Sinfest

Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8832

Golly aren't I a rainbow of joy and sunshine.

Pentagon Report: Situation Defintely Fucked

Bush Report: Don't Say That, Say 'Encouraging'

Apparently, 1,600 Iraqis died to cold-blooded execution-style slayings in July alone -- civilian casualties due to sectarian conflict have climbed by 51%.

Right now, the biggest deal (the anti-US insurgent coalition entirely aside) is that there is an 'unofficial' war between the Sunni and the Shia. It's the Badr and the Interior Ministry death squads versus the Sunni death squads, and they're slaying each other off as fast as they can possibly manage. It's been described as broaching upon the point of genocidal campaign.

We have gone past talking-point neuralgia; now we're being force-fed an indulgent diet of 'this is not civil war.'

beep

kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2563 Location: Alba Nuadh

Krazy Stixx · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 568

No no no, you have it all wrong. This isn't the "war on terrorism". This is the war on terror. That means being afraid.

Duh.
_________________
"By 3 p.m. I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the world instead."
-Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan

Snorri · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: Stupid president.

I was less afraid before the war.
_________________

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9275 Location: Bellingham, WA

I'm more afraid of my government than terrorists.
_________________
"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11129 Location: Unknown Kaddath

It would probably help a lot if they told us by what standards they considered something to officially be a civil war.

LittlestMorte · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 128

It's only civil war if it happens in the U.S. In every other country it's just a border skirmish.

kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2563 Location: Alba Nuadh

Nonono, it's the birthing pangs of a new democracy!
_________________
bi-chromaticism is the extraordinary belief that there exists only two options
each polar opposite to each other
where one is completely superior to the other.

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9275 Location: Bellingham, WA

Yes... it's anti-democracy insurgents attempting to subvert the will of the Iraqi people!

We've been so blind. Thank God for GWB. Wink

_________________
"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed

it's a civil war if it happens on someone else's watch.

(and i see no reason why cheney can't be impeached at the same time as bush. he's certainly not any _less_ guilty.)
_________________
aka: neverscared!

Marik · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1233

Zero to Photoshop Darth Cheney in less than five minutes

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11129 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Five minutes? Closer to four hours.

Tyr · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 31 Location: New Zealand

The mainstream media in the USA likes to present Bush as Cheney's hand-puppet. In reality, the entire USA government is based on blood money and corporate interests, much of them offshore. This includes the Democrats, who are as ineffectual as the Republicans are dangerous.

Sure, soldiers dying isn't cool, but if it took a fuckup of this proportion to make people understand this, I'm actually thankful for the whole Iraq mess. Reason being that it would take a drooling idiot not to see this now.

DISCLAIMER: Australians are just as dumb, just a bit earlier on the chain to destruction.

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11129 Location: Unknown Kaddath

I've actually heard some people talk about parliamentary governments with pride in the fact that things rarely get done, that way any one radical interest has even less of a chance of pushing something like Prohibition through.

Tyr · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 31 Location: New Zealand

That does not surprise me. Stasis is the mandate of the people, nobody wants to rock the $5-latte boat, so that's what the politicians preach.

Prohibition was a farce initiated by ethnoreligious groups, anyway. They had too much hold on government back then, and they have too much now. All it did in the end was put too much money in the hands of organised criminals.