Qaeda Leader Beheads U.S. Civilian in Iraq

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Who is disciplining Al Qaeda members, other than coalition efforts?
Who is court martialing them?
No one? Well ****merunning. Hard to believe.

Newsflash: Al Qaeda members are terrorists and murderers by nature. It's their whole purpose. The only "discipline" for them is to be hunted down and killed.

Now compare them, to, say, the random four year old Iraqi kid, or 70 year old Iraqi grandma? What to do with them?

"Nits make lice."* Maybe we should try out that approach again?


* Historical trivia prize for anyone who knows where that quote came from (without googling it ).

[SlowwHand]

And what I'm saying is what I've said all along; if terrorists are making it hard on them, make a decision.
If it's made, live with it.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Had something to do with the Indian wars.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
And what I'm saying is what I've said all along; if terrorists are making it hard on them, make a decision.
If it's made, live with it.

Ah, so the average Iraqi civilian that has never seen these (non-Iraqi) AQ members, who knows nothing about them, should be exterminated because some other Iraqi, somewhere, is most likely helping them.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Newsflash: Al Qaeda members are terrorists and murderers by nature. It's their whole purpose. The only "discipline" for them is to be hunted down and killed.

Now compare them, to, say, the random four year old Iraqi kid, or 70 year old Iraqi grandma? What to do with them?

"Nits make lice."* Maybe we should try out that approach again?


* Historical trivia prize for anyone who knows where that quote came from (without googling it ).

Without Googling -- "Nits make lice" was stated by a murderer of a child of a Mormon family in the 1840s or 1850s. Forgot where, exactly though.

[Japher]

Ah, so the average Iraqi civilian that has never seen these (non-Iraqi) AQ members, who knows nothing about them, should be exterminated because some other Iraqi, somewhere, is most likely helping them.

No. Nor should they be exterminated by their leader for believing or having a different faith... Something that happens when such religious extremist get control over a country, damn theists.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Had something to do with the Indian wars.

Yep. From the testimony in the court-martial of Lt. Col. John Chivington over the Sand Creek massacre. Chivington had ordered that no prisoners be taken, and some of his men had taken Indian infants "prisoner" rather than kill them as ordered. "Nits make lice" was Chivington's confirmation of his order to kill them, whereupon they were placed on the ground and shot.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Now the Iraqis have gone off the deep end only to piss off Americans even more

Yep, cuz everyone knows that all Arabs and Muslims are Iraqis. Zaqarwi is a Jordanian, not an Iraqi. We don't know what nationality the rest of those people were, only that they were associated with AQ. Most of the members of AQ are Saudis. But go ahead and blame the Iraqis.

I heard on NPR this morning that many Iraqis are shocked and outraged by this murder. But let's not let a little reality interfer with our sterotypes and hate on.

KILL 'EM ALL!

[MrFun]

To be fair, I think Jimmy was using the word "Iraqis" in referring to the terrorists who murdered this American. But yeah, he should have clarified by including the word "terrorist" with "Iraqi." I think he just did a slip, that's all.

Even if he was mistakened about their nationality, I doubt Jimmy was blaming all Iraqis for this.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Interesting point though, we tend to dismiss atrocities committed by our side and demonise atrocities committed by the other side. That's why Indian savages massacred whites and whites defeated Indians in battles that were in fact massacres. That's the basis for racism too... A white guy murders a white or black person and no white person thinks white people are bad because of that crime, but if a black man murders a white person, then that's evidence for indicting black people (change the colors around, no difference).

Who are you and what have you done with Berzerker!?!

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat

"Nits make lice."* Maybe we should try out that approach again?


* Historical trivia prize for anyone who knows where that quote came from (without googling it ).

hmm seems like i heard that quote first on a mini series called Centennial way back in the day. Can't remember what officer said it in real life

[MrFun]

Sprayber -- I already gave the answer.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by MrFun
Sprayber -- I already gave the answer.

Where to the mormons come into it?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
How about this? State the objective, and get the hell out of their way.

Could you tell that to Bush?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by MrFun
Sprayber -- I already gave the answer.

Apparently the wrong one unless the Indians converted to Mormonity

Tass are there any Indians in your church?