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Iraq
Derbyshire's "brief moment of jubilation"
2003-04-08
Yeah. It ain't over until it's over — but at this point it's almost over...
You've lost the war, and we're not in much of a mood to accommodate your delusional fantasies. You — the Arabs. "This is what all Arabs want to see." That's the shape of it in your mind, isn't it? You were at one with Saddam Hussein, weren't you? — poison gas, secret police, torture chambers, rapist sons, wars of invasion (Iran, Kuwait), and all. He was a son of a bitch, but he was your son of a bitch, wasn't he? It was the Arabs versus the Crusaders and the Jews, wasn't it? But look: As always in every modern engagement, the Arabs have lost. Lost big: We don't know the body count yet, but it's at least 100 to 1, and quite possibly 1,000 to 1. The wisdom of the late Moshe Dayan has been borne out yet again. Asked to reveal his recipe for winning wars, Dayan replied with a soldier's crisp brevity: "Fight Arabs."
There's still mopping up do do. We haven't taken our last casualties yet, and won't for awhile. Maybe we still have to catch Sammy, and if not we still have to catch Izzat Ibrahim ("I dunno. Izzat him?") and hang him. We have to root out the Baathist die-hards, and catch as many of the Paleokillers — Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and sundry others — who were imported for the fight as we can. They should be killed, rather than being repatriated, but we know they won't be. But Sammy's Iraq is essentially done, and now we're working in Occupied Iraq. So I'd say it's now permissible to pause to ululate for a few brief moments, and to vent methane in the general direction of Mecca, before moving on to the next task...

Thanks to Kathy for the link...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  Oh I'm ululating alright, and I'm having gun sex too.

But I leave the methane to Ptah, who seems to be a bit gassy today, what with the elderberries.

I would love it for a missile to accidentally stray and hit that big ugly cube thing in Mecca: couldn't we blame it on the last gasp of the Republican Guard?
Posted by: anon1   2003-04-08 23:46:35  

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