their asses. The last time I checked the jihadists were taking heavy casualties while ours were light. My God, mr. freedom, 30,000 men were lost trying to protect your sorry ass from the Japanese. Shit, and you call yourself freedom. You need to sober up, you DA.
Posted by: jihadibane at December 04, 2005 09:29 PM (rUyw4)
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Maybe you need a history lesson your buddie's in the true axis of evil.The Brits found the remains of two japanese one man mini submersibles.It was on BBC. Check it out.Your Navy in Pearl Harbour dropped depth charges on them, they were outside the no spy zone.I mean you rant an moan when your caught spying.Killing of two men OUTSIDE the restricted area was an act of War. That's Why the Japs bombed Your Navy.BUT YOU HAVE A SELECTIVE MEMORY.Growing up I got the fed the usual history lessons,movies books (propaganda) the dastardly yellow peril were to blame.Surprise, Surprise Hey this might even surprise you.The Japs didn't attack you for no bloody apparent reason you attacked them first.But of course your'e always innocent your'e always right as long as you fool the public with half truths ,lies and try to rewrite history.By the way,the way China's going mate you and I are going to have to start learning to speak mandarin or whatever it would have been so much easier if I knew how to speak Japanese.
Posted by: freedom at December 04, 2005 10:15 PM (O2l+4)
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...from a stable dictatorship to a godforsaken bloodbath.??????
Actually it was a pretty intense bloodbath prior - simply kept off camera - dictatorships are kinda funny like that.
Now you get to see all the blood courtesy freedom of the press from the media - a democracy is kinda funny like that.
Can't miss the carnage - what with all those car bombings, suicide bombers, beheadings and such. The target of course is the Iraqi people themselves - men, women and children - the oddest thing is that the ones doing this are loyal supporters of Saddam and islamic fundamentalists. Unless of course you believe its American GIs driving the car bombs and strapping explosives to themselves.
Whatever - so when a suicide car bomber kills dozens or a hundred Iraqi civilians do you applaud?
I got to stop - I recognize simple-minded anti-Americanism - not worth pursuing - doubt you could find Iraq on the map or give a damn about them one way or the other.
So, how's the weather down there - coconut crop going to be good this year?
Posted by: hondo at December 04, 2005 10:34 PM (3aakz)
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oh please Hondo,anti Americanism If I have a different view .I,ll admit somewhat skewed but my own view isn't that freedom.But, would you know what that is? or is it you need other people to think for you.What's that your lying president said 45min is the time it would take for strike against you.Funny hondo the emperor's wearing invisible clothes but just as long as you pretend to see them.Now that's simple minded.What makes it worse is ignorance is no excuse. You do know this is exactly what,s going on in Palestine, funny how it is, another illegal occupation, suicide bombings.You hondo don't get it.Why are there more civilian casualties then actual combatants?oh me oh my what's that quaint word bandied about Collateral damage.If this is freeing people mate.To you and all your ilk they're all terrorist's' towel heads you could'nt give a rat's.They're opposing the mighty USA so like fleas squashed.Ends justify the means? .Right now I,m watching the 6.00 news.The leading story is your CIA and/or other organizations flying prisoners to other countries just to torture them.Out of sight out of mind.That must sit quite well with you because the impression you give' in your comments is that you care so very deeply for the Iraqi people.Even if you have absolutely no proof of guilt but they must all be tortured just for good measure.By the way I can't find to many coconut trees in New Zealand you would have to be simple to think so .Or do I need to take one of your special sight-seeing flights to re-adjust my view because if I'm not with you I must be against you?
Posted by: freedom at December 04, 2005 11:23 PM (O2l+4)
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I meant in Samoa - you do keep in touch with the boys back home now, don't you? So how's the coconuts?
Must be tough being a stranger in a no so strange land. If anti-Americanism makes you feel better about your place in the world (or lack of) then go for it.
Posted by: hondo at December 04, 2005 11:37 PM (3aakz)
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hondo don't get excited. I thought we were all entitled to our views but you seem to be quite preoccupied with how coconut crops are growing in Samoa.Dude if you like coconuts so much There,s American Samoa another one of your victories".You could perhaps holiday there one day.Come over to the the Western side.Meet the boys y'know experience the culture, live a little.I've been there on holiday sun, sand, surf, no towelheads to get your blood pressure up you would love it mate. I know living downunder in a backwater, slow-as country like New Zealand wer'e not quite up to your speed with your lot.I mean heres silly ol me thinking I have a right to an opinion.I should tow the line and think exactly whatever you think I should think.Jeez sort of reminds me of one thing us living the land of the long white cloud. Aotearoa. are famous or .SHEEP!!!!!
Posted by: freedom at December 05, 2005 12:03 AM (O2l+4)
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Agent Smith and Jones concur that "Freedom" is an Iraqi Operation.
