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Somebody Tell Lt. Brandon Turner That He's Insane

John (reposted from utss) | 14.11.2004 09:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

Just one small snapshot of US jarhead insanity.




This from the Los Angeles Times:
 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-battle12nov12,0,3089712.story?coll=la-home-headlines

"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."
 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9061221&query=prayer
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)
- Homepage: http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2004/11/somebody_tell_l.html

Comments

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They've learned from the Israeli masters

14.11.2004 21:12

The Israeli occupation forces have been dengrading both Christian and Muslim holy sites for decades now without impunity or regard to international law or sanctity of religious sites.

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

Muslim, Jew, Christian, all these are nonsense religions. All religions are nonsense.
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

Trouble is, you may seek to denounce all religions equally, but when the world's superpower supports one religion and focusses its attacks on another, your voice will just be swept along as part of the anti-Islam chorus, and your comments on Christianity ignored. The real way to dissent right now is to defend the right to be Muslim.

alas


America is fucking insane

17.11.2004 07:26

I know man. As soon as I saw those pictures of the Marines in the Mosque I just about lost my mind. Then comes the video of the Marine murdering a wounded Iraqi in the mosque.

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


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