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This is the thread where we post little exasperating crazinesses about the war. Things that make us go arrgh, how can people be so ignorant/dumb/over pc or just plain silly.

So for starters

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29855.html

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Idiotic network talking head interviewing a US military spokesman:
"So would you say that good intelligence reports are helpful to planning?"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Also the general on the radio this morning who described the iraqi campaign as Blitz warfare as if he'd just come up with it. (I think he derived it from the 'british' word for the WW2 bombings).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_684588.html?menu=

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that Anna Nicole?

did we all hear about today's special Paris edition of The Scum?

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

No... do tell. Does it involve a front page screaming YOU ARE ALL NAZI-APPEASING CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER-MONKEYS WHO WANT TO MAKE OUR BRITISH ORANGES BLUE!!!, perchance?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

worse.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The front page featured pictures of Mr Chirac and Saddam side by side. The accompanying text read: "Cherchez la difference [spot the difference]. One is a corrupt bully who is risking the lives of our troops. He is sneering at Britain, destroying democracy and endangering world peace. The other is Saddam Hussein."

Hey, we got that one too (in English)! Maybe there's just an export-strength Sun.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's all go and tar and feather rebbekah wade and run her out of town.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you sure? Can't be any fun being a beard for Ross K3mp so I reckon she's getting just desserts.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

MTV just showed a segment of protesters in Union Square Park in NYC. One kid holds a placcard that reads: "Only Love Can Defeat Hate!"

Gosh, thanks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Cletus, we ain't had no good tarrin' an featherin round these parts for nigh on forty years.

suzy, please don't put such thought in my mind.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ed, a beard is a woman who escorts/marries a prominent gay man to make him appear 'straight'. Oh wait, were you thinking something *really* gross?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I was.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

mental images I never wanted #473: rebekah and gwaaant doing the nastee

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked saddam calling bush a midget.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

What next - Bush makes disparaging comments about size of Saddam's veiny love-scud?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

He hasn't already?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I cut one out of the paper just for you and some of my other net friends. This is from yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times:

"I hope we finish the job this time", said Dan Shanahan, 71, of Carlsbad, Calif., who was a cryptographer in the Army during the Korean War. "We didn't finish the Korean War. We didn't finish the Vietnam War. We didn't finish Desert Storm."

He doesn't worry about American's standing internationally, noting the no one liked Alexander the Great, the Romans or the British when they ruled the world. "We can't please the world, and I don't think we should go to all these little African countries and ask their permission," he said, reflecting some long-simmering U.S. attitudes toward the United Nations.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 21 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mental images I never wanted #474: Saddam's veiny love-scud

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 21 March 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Rumsfeld: No war in history has ever featured a Defense Secretary with such precision-guided hair. No civilians or reporters were hurt in the making of this hair. We would never lie to you unless we would.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

US troops on iraqi tv: a 'flagrant breach of the geneva convention'
there rae pictures of iraqi prisoners splashed across all the papers today.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard this criticized on NPR this morning Ed. They seemed to blame the over-eagerness of the "embedded" journalists.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

'Its outrageous that the iraqis have placed their guns in the centre of Basra' which they are defending.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

'In the areas where we, the british forces, are shaping the future'

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Optimus Prime is out there kicking Saddam's arse right now...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeremy Bowen on the news the other night:

"Well as an iraq expert (I have been there you see) I can tell you that people are going to feeling pretty scared and kids might be having nightmares."

"But also let me say that with these weapons, if civilians get killed it's not because they've hit the wrong target, it's because they've made a mistake."

(I paraphrase, but not much.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"General Renuart says "terrorist-like" cells are responsible for the resistance in Basra." - BBC

How dare those terrorist Iraqis hide in the cities and not come out and fight like real men!

(meanwhile the US drops hundreds of cruises missiles on Baghdad from a very safe distance.)

(ohand the word "terrorist" has lost all meaning now).

Also the hilarious, onion-like headline from the english al-jeezera site:

"U.S. Remembers Geneva Convention"

http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=989&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258

― fletrejet, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"U.S. Remembers Geneva Convention"

It was a good time, we got drunk, woke up with a very naked France!

― U.S., Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Today's IF in the guardian was a strip featuring Saddam and his generals announcing his new tactics, "We will cynically place civilians in our cities"

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://while1.net/~jeremy/

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Idiotic conservative fundi-christian group Focus On The Family is worried sick that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is going to giving out condoms to bombed-out Iraqi citizens in the post-invasion rebuilding

Quoting from http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0025243.html

Steve Mosher, head of the Population Research Institute, is especially wary of USAID and its liberal approach towards the issues of condom use and abortion. "As soon as the dust settles after the conflict, (USAID will) be sending in the condom pushers and the sex educators," Mosher said. "There is the view at USAID that we need to remake these societies in the image of Hollywood or in the image of Manhattan. (That) we need to attack the patriarchal family."

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

On the BBC at 4.15 in the afternoon, just as the kiddies would be getting home from school, they showed some new footage of soldiers looking for weapons in a house, complete with audio.

At one point a soldier was very loudly heard to say -

"Fucking hell! I thought I was going to get fucking shot then!"

Cue the newsreader hastily talking over the rest of the report. Absolutely hilarious.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god I nearly swallowed my tongue:

[Mr Blair] said Iraqis would not "rise up" until they knew the "thin, but strong membrane" around the Iraqi leader had been destroyed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2894207.stm

Like, is Saddam wearing an enormous condom and the Iraqui people will not get a stiffy until he takes it off? I swear Blair is on crack.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Feel free to add something more about veiny love-scuds. Eehurrgh.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

It's to protect Saddam from weapons of mass erection.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

he fears a slug missile.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Today's Soaraway Currant Bun.

PROOF!

They find ricin in an Ansar al Islam camp and the bun see this as proof that Saddam has been in league with terrorists in finsbury park all along, they publish a picture of Captain Hook/Sheikh Abu Hamza to 'prove' the point.

Who wants to come and help me shove Rebbekah Wade's head up Paul Dacre's arse and vice versa.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

For about the hundredth time the US army is 'about to engage the Medina division of the republican guard'.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

But they've only been dating for a week!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 31 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pixunlimited.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2003/03/28/0328bell512.jpg

not balls but funny anyway.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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