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**Seeker** · February 1, 2003, 22:57

Saddam sure is a bastard.

**Drake Tungsten** · February 2, 2003, 01:05

Argue the point with Reuters

He was being cynical.

Sarcastic, actually, but close enough.

**cinch** · February 2, 2003, 01:29

I don't get it... The article says that a car mechanic and a government employee in Iraq were both happy about the Columbia tragedy. It said nothing about Saddam or an official gov't statement saying that...

I'm not defending Saddam here, or saying that he was broken up over Columbia, but I just don't get how that article translates to the Iraqi government saying they're happy about it.

Is there another, more detailed article I don't know about?

**Urban Ranger** · February 2, 2003, 01:54

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
This world is ram-jam-packed full of arseholes, and if you go looking for them, you'll find them- and they'll probably be doing something monumentally crass.

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**Urban Ranger** · February 2, 2003, 02:02

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Man, the Iraqi government is dumb.

Hm, the Iraqi government didn't say anything in the Reuter's article. It could be a popular reaction, but since only like three people were quoted and nobody knows exactly what "popular" is, it's all very vague now.

**Panag** · February 2, 2003, 12:47

hi ,

an act of allah , ....

may the two evil races be punished , ....

iraqi delegate to yasser , .....

cnn teletekst

have a nice day

**MrFun** · February 2, 2003, 18:40

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
That's not what you're getting angry over. You yourself said you are angry over a presumption that some Palestinians were celebrating based on an as-yet unsubstantiated rumor. You then justified this presumption based on "past behavior" of Palestinians, which is 100% meaningless for proving the rumor true in this case.

You're being hypocritical because you are using a stereotype to justify anger over an occurence that is, as far as we know, fictional. That's no different than a, say, fundamentalist Christian homophobe painting gays as deviant perverts based on his "past experience" with some gays.

How about you indulging in some stereotpying of your own here thats feeding a racist rumor that isn't even shown to be true yet?

Ok -- I admit I was presumptuous in the heat of emotion and of the moment. The presumption was not based on any prejudice -- it was based on past times, when Palestinian extremists have celebrated over such tragedies.

And, I did not cater towards racism -- a couple of times already, I have pointed out that my anger is directed towards Palestinian extremists -- not all Palestinians, as an ethnic group.

**Kingof the Apes** · February 2, 2003, 20:58

I believe it's logical to think terrorists celebrated this. Thats not racist at all.

**The Mad Monk** · February 2, 2003, 22:15

So let me get this straight...

We kick Saddam's ass twelve years ago, encourage revolt, screw down tight with sanctions, destroy any radar installation dumb enough to lock onto one of our planes, send inspectors in to disarm them, call them liars, threaten them with war, etc., etc., etc., and all Saddam's 'God' can do by way of DIVINE RETRIBUTION is plink a twenty-two year old spacecraft?

Well...what can I say to that, except...

BRING IT ON, GOD, BRING IT ON!!!

**MrFun** · February 3, 2003, 00:05

Well, since my irrational temper has passed for some time now, this thread can be closed.

**Ming** · February 3, 2003, 00:08

Originally posted by MrFun
Well, since my irrational temper has passed for some time now, this thread can be closed.

Done...

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