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2004-06-14 Iraq-Jordan

Another Baghdad car bomb causes heavy casualties

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Posted by .com 2004-06-14 5:07:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 desperate to stop the transition eh?

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-14 8:22:05 AM|| 2004-06-14 8:22:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It occurs to me that it might be useful to start arresting the "protesters" en mass that pop up at these bombing sites. I'm almost positive that some of the bombers' associates are sparking these "protests".

But for the love of god, ease off on the goddamn dogs.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-06-14 9:43:18 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-14 9:43:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think you are right their Mitch. Notice how the crowd just happened to have an American Flag to burn for the cameras?

Posted by TomAnon 2004-06-14 10:00:38 AM|| 2004-06-14 10:00:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The bloodlust of the witnesses surely rivals that of Caligula. Again and again we are reminded that many people of Iraq revel in the kind of bloodbaths Western cultures discarded decades ago. And yet our wonderful men and women remain there, risking their lives on bridges, in doorways, at the gates of hell, to help DIMINISH suffering.

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-14 10:04:12 AM|| 2004-06-14 10:04:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mitch, Jules,... good point!

Posted by B 2004-06-14 10:22:29 AM|| 2004-06-14 10:22:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Angry Iraqis shouted slogans against Americans and setting fire to an American flag."

TomAnon says: "Notice how the crowd just happened to have an American Flag to burn for the cameras?"

Yeah. Funny that. But didn't you know that ALL Iraqis carry American flags in their back pockets?
It's a current fad over there--because they love us so much.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-06-14 11:00:01 AM|| 2004-06-14 11:00:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 How come our side has no good slogans? I fear we are in the middle of a slogan gap. We need to place blame... can't anyone here chant?

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-14 12:43:49 PM|| 2004-06-14 12:43:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait a second... I remember an oldie.

Two! Four! Six! Eight!
Mr. Spectre please align
on the powerplant at 10 o'clock.
10! 12! 14! 16!

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-14 12:47:16 PM|| 2004-06-14 12:47:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Again and again we are reminded that many people of Iraq revel in the kind of bloodbaths Western cultures discarded decades ago. And yet our wonderful men and women remain there, risking their lives on bridges, in doorways, at the gates of hell, to help DIMINISH suffering.

Those Iraqis have no idea what kind of suffering (theirs, mostly) would be in the offing if we got mad enough. I'm thinking in terms of a napalm canister dropped right into the middle of those anti-American demonstrations that appear right after foreigners are killed.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-14 2:17:27 PM|| 2004-06-14 2:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 my vote is for that "whiskey, sexy (something)" sign the iraqi held as our slogan. Note how I only remembered two of those for some reason...

Posted by flash91 2004-06-14 3:04:11 PM|| 2004-06-14 3:04:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy per http://www.greatestjeneration.com/. She kept it as a slogan for the new Iraqi flag.

Posted by Anonymous5217 2004-06-14 3:47:18 PM|| 2004-06-14 3:47:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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