Horror: Terrorists used mentally disabled women in Baghdad mass homicide
posted at 2:10 pm on February 1, 2008 by Bryan
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There are differing accounts on how many were killed that Baghdad attack today, but CNN reports an unspeakably awful and cruel aspect to the attack: The terrorists use remotely-triggered bomb vests that they had put on mentally disabled women, one of whom suffered from Down Syndrome. They were unwitting and unwilling bomb carriers.
The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popular pet markets on the holiest day of the week for Muslims, authorities said.
In both bombings, the attackers were mentally disabled women whose explosive belts were remotely detonated, Gen. Qasim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad’s security plan, told state television.
An aide to Atta said that people referred to the bomber at central Baghdad’s al-Ghazl market as the “crazy woman” and that the bomber at a second market had an unspecified birth disability.
“Demonic” is right.
“By targeting innocent Iraqis, they show their true demonic character,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman for the Multi-National Division-Baghdad.
“They care nothing for the Iraqi people; they want to subjugate them and forcefully create a greater Islamic sharia state,” he said, referring to Islamic law.
The use of mentally disabled bomb carriers isn’t new; it’s happened before in Iraq. The use of women in these attacks isn’t new either, nor is detonating the bombs against the carrier’s will. In Chechen Jihad, Yousef Bodansky reports on the Beslan massacre in much detail. According to Bodansky, there were several Black Widow terrorists involved, and after an accidental explosion might free hundreds of the child hostages being held inside that school, the Black Widows refused orders from their male counterparts to shoot the fleeing children. The Black Widows were wearing bomb vests, and the male terrorists responded to the refusal to shoot the children by detonating those bomb vests. That of course killed the Widows and everyone near them. I have no sympathy for the Black Widow terrorists, but I bring all of this up to point out the true brutality at work in the jihad. It’s ghastly.
I also bring all of this up in the hope that liberal readers might finally extract their craniums from their backsides and realize that whatever you think of Bush, he’s not the problem. He didn’t start the war and he’s not the cause of the jihad. Animals of the type who would blow up innocent mentally disabled women to kill scores of other innocent people cannot be reasoned with. There’s nothing to talk over with people like that. They live in a state of violent depravity that puts them beyond reason barring some massive change in their own minds. We infidels aren’t going to make that chance by playing nice. We have to defeat them.
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So the Terrorists are using not so smart bombs?
Snake307 on February 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM
That was MY joke. Jihad is what Jihad does.
TroubledMonkey on February 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM
I want John McCain and John McCain’s temper at the Oval Office. I would have no other person directing the global fight against these animals than him.
Baphomet on February 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM
The View is going to be cancelled then?
Darksean on February 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Heckuva post to make stupid, obvious jokes, people.
Bryan on February 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM
If this does not define pure evil I do not know what does.
dentalque on February 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Dude. That’s not funny. I think this is chilling. I weep for those women and the other victims of the bomb attack.
TX Mom on February 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I would accept that except with that temper of his comes his disregard of the rest of conservative ideals. You know, things like lower taxes, free speech, secure boarders, all those little issues.
When he finally realizes that an elected official doesn’t know more about the economy than the people who are working in the economy, then, perhaps I’ll support him.
Snake307 on February 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Animals. Evil would imply they have some capability of moral reasoning. They’re animals. I think I’m going to be sick.
RightOFLeft on February 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM
If we pull out of Iraq they will move in and use their entire population to wage Jihad. 9/11 will look like a test run compared to that.
William Amos on February 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM
But… Code Pink told me that the US Marines are the degenerate animals. Aren’t these just freedom fighters, normal people in abnormal circumstances? If only the Marines stopped eliminating the able-bodied foreign jihadists, these heroic minutemen wouldn’t have to resort to this!
(I use sarcasm to deal with such unspeakable horror.)
Wineaholic on February 1, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Truely the banality of evil
William Amos on February 1, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Yeah, this is incredibly disgusting.
dogsoldier on February 1, 2008 at 2:18 PM
We’ve known that this is what they do for how long? Wasn’t it last year that Hamas told a little boy that if he approached the Israeli soldiers, and pulled the string, candy and presents would burst from his chest? We’ve known that the Terrorists are lying cowards. They specifically target those young enough to be gullible, or impaired enough to be influenced.
