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2003-04-07 Middle East
Arabs Appalled by U.S. Troops in Baghdad
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-07 01:03 pm|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The best thing that can happen is for these clowns to get pelted and assaulted by free Iraqis when they try to cross into Iraq. Let the people who've suffered under Saddam for three decades tell these morons just how they feel about their ignorant jihad to put him back in power.

Failing that, they can just get gunned down like the rest of Saddam's filth.
Posted by Dar Steckelberg  4/7/2003 1:27:28 PM||   4/7/2003 1:27:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ""The Americans can never stay in Baghdad," Mohammed said. "Baghdad is noble Arab land.""


No. Baghdad is noble IRAQI land!!! Saddam, despite some pseuso-Mesopotamian propaganda, remianed, true to Baathis ideology, an Arab nationalist, not an Iraqi nationalist, putting pan-arab goals ahead of the welfare of the Iraqi people. The iraqi people, in welcoming coalition forces, are showing that THEY are putting Iraq FIRST, and are turning from pan-Arabism, which has been a disaster for them even more than for the rest of the Arab world. The rest of the arab world, still mired in pan-Arabism, senses this "betrayal" and is outraged by it.
Posted by liberalhawk 4/7/2003 1:40:49 PM||   4/7/2003 1:40:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The fatalistic foaming-at-the-mouth Arabs mobs have nothing to complain about. If Allah didn't want Iraq to get spanked it wouldn't be happening.

They thought the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia was Allah's retribution for America's misdeeds. Considering that there isn't an Arab country that can make so much as a bicycle without foreign help -- let alone a spacecraft -- they should be asking themselves why Allah is punishing them instead of worrying about what America is doing to 'noble Arab land.' Idiots all.
Posted by Ned 4/7/2003 1:47:22 PM||   4/7/2003 1:47:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The best thing that can happen is for these clowns to get pelted and assaulted by free Iraqis when they try to cross into Iraq. Let the people who've suffered under Saddam for three decades tell these morons just how they feel about their ignorant jihad to put him back in power.

Failing that, they can just get gunned down like the rest of Saddam's filth.
Posted by Dar Steckelberg  2003-04-07 13:27:28||   2003-04-07 13:27:28|| Front Page Top

#5 ""The Americans can never stay in Baghdad," Mohammed said. "Baghdad is noble Arab land.""


No. Baghdad is noble IRAQI land!!! Saddam, despite some pseuso-Mesopotamian propaganda, remianed, true to Baathis ideology, an Arab nationalist, not an Iraqi nationalist, putting pan-arab goals ahead of the welfare of the Iraqi people. The iraqi people, in welcoming coalition forces, are showing that THEY are putting Iraq FIRST, and are turning from pan-Arabism, which has been a disaster for them even more than for the rest of the Arab world. The rest of the arab world, still mired in pan-Arabism, senses this "betrayal" and is outraged by it.
Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-07 13:40:49||   2003-04-07 13:40:49|| Front Page Top

#6 The fatalistic foaming-at-the-mouth Arabs mobs have nothing to complain about. If Allah didn't want Iraq to get spanked it wouldn't be happening.

They thought the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia was Allah's retribution for America's misdeeds. Considering that there isn't an Arab country that can make so much as a bicycle without foreign help -- let alone a spacecraft -- they should be asking themselves why Allah is punishing them instead of worrying about what America is doing to 'noble Arab land.' Idiots all.
Posted by Ned 2003-04-07 13:47:22||   2003-04-07 13:47:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Darned good point.

Instead of screaming about us, those arab folk really ought to be asking theselves why Allah hates them.
Posted by Michael 2003-04-07 14:00:19||   2003-04-07 14:00:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, they should be asking themselves if the Koran is valid at all if Muslims are losing wars. After all, Mohammed claimed divine status which was confirmed by victories in the battlefield.

Arabs lose => Koran False.
Posted by Ptah  2003-04-07 14:15:26|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2003-04-07 14:15:26|| Front Page Top

#9 They only buy that "allah's will" stuff when it suits 'em. And interpreting "allah's will" for the great unwashed is a real cozy gig for the clerics, ain't it?
Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-07 14:26:15||   2003-04-07 14:26:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Cut 'em a break. They've deluded themselves and each other for so long that reality is a shock. As we've seen, it's getting harder and harder for Ministers of Disinformation to spin their stories -- the translators are starting to laugh too loud.
Posted by Tom 2003-04-07 14:40:16||   2003-04-07 14:40:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Why are "Arabs throughout the middle east" upset. According to the Iraqi Information Ministry we are being soundly defeated and are not near to Bahgdad. Which way is it.. I don't think you can have it both ways
Posted by Chuck 2003-04-07 15:18:52||   2003-04-07 15:18:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Of course, Arabs are upset about a non-Muslim state that is conquering a Muslim junk state. Most are Muslims, and believe that their tribal god entity has given them the right to administer his "sovereignty" over the entire world. Not only do this pieces of demographic inertia claim Iraq, they also claim other re-conquered lands, such as Spain (which they call: "Andalusia"). The Arabs have been knocked down another notch, but now they need to be put down further. I would start with liquidating HAMAS, Hezbollah, al-Jihad, Ikhwan Musulum, etc from Arab-Palestine territory, which includes parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. It's time to do some more killing.
Posted by Anonon 2003-04-07 15:24:14||   2003-04-07 15:24:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Arabs have the biggest inferiority complexes on the planet. Their countries suck and they are stuck in the 13th century. That's why we see all this silly posturing. "let's do a jihad!"

(On second thought, after seeing those M1s rolling in Bahgdad)

"Let's have some tea and cigarettes."
Posted by Jonesy 2003-04-07 15:45:12||   2003-04-07 15:45:12|| Front Page Top

#14 The big problem here is that the Arab-Wahabbi-Muslim society is a failed and destructive culture with no features worthy of redeeming it.

The religious emphasis on top-down command from the Imamans to the peasants, echoed in the stong-man governments, is fatally weak. Also the bigoted and violent words in the Koran have given the radicals "cover" to execute inhuman and unjust actions agains their own people and people of the world, especially those with different beleifs. This broken ideaology bans competitors becuase it cannot withstand the competition in the free market of ideas.

Wahabbi Islam is a scourge that is now discredited, and should be swept from the world, along with the fatwa issuing clerics who drive its rabidly xenophobic terroristic ways into the core of their culture.
Posted by OldSpook 2003-04-07 15:59:42||   2003-04-07 15:59:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Why that means it's possible that someday they could roll through Damascus. Or Teheran. Or Tripoli. Or Cairo. Or Beirut. Or Ramallah. Or the Bekka Valley.
Paying attention "Arab Street"? Good...
Posted by tu3031 2003-04-07 16:01:43||   2003-04-07 16:01:43|| Front Page Top

#16 I hope it's not lost on their perceptive Arab minds that we not only stomped Saddam with but a fraction of our forces, we also did it with one hand tied intentionally behind our backs: we've been absolutely obsessive about avoiding civilian casualties and it has cost us time, money, and soldiers' lives.

As "dismayed" as they might be about the Iraqi regime's quick destruction, they ought to ponder just how horrible the consequences will be if they manage to REALLY piss us off.
Posted by Dave D. 2003-04-07 16:18:24||   2003-04-07 16:18:24|| Front Page Top

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