"I'd be real happy about millions of bleeding hearts all over the world jerking their knees in unison, ready to cry a fucking ocean over this unbelievably cruel haircut and medical check-up I'm being given. Fucking tools."
A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into non-Cypherpunk levels of triviality.
The original point stands, and is valid. The Islamic world and, in particular, the Arabic part of the Islamic world, are probably going to forget their dislike of Saddam when they see those newreels of the great Dictator being rubbergloved and de-loused. For them it's almost certainly going to resound as a symbol of how we've systematically manipulated and fucked them over all these years. They're not going to respect our "Power", they're not going to care much that WE supported Saddam in the first place. They're just going to get angrier. Look for bin Laden to grow in status until he's just a notch or two below Mohammed. Look then for more bombings and 9/11s here in the US. That Saddam was a cruel, butchering dictator will soon be nearly irrelevant.
-Tyler Durden
From: Anatoly Vorobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention? Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:54:57 +0200
You wrote on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:19:43PM -0500: > Jim Dixon wrote: > > > > >I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and > >getting a haircut. :-| > > > > > > And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and > get a haircut with the whole world watching?
If I had record like Saddam's on me?
Gee, I'd be real happy I wasn't shot on the spot, or maybe cruelly tortured and then shot, the way I'd behaved to people I'd captured. Or maybe torn into pieces by a shrieking mob.
Instead of doing any of that, they check my teeth and give me a haircut in front of the cameras? Boo fucking hoo. I'd be real happy about millions of bleeding hearts all over the world jerking their knees in unison, ready to cry a fucking ocean over this unbelievably cruel haircut and medical check-up I'm being given. Fucking tools.
-- avva
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