If instead of Run Forrest, Run, someone had shouted attack them Forrest, attack, the movie would have been much shorter. It’s a sad truth, that these types who use the dummies are the real bad guys. It’s happening all the time, and the victims are the not so smart bombs. Tacky, yes. But is it true? Yes again.
Snake307 on February 1, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Unless of course we need to use enhanced interrogation techniques on these same people in order to protect American families. In that case John finds it completely inappropriate. Wouldn’t want to make these fine, upstanding citizens uncomfortable, would we?
Agreed. We’re discussing an act of terror by sick@ss jihadists using mentally disabled innocent civilians. Not the place for jokes.
amerpundit on February 1, 2008 at 2:19 PM
We can always submit and it will all go away.
tommylotto on February 1, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Now watch the media spin this attack into a great victory over the surge. The mainstream media encourages and enables these attacks to be ’successful’ to the extent they are. Compare their reporting to Americans hitting civilians by accident and you’ll see what I mean.
Laws of war are for Americans… only.
Beagle on February 1, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Big surprise, islame terrorist are scumbags. Any chance the MSM will pick this up and start showing these inhuman degenerates for what they are? I know let’s try to unnnderstand their feeeeelings.
KILLEM’ALL!
HotAirExpert on February 1, 2008 at 2:20 PM
When I showed my wife this, she was abhorred by it. I said just think, that if elect obama or clinton, these kind of things will happen here in our country because that is how evil and despicable these pigs are……
Charger73 on February 1, 2008 at 2:21 PM
There is some glimmer of hope. The UN today told the Saudis that Sharia law doesnt trumpm an international treaty they signed to protect women’s rights
Saudis told to stuff sharia law
William Amos on February 1, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Snake/troubled
Read DETAILS of Beslan
THEN make infantile, sick jokes.
A**holes.
Janna on February 1, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Yes. They are evil. And they use innocents for their evil purposes. That doesn’t make your joke any better. But I’m glad we can agree that they are evil.
TX Mom on February 1, 2008 at 2:22 PM
This is sadly not surprising. You would think something would be off limits for these whackos, but people will act like whatever they worship.
Grafted on February 1, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Nope, this doesn’t surprise me in the least, nor will it surprise me when liberal loons hear this story and continue to bury their heads in the sand about the nature of our enemies.
4shoes on February 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM
I’m going with Evil. Animals would imply they can opt out of their misdeeds because death, murder, and slaughter is their instinct.
No, these people are evil. They didn’t just happen to strap on highly explosive technology to the unwilling and incapacitated, they did it with the intention to kill, slaughter, and maim as many people as possible.
BKennedy on February 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Disgusting. And I don’t mean this in a flip or derrogatory way but maybe this means regular Iraqi’s are hard to come by for this sort of thing?
Geronimo on February 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM
They wire up women, they wire up children, they wire up the mentally disabled, and they’ve probably wired up pets and animals. All to cause mayhem in the name of their warped view of religion.
These are not civilized people – h3ll, they’re barely human by many definitions.
They’re coming – sooner or later these things will be happening in the US. Regardless of what we do on other aspects of immigration, BORDER SECURITY has to be one of our top priorities.
rockbend on February 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Palis do the same thing in Israel. Sick futhamuckas.
Tony737 on February 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Needs to be ALL CAPS Bold..and repeated, often. Re-enforced with a clue stick.
rockhauler on February 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM
I’ve been mulling this over for the last few days…thinking about that “Grizzly Man” who died (along with his girlfriend) while living with the grizzly bears. It seems like it’s a glaring example of those on the left who believe that if we’re just nice to Islamists, or if they get to know us, or if we feed them, clothe them, give them $, they’ll leave us alone. This Grizzly Man truly believed that he had crossed over some barrier and the bears would be his friend.
I whole-heartedly disagree that those who do something like strap bombs on babies or mentally disabled women are animals. They are humans who’ve made the moral choice to live the evil that they are consumed by, so that’s where my analogy breaks down, but if liberals think that just because they hate GWB that the jihadists won’t cut their heads off, they’re just as deluded as the Grizzly Man was. They don’t recognize danger when they’re exposed to it, and I can only hope that hearing about this will make some of them think twice that America (or GWB, or the American soldier) is the bad guy here.
Sickening…but unfortunately predictable. They value death, and we as a nation, indeed as civilization value life. You can bet that if someone had been tipped off that a mentally disabled person was being wired with a bomb, and one of our soldiers had shot them first, it would be all over Al-Jazeera and every other Islamist website and we would be wholly denounced.
acleaver on February 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM
I need to go read some jokes or something to wash my mind of this horror.
