I crawled out of my flotation tank this morning after a long winter's nap, and I was a little disheartened to not find any holiday gift packages on my doorstep. I guess with Bush's economy in the crapper, people just aren't filled with the Winter Solstice spirit this year. But when I got online and saw the now famous video taken at another Bush Baghdad photo op, it was like the early vernal equinox had come early to the Chomstein household.
"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog," Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi shouted in Arabic as he tossed a pair of size 10 Buster Browns at the cowering Shrub. "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq so you could steal our oil and give tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent of Americans!"
Being pelted with shoes is considered a grave insult in Islamic cultures, but in the West only women and effeminate men throw their footwear when they're pissed off about something. So al-Zaidi's courageous outburst struck a chord with Progressives here in the states. The RethugniKKKans can have Joe the Plumber (and all his personal records back, too). At last, WE have a regular human being that WE can identify with, someone who puts a voice to our anger and speaks the words we have longed to be spoken, but that no one would hear. Best of all, he hasn't exploded in a crowded market or sawed someone's head off on the internet yet.
So here's to Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Man of the People. There's a Pulitzer Prize and a job waiting for him at CNN if he ever gets out of Bush's torture chamber.
Leftards - what is it with you and hamas, the castro "government" and every other filthy dictatorship, in your quest for "human rights", peace, justice, or whatever else you assholes lie about wanting achieved?
Posted by: mandible claw | January 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Btw idiots IAF videos normally have compass coordinates displayed. Look at those coordinates on google maps and you'll probably be able to see exactly where the Hamas rockets were being fired from. Hey, ya might even catch the Jooooos out in one of those propaganda lies you're so happy to accuse them of without proof!
Course, that'd require initiative and a minimal amount of intellectual honesty, so I won't hold my breath..
Posted by: mandIDFble claw | January 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
"Tell us, FoE, why YOU think Hamas are lobbing homemade rockets at Israel" -- 24
You mean you don't know?
It's because their founding charter states that the entirety of Israel will be "liberated" for Islam, and that this is to be achieved through jihad.
You seriously don't know this stuff?
Posted by: mandible claw | January 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM
As for kb's idea about arming Hamas with equivalent weapons and letting them and the IDF have at it somewhere neutral.. Sure, why not? There's a virtual ghost town just across from Gaza they could use, if the Israelis shipped the last few civilians out somewhere safe. It'd be hilarious to see a bunch of Hamas thugs stacking helicopters and Merkavas into buildings in Sderot and blowing themselves up. The whole thing'd be over in about half an hour if Hamas didn't have any civilians or UN compounds to hide in, whatever weapons they had. 'Course idiots like kb think that superior conventional weapons provide a greater advantage in modern warfare than do asymmetric tactics like human shields - an assumption that is 100 percent mistaken. So sure, take away Hamas' tools of warfare - children, civilians, NGO facilities, suicide bombs, rocket launchers - and give them some conventional weapons and a battleground where the only hiding places are the ones you make yourself. That is one lefty "solution" to things that I personally would love to see eventuate.. Although the results wouldn't be quite to the left's liking.
Posted by: mandible claw | January 24, 2009 at 11:49 PM
As for kb's idea about arming Hamas with equivalent weapons and letting them and the IDF have at it somewhere neutral.. Sure, why not? There's a virtual ghost town just across from Gaza they could use, if the Israelis shipped the last few civilians out somewhere safe. It'd be hilarious to see a bunch of Hamas thugs stacking helicopters and Merkavas into buildings in Sderot and blowing themselves up. The whole thing'd be over in about half an hour if Hamas didn't have any civilians or UN compounds to hide in, whatever weapons they had. 'Course idiots like kb think that superior conventional weapons provide a greater advantage in modern warfare than do asymmetric tactics like human shields - an assumption that is 100 percent mistaken. So sure, take away Hamas' tools of warfare - children, civilians, NGO facilities, suicide bombs, rocket launchers - and give them some conventional weapons and a battleground where the only hiding places are the ones you make yourself. That is one lefty "solution" to things that I personally would love to see eventuate.. Although the results wouldn't be quite to the left's liking.
Posted by: mandible claw | January 24, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Whoops. I blame Israel's imperialist ambitions and disregard of human rights for that double post and my overuse of scarce intarnet resources.
Posted by: mandible claw | January 25, 2009 at 12:02 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30herbert.html?ref=opinion
Posted by: . | December 30, 2008 at 06:09 PM
Hey, '.', do you think it is cool that the NY Times are going under because of their sagging share price and coercive shareholder structure?
That is sad, isn't it?
Posted by: Mandible Claw | February 22, 2009 at 07:48 AM
Damn, 2 months after I last checked this thread and it's still dead -- did the trolls all faint at the idea of the IDF facing their heroes Hamas on an open battlefield?
Posted by: Mandible Claw | February 22, 2009 at 07:51 AM
Whoops, it's only one month. Oh well. I have been sick for the last one month with a strain of a certain tropical fever that nearly killed me -- and right now I'm typing as I embark on the road to recovery, by mainlining as much beer as is physically possible. Seriously -- the Irish think they know about drinking beer -- hah! I say. Let me know when you can drink an Australian -- even an invalid like myself at present -- under the table, then I'll think about repsecting your Eire-tards.
Posted by: Mandible Claw | February 22, 2009 at 07:56 AM
(Psssst! Don't read the wrong sources - you might get contaminated)
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