4/9/2003: Iraqis protest

As the Iraqi war argument has gone on and on, there is one group of people that hasn't been polled by anyone: the Iraqis.

Today may go, in history, as the day Iraq was liberated - or, unlawfully invaded and toppled, depending on your point of view. But to give some perspective, today IS, by anyone's thinking, the first day that Iraqis themselves could say anything at all against the administration that has ruled them for decades. And they chose to ride the head of Saddam through the streets of Baghdad, hauling it with the chain that brought it down, and whapping it with sticks, shoes, poles, anything they could find.

And they chose to bring us this message.

I would normally shout out "Photoshop!" here due to the rather serious inconsistency between the obviously hand-scrawled portion and the nicely lettered (save for the large spacing gap) portion...but I refuse to believe that our benevolent dictator would stoop to such a low for this esteemed and reverentially observed forum.

So...where *did* you get this image, UT? And are they referring to all of us US types as wankers, or just the human shield portion of our population?

Are the Iraqis not happy with the US in general, or the human shields, who were going to stand in front of hospitals and neighborhoods, but were moved to power stations and the like?

Amusing Anecdote: So I'm telling cute Australian girl how to set her proxy settings, and I'm ready to give her the service request number:"Okay, the SR number is 349 W as in Whiskey, Y as in Wanky..." We both ROTFLMAO'ed for about 3 minutes straight. I meant to say Y as in Yankee.

Where it came from: oh! sorry! I should have attributed it originally. Donald Sensing is screen-capturing them, apparently, and it's from his blog.

And he has another image to show it's not a PS. It looks like somebody tore the original sign in half, which maybe said "welcome" or something, and then they just added their bit.

(First time poster - long time lurker)
My 1st reaction to this image was one of suprise. Then I realised that if I were in the Iraqis position I would harbor some pretty hostile feelings towards people who are putting themselves in the line of fire to try and prevent a war movement that will inevitably liberate me and my people. These "human shields" just decided that they didn't think war was the right answer but they offered no alternative, just chose to stick their noses in where they were not wanted. Some may call them noble, and honerable but I personally reckon they were just caught up in the anti-war protests and the 'righteousness' of it all. They thought "war is wrong - now i'm gonna do something about it" I don't think they really understood what the Iraqi people wanted, nor did they care.

I'm thinking maybe this is the biggest piece of anything these clowns can find to write on and mightn't have had the necessaries to remove the original 'human shield' lettering.
ps UT who the hell put 'rapscallion 'in my profile?

Well this is the thing, if the Iraqis truely want the US to invade (which we won't really know for months) then who are a bunch of middle class left wing bleedings hearts who oppose all war on principle to say it's not 'right'.

novice, your user title is changed throughout your first posts and will become more stable as your post number increases. You can manually edit it as well, by going to "user cp" at the top and then clicking on "profile".

Perhaps the problem with the Philosophy section is that philosophy is involved in nearly everything we do.

it underpins it, and provides the framework, but seldom with much forethought or intention. Still a good exercise to exorcise the presuppositions.

Especially if someone has the stones to pick up the guantlet and try to give a rational defense for moral relativism. That's just fun for the pickin.

-sm

The parents aren't evil or good, just stupid..

everyone *knows* that for teeth related illnesses you should use doc leaves not tea leaves.......

I just feel sorry for Johnny, had his gums not been so inflamed they might have used the correct foliage and this tragedy could have been overted..... I blame the government for blatent anti-doc-leaf actions.. It's leafist it is!

Oh sure ...blame the goverment for all ills.
How do you know it wasn't the leaf cartel?

Sssshhh......

don't mention the cartel they listen to our thoughts.....

I believe you mean 'averted' instead of 'overted'.

The tragedy was actually "overted". Remember Johnny's life-threateneing overbite??