Before I go, I want to say that I hope there IS a hell and that these guys quickly go there.
TeeDee on February 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM
They’ve been doing this for 1300+ years. Anybody who blames Bush or the US is an ignorant, uneducated bozo.
Bad Penny on February 1, 2008 at 2:29 PM
I believe Obama said in the debate last night, he will withdraw U.S. troops forthwith. Hillary said 60 days. I guess then the terrorists won’t have to use suicide bombers over there anymore and all will be well. Sounds like a plan. Except, they didn’t say what they would do when the jihadists start doing shopping malls and schools here, using mentally handicapped Americans.
a capella on February 1, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Were these women volunteers from NOW or Code Pink?
right2bright on February 1, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Interesting comparison.
Spirit of 1776 on February 1, 2008 at 2:31 PM
I think Jazeera left out some details
Al jazeera’s spin
Hoda Abdel Hamid, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Baghdad, said that the US and the Iraqi government were facing one of their sternest tests yet.
“There is so much security on the streets [of Baghdad]. Every single neighbourhood is guarded by blast walls. There has been practically a vehicle ban and curfew here for the past two years.
“As they lift these very stringent security measures, the attacks come back, in the soft spots of the town.”
Abdel Hamid said that an increasing poroprtion of suicide bomb attackers were women, especially in Baghdad and in the province of Diyala, which lies northeast of the capital.
“One of the reasons for that is because it is mainly men who get thoroughly checked when they enter crowded areas – whether it is a market or buildings,” she said.
William Amos on February 1, 2008 at 2:32 PM
And some will actually use this as evidence that we shouldn’t be fighting these people…
Jim Treacher on February 1, 2008 at 2:33 PM
This is no surprise. Islamic jihadists are sociopaths. They have no sympathy, no empathy. Their only goal is to murder for their Sharia utopia.
To call them “animals” is an insult to animals.
Yes, indeed, the road to hell is wide.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 1, 2008 at 2:33 PM
What, happened so much you’ve become immune to the horror of it? Children are innocent and naieve, would you put them in your “not so smart bombs” category? Tacky, definitely. The only truth you’re showing is your idiocy.
4shoes on February 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Well, duuuh, you can’t get a genius to wear an explosive vest.
Lehuster on February 1, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Yep.
amerpundit on February 1, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Really? I’d much rather have soldiers like Generals Petraeus and Wallace, who have actually fought against this brand of Islamic barbarism, calling the shots rather than a 27-year retired naval captain, even a decorated one.
Frankly, a person with as volatile a temper as McCain has is rarely the person you want making strategic decisions. Vigor, valour, and passion are fine attributes for the soldier on the ground, but an absolute handicap in the strategy room. War is not a battle of passions and temper; it is the dispassionate and systematic application of political force on an unwilling adversary.
Given his war-heavy rhetoric and the casual way he tramples Constitutional liberties, McCain strikes me as far less a candidate for the top Executive in the country and more for the role of military dictator.
Romney may lack McCain’s military experience, but he MORE than makes up for it in his demonstrated executive expertise. A good executive always knows his own weaknesses and surrounds himself with experts on those areas.
Harpazo on February 1, 2008 at 2:40 PM
It was tactics like this that led to the Sunni sheiks in al Anbar to reject AQ. Let’s hope this incident provides a catalyst for good and decent Muslims to strengthen their resolve against militant jihad.
My heartfelt sympathy for the families of these women. Sounds like they had no idea what they were being used for, and their nationalities and identities have not been released. I wonder if they were abductees as well as…this.
RushBaby on February 1, 2008 at 2:41 PM
If for no other reason, I would want to see McCain elected just to send a message to these animals. It would tell them that despite all their efforts to break the collective will of this country through their brutality, America still elected the biggest hawk it could find to keep the fight up against them.
Dudley Smith on February 1, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I’m sure I’m repeating what’s been said here, but that is absolutely horrific. We have repeatedly seen the actions of the enemy, yet so many insist that global warming is the bigger threat or George Bush, or the American Military, or Israel.
Terrorists do not think we are people. They want to kill all of us if we do not submit. They will continue to terrorize anyone they choose to. The only thing they understand is fighting back. I wish we could negotiate with them, but it’s quite obvious that we can’t.
mjk on February 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Just remember this: to Bill Maher those animals that perpetrated this are freedom fighters.
