Iraqis sure are PATIENT.

[LynnTheDem]

If America were invaded and occupied by a foreign nation on a pile of steaming bullshit pack of lies, 2 million US citizens killed, our doors kicked in and our possessions stolen, our women & kids bound & humiliated, our innocent civilians detained in jails where they were raped, tortured, threatened, killed, our wounded freedom fighters executed while lying unarmed & dying in our churches...would we show the amount of patience Iraqis are showing before we rose up enmass to fight the invaders? I don't think so.

But then, the Iraqis have a very long history of being brutally invaded & occupied for their oil.

[florian]

1. the world just got too sickly absurd to parody

Check out this NEWS:

Iraqi PM charges militants with plan to "destroy Fallujah"

Apparently unaware that Fallujah had just been reduced to rubble already by the American military, US-appointed Prime Minister of Iraqi Iyad Allawi announced today that captured Iraqi militants “were planning to destroy Fallujah…by blowing up important positions.”

http://warcheerleaders.tripod.com/

[Guaranteed]

8. Awesome first post. WELCOME TO DU!!

:)

[izzie]

12. But we only did that so we could re-build it.

The hearts and mind of these people must be with us. Are we not happy to have to re-build the WTC?I do some times wonder what is in the mind of these people who like to blow up things. They all think a 180 off from me. I just never get the point of either side.

[girl gone mad]

13. Yep..

so we can pay Halliburton and Bechtel ten times the fair rate to reconstruct the destroyed buildings.

[eridani]

14. Nice work if you can get it--sort of like--

--the veternarian/taxidermist, where one way or another, you always get your dog back.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi florian!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DeaconBlues]

2. I wish there was some way to put the people of America in the shoes

of the Iraqis for just 24 hours. Since most Americans seem to lack the ability to feel empathy, this is the only way for them to actually understand how much we fucked the Iraqis.

[Skittles]

3. you are correct, Deacon

I am absolutley appalled by the lack of empathy I see for the Iraqi civilians AND our soldiers. One freeptard at work actually told me well, 1000 dead soldiers isn't that many compared to Viet Nam. WTF???? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Let your freeper at work know that IN FACT the US death rate is WORSE

than Vietnam. MORE US ARE DEAD in Iraq than the number who died in the FIRST FIVE YEARS of Vietnam.

Vietnam went for 10 years; Iraq is on month #22.

Gawd I LOATHE ignorant stupid idiotic rightwingnuts!

[DeaconBlues]

5. The rationalization I was hit with was that, compared with the number of

deaths from traffic accidents the deaths in Iraq don't add up to nothing and are no big deal. Of course, this came from a jackass who never spent a day in the service. Support the troops, indeed!

[LynnTheDem]

10. The 2700 deaths on 911 add up to nothing, and are no big deal.

Funny how the freeping rightwingnuts are SOOOO STUPID, SOOOO IRRATIONAL, SOOOO ILLOGICAL, they don't realize that for themselves.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Classic chicken shit response courtesy of Hannity

yep they hate the troops, We know

[Guaranteed]

9. Compared to Vietnam...

I'd say we're right on pace. Tell your co-worker not to worry, he'll get his Vietnam.

[non sociopath skin]

6. I'm planning to read Orwell's 1984 again.

I reckon that G.O. is the only guy who can help me understand this shit.

All together, now, "DOUBLE-THINK, DOUBLE-THINK !!!! ...."

The Skin

[pa28]

7. Interesting twist.

Despite the fact that I consider Bush a usurper I would certainly be in the streets fighting if a foreign power invaded and killed my brother and daughter to "liberate" me.

[dbt]

15. The Vietnamese were rather patient, as well.

I believe they wrote the book on resisting the Colonizers, and a good few Iraqis have read it by now.

:freak:
dbt

[RUDUing2]

16. and when they do become freedom fighters they are called terrorist and

shot to death by american soldiers while lying injured on the floor of a mosque...

BTW I can not do new topic post yet so wanted to add this here...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...018325.stm

French President Jacques Chirac says he is "not at all sure" the world has become safer with the removal from power of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
In a BBC interview Mr Chirac suggests the situation in Iraq has helped to prompt an increase in terrorism.

The interview, to be aired on BBC Two's Newsnight programme on Wednesday, comes ahead of his visit to the UK this week.

President Chirac also maintains that any intervention in Iraq should have been through the United Nations.

"To a certain extent Saddam Hussein's departure was a positive thing, " Mr Chirac says when asked if the world is safer now, as US President George W Bush has repeatedly stated.

"But it also provoked reactions, such as the mobilisation in a number of countries, of men and women of Islam, which has made the world more dangerous," Mr Chirac says.

"There's no doubt that there has been an increase in terrorism and one of the origins of that has been the situation in Iraq.

"I'm not at all sure that one can say that the world is safer," Mr Chirac says.

Return favours

He also signals that be believes Britain's support for the US-led war has brought few dividends.

In an earlier interview with British journalists, Mr Chirac said Prime Minister Tony Blair had received nothing in return for backing the Bush administration.

"I'm not sure it is in the nature of our American friends at the moment to return favours systematically," he said.

"I am not sure, with America as it is these days, that it would be easy for someone, even the British, to be an honest broker."

Mr Chirac said he had urged Mr Blair last year to press President Bush to restart the Middle East peace process in return for British support for the US-led war in Iraq.

Speaking in Washington on Monday, Mr Blair called for Europe and the US to bury their differences over Iraq.

"It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership," he said.

The signs are that Mr Chirac and Mr Blair will again at best agree to disagree on the Iraq war when they meet on Thursday, says BBC World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.

You can see the interview with President Chirac on Newsnight on BBC Two at 2230 GMT on Wednesday 17 November, or watch it on the Newsnight website

[gratuitous]

18. It's their country, they can afford to be patient

Because sooner or later, every bully's attention wanders.