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| ''God, please kill them all!'' |
| 2002-12-21 |
| Inside the Mother of All Battles mosque, the prayer leader counseled Iraqis to be patient and sought God's help Friday against U.S. forces massing in the Persian Gulf. "Destroy their planes. Burn their tanks. Turn their cannons back upon them," implored Imam Thaer Ibrahim Al-Shomari, a day after the Bush administration declared Iraq in material breach of U.N. resolutions. Ummm... Don't hold your breath, Imam. Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri was at the mosque when 30-year-old Al-Shomari appeared to address the deity on behalf of Saddam Hussein's government. "God, keep our country from the evils of the Americans... Take revenge on them, God. Protect our country from the evils of the British and Jews," the imam prayed. "Oh, especially the Jews!" Leaving the women's section of the Mother of All Battles mosque, Sondos Khaled, a 29-year-old mother of two, voiced support for Saddam. "We are not worried about our children. We worry about President Saddam Hussein. As long as he exists, we exist. If he goes, Iraq will never be the same Iraq," she said. She didn't mention whether that would be a bad thing or a good thing... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 If you read her comment slightly differently, it could almost be a plea; 'As long as he exists, we exist'. Implying that if he ceases to exist, they won't exist either. If you take the viewpoint that he is like Hitler, then losing the war means the Iraqi(German) people let him down, so why shouldn't they perish as being undeserving of him? This then leads to the possibility of using whatever WMDs he has in some orgiastic display of destruction rained down on his own people. I hope not - I don't think the Iraqi people deserve that. |
| Posted by: Tony 2002-12-21 17:50:53 |
| #1 Agreed. Although...divine intervention on the Iraqi's side in the battle may necessitate a call-up of reservists, and while impressive for many reasons, still won't save Saddam's ass |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-12-21 15:57:19 |