Somebody Tell Lt. Brandon Turner That He's Insane
John (reposted from utss) | 14.11.2004 09:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World
This from the Los Angeles Times:
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"We've got chunks of territory, but these guys (insurgents) are all over the place," Marine Lt. Brandon Turner said Thursday as he stood amid shattered glass and concrete under the green dome of Al Kalfa mosque, his fellow Marines resting on a plush red carpet.
"They just keep coming at us."
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Somebody please tell Lt. Brandon Turner that he's insane, that the Pentagon is insane, whoever is allowing the marines or any American soldiers "rest" on that "plush red carpet" with their shoes, uniforms and machines guns is insane. Does anyone understand anything about religious feelings in general or about Islam in particular? Have they spent even half a day watching a documentary or two about Islam and noticed that people carefully and respectfully take their shoes off before entering a mosque, where they will kneel and put their head on that carpet?
(Those "plush red carpets", by the way, are prayer rugs, or"sajjade."
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And you don't step on them with your combat boots, especially inside a mosque, and smile for the cameras unless you really want to fight to the death with up to a billion people.)
Seriously, this is either the most arrogant, incompetent, ignorant occupation, ever, or the most clever, insidious, skillful effort towards bringing about an apocalyptic world war. Are they asleep at the wheel, drowning under their own ignorance, or simply want to end life on earth as we know it?
John (reposted from utss)
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They've learned from the Israeli masters
14.11.2004 21:12
Why do you suppose the American occupying forces should be any different? They certainly don't know more than their Israeli partners in crimes against humanity. It is premditated arrogance. Period.
Anonyme
Religion is nonsense
14.11.2004 23:15
Stamping or even shitting on that carpet means NOTHING in the vast scale of things.
We need freedom FROM religion, not freedom OF religion. RELIGION IS FILTH.
Vorstuc
swept up in the tide
15.11.2004 13:56
alas
America is fucking insane
17.11.2004 07:26
Independent journalist Dahir Jamil reporting from Baghdad says that footage is now being watched by the Arab world....
worse than Abu Ghraib he says...
Imagine if this was taking place in the Crystal Cathedral in sunny California?
Wounded American patriots... oh, I mean "anti-American" forces... are shot dead by the liberators..... inside the church... oh yeah....
Democracy is on the march....
Death to America.... oh, fuck it, it's dying on it's own.... it'll all be over soon
Tea and cookies for all....
(Crabcakes for auntie Condoleezza)
PKJ