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| San Fran's Pro-Saddam Raimondo Equates US Marines with Amman Terrorists |
| 2005-11-14 |
| Their Terrorism, and Ours Napalm is back in style by Justin Raimondo The War Party is going bonkers That's the San Francisco Clown-boy's reference to Republicans, these days – maybe it's the indictment of Scooter Libby. Or the way the war itself is going – badly. In any case, the war's proponents seem to be in a downward spiral of what can only be described as utter craziness. Why else would this administration – or, at least, the office of the vice president – be openly pushing to exempt the CIA from U.S. laws against torture? America, from the "shining city on a hill" to the dark dungeon of sadistic torturers. What a comedown! Abu Ghraib, we were told, was an "aberration." Now they want to make it a policy. How low can we go? So just after the massacre of Arab women, children, and menfolk at a wedding, Raimondo's first commentary is one that equates us with the Islamist murderers. We're supposed to be spreading "democracy" and "freedom" throughout the Middle East, according to this administration and its Washington amen corner, but how is human liberty advanced by frying Iraqi civilians with incendiary phosphorous bombs [video]? If that isn't a war crime, then nothing is. Check out the whole video, produced by the Italian station RAI, here – and you tell me if we haven't descended into barbarism. It is hard to descend into something that you're already mired in, according to Justa Rastaman's own previous writings. In "Hiroshima Mon Amour", Raimondo called Americans barbarians for the A-Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the subsequent celebrations of those actions that ultimately saved hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of American and Japanese lives. What strikes me about the Italian video occurs in an interview with two American soldiers – witnesses to this horror – in which one of them describes his orders to kill "anything that moves" in the Fallujah free-fire zone. That's what a free-fire zone entails, idiot. What the U.S. government is doing in Iraq is precisely what Milosevic was accused of in Kovoso: targeting a population for near-extermination and dispersal, i.e., "ethnic cleansing." Fallujah, as this video proves, was "cleansed" in a phosphorescent lake of fire. The administration and its supporters continually refer to the insurgents in Iraq as "terrorists" – but if we're using a napalm-like substance to bomb population centers like Fallujah, then what are we? See, we're the terrorists or we're just like them. The warlords of Washington aren't exporting "democracy" – they're exporting terrorism. Not only is this monstrous, it's incredibly stupid: is this how we're trying to build support for "democracy" in the wider Arab world? We might as well keep Karen Hughes at home. The poor woman already has an impossible job – but that video of burnt Iraqi women and children, the skin hanging off their bodies, their melted faces coagulating into a grimace of universal sorrow, makes her a moving target. ... If you can manage to wade through the rest of this mental excrement, then you've got real guts. |
| Posted by:The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen |
| #9 Whatever. 58% of the people in this city are morons. This guy is no exception. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-11-14 19:25 |
| #8 This is what mainstram democrats believe. Talk to one. You will not believe people can be as stupid or ignorant as they are. Pod people. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-11-14 15:06 |
| #7 pshaw. He's not worth the effort. Let him talk. I think he's a great poster child to show the world what a bunch of losers make up the left. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-11-14 13:05 |
| #6 Ditto what mmurray said about nut case boy. |
| Posted by: ScopesMonkey 2005-11-14 12:38 |
| #5 I do believe it is time to fulfill my oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-14 11:55 |
| #4 Hey, it's just one sad sap's rant. And not a very good one. That he gets it published and gets paid for it - more power to him. If these papers want to lose circulation and go out of business because they can't produce quality work, then what do we care? Nobody but the blind believers are listening anyway. Reminds me of one of those guys who stands on a soap box, ranting on about the end of the world. Repent sinners, repent! And hey, you, really stupid guy, give me some money. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-11-14 11:33 |
| #3 The video Raimondo is talking about has been well debunked as bullshit by now. That should be the consentration on arguing against this sort of thing. He believes the strawman but it is a strawman anyway and a strawman that will make its way into the public belief if people give it an inch. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-11-14 10:23 |
| #2 For an excellent look into the dark soul of Raimondo, take a look at this guy's page: Guttersnipe Alley |
| Posted by: Floating Stone 2005-11-14 09:22 |
| #1 Note that the nutjobs leave out an important detail about Fallujah: the US gave civilians a month to clear out of town. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-14 09:18 |