Agent Brown disagrees and says it is a parallellogram full of lies and distortions.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 05, 2005 05:39 AM (qLtuI)
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I wouldn't even waste my time on this "freedom" person. He/she is far too bitter and unreasonable.
Posted by: Oyster at December 05, 2005 06:08 AM (YudAC)
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Talofa Freedom,
I would suggest you stop believing Baathist propaganda. Like most oil-rich countries, Iraq has always been a shithole incapable of spreading wealth.
Posted by: Macktastick Rusty Wicked at December 05, 2005 08:56 AM (JQjhA)
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freedom,
Go to school, learn some English, read some history, and come back here in a few years and maybe I will know what the hell you are talking about, because dude, you aren't making a bit of sense to me. Might be your broken English, and I don't have a clue where I can learn Samoan.(Is that your language?)
Posted by: jihadibane at December 05, 2005 09:02 AM (rUyw4)
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The Japanese sub thing is more fictional than any of your claims. Pearl Harbor was not about that, even the most biased Japanese historian would agree. You are a mixed up dude freedom...and the first pro-jihadist Samoan I have ever come across. If you don't think fighting for your nation is admirable then go away...I bet you've never put your ass on the line for anything other than to vent anger from your safe little haven.
Posted by: Jester at December 05, 2005 01:15 PM (wBDaS)
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Freedom: Stupid name for a banana eating monkey looking piece of shit who doesn't deserve to know the english language. Back in your tree monkey. You're not ready to climb down yet. And get that stupid bone out of your nose.
Posted by: greyrooster at December 05, 2005 06:16 PM (9Dlss)
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i cant wait for the day, that people wake up and deport all muslim/arab scum from europe/usa.
i honestly wipe my arse on the koran every morning. a couple of pages get your shitty ring just as clean as toilet paper.
boycott the arab owned shops and businesses.
Posted by: london defense force at December 06, 2005 02:59 PM (B4Ge0)
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LDF...thanks for reminding me, I've just run out of toilet paper, time to visit the mosque for more supplies.
Posted by: Jester at December 06, 2005 03:27 PM (wBDaS)
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Well, I guess no more from the cannibal calling himself FREEDOM. Backward white hating piece of shit headhunter just out of the trees. Or not quite out of the trees. I can see him now. Bone in nose, sticks in his ears walking through the jungle chewing on a bone that used to be his neighbors arm. Washing it down with raw fish eyes and raw half hatched eggs. Friggin big mouthed animal.
Posted by: greyrooster at December 07, 2005 04:45 AM (OvTKg)
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Must say, just came across this site, but HAD to comment here. What amazes me most is that both the both the pro-islamist and the pro-american seemed to think that propaganda only emerges from the other side. Truth is, the DOD has a really tight hold on what information gets fed to the civilian news services . The BBC has done a somewhat better job of genuinse newsgathering, but the american press seems content to act like farm swine willing to take whatever scraps are tossed their way, be they liberal, or conservative. The US army's Psych-Op are doing a bang up job of media spinning a sows ear into a silk purse. The loose affiliation of competing iraqui islamic factions, for the most part also try and dedicate time and resources to dissimate disinformation but have fairly crude methods in my estimation. What i've seen seems to be political fanatics with axes to grind posting, instead of any reasoned analysis overall. That said, and despite all the cows manure being flung over the newswire, Iraq has not been a stable reigion for over half a millenia. Iraq, geographically, has several native/ethnic populations whom only stop fighting each other if they share a joint enemy, or dictator in common. The country is a toilet bowl, and personally i will be shocked to see anything more than perhaps a decade worth of secular democracy being compromised by Syrian, Iranian, and insurgency splinters into complete meaninglessness. There is a few hard facts that seem to escape people on all sides of this debate i've seen publically speculate here...
A) Saddamn Hussain, and Osama Bin Laden were both used extensivly and to great effect by US intellegence services who should have scrubbed their running dogs when they decommissioned them. Bush Sr should have ordered the shot back in 91, and established a resonably secure, permanent base at the time. Instead, now TWO generations of Bush's have done nothing but create a situation where the US will be forced to return to and implement so called "band aid" solutions.
B) Too much attention is being given to the pathetic, splintered Iraqui insurgency when clearly the forces funding, equipping, and motivating these factions lie beyond it's borders. Notably Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
C) If the west would wean itself off of damned foreign fossil fuels, we could isolate this little crap-hole in Hell and let them busily kill each other until they grew out of political and religious despotism.
Posted by: Entropolis at December 20, 2005 03:45 AM (sS7+z)
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i have bought myself a mountain and i am going to dig myself a bunker.
the end is near!
Posted by: billy the web designer at March 19, 2006 06:19 PM (jjv4x)
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UPDATE: The video has been debunked and is NOT the Fallujah attack but some other attack. See this post.