TheSitRep on February 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM
There are NO words in ANY language that can describe this. I self-edited myself, to keep from saying what I thought of the jokers on this thread. Feel the horror, then act through your intellect and capacity, but to joke about it shows what your spine is made of.
captivated_dem on February 1, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Can’t be good PR for the cause, can it?
dingbat on February 1, 2008 at 2:46 PM
god what the f**k?!!!
they hollow out and booby trap childrens bodies, they infiltrate construction crews and build explosives into school foundations…
jummy on February 1, 2008 at 2:46 PM
What’s left for the jihadis? They’ve used a married couple (her idea I think), a baby (for the first Bhutto bombing), handicapped people (to numerous to mention) … what bridge is left to cross for them?
This is depraved.
rjjago on February 1, 2008 at 2:46 PM
My God! This is what we are up against.
Ann on February 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Precisely, and this is true of some of the subsequent comments. I have noticed a disturbing crassness and vulgarity in a number of new Hot Air members. Some of these posts make my skin crawl.
DrMagnolias on February 1, 2008 at 2:51 PM
All of you are correct this is depraved!!!!
azcop on February 1, 2008 at 2:51 PM
P.S. Lest we forget, the Soviets – during their Afghan excursion – planted explosives that were MADE TO LOOK LIKE TOYS, so that any Afghan child, who picked one up, would lose his hand, arm or eyesight.
Islamic jihadism – you have the face of Communism.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 1, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Death, murder and slaughter is their instinct, not that it exculpates them from their depraved actions. I won’t put up much of a protest if you want to call them evil, though. It’s close enough. Just as long as we agree that what’s called for here is an extermination; there’s no hope of rehabilitation.
RightOFLeft on February 1, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Posters 1 and 2 and a few others now, there was no humor in your remarks, they boarder more on ignorant,infantile, uncaring. These were some of the most innocent of all people, being used by the most cruel and inhuman animals on earth.
oldernslower on February 1, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Speaking of terorists, the punks who stole the Vetrans flag…9 times! (HA home page story). I wish the guy would have taken an electrical cord, plugged it in & hot wired the flag pole! Set thier little a$$e$ on fire!
kcd on February 1, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Reminds me of the Charles Bronson line, in one of the Death Wish flicks:
“Cockroaches, kill ‘em all. Otherwise, what’s the point?”
OhEssYouCowboys on February 1, 2008 at 2:58 PM
I also have noticed that, makes me cringe sometimes.
4shoes on February 1, 2008 at 2:58 PM
That’s the problem, folks. People think McCain’s a hawk.
David Limbaugh
McCain is aggressive and combative alright. But his tenacious pit bull support for amnesty and open borders, not to mention Less Constitution for You and Me, More Constitution for Detained Terrorists…the guy is a Dove in Hawk’s feathers.
RushBaby on February 1, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Right on. In fact, I suspect one of McCain’s major flaws as CiC would be his supreme confidence in his own abilities as a military commander, hence even more meddling in the day to day operations than would be helpful.
On the issue of joking about the intelligence of suicide bombers, I might note that the leader of the 9-11 group had a masters degree. Some of them are ideologically driven, and some, like these poor women, are victims of that same Islamic ideology. I even imagine some of the terrorists also joked about it. If the shoe fits,…
a capella on February 1, 2008 at 2:59 PM
I’ve never seen Grizzly Man, but in the trailer, I remember them showing him crying into the camerea because one of the bears ate one of its children. He just couldn’t understand it.
BohicaTwentyTwo on February 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Black Widow Chechyan Holy Warrior chicks were used in the Russian theatre massacre as well. History Channel show had clear video of the bombs and shrapnel taped to their chests. Russian forces executed them on the spot rather than try to take them.
scottm on February 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Ditto that. Are these not ban-worthy? Back on topic, there is not a corner of Hell hot enough for the total degerates who would use innocents to kill more innocents.
Lan Astaslem on February 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Extermination would be too kind to these monsters. We should put them in a room with each other and slowly begin to fill it with pork products from above. The only thing these savages understand is that hell awaits them should they ingest pork. Talk, Starve, or go to hell by your own twisted rules. THEN we can exterminate them.
BKennedy on February 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Well, I’ve been mulling the prospect of not voting, or even voting for a dhimmicrat, as a protest against the decidedly questionable committment to even a few conservative principles of the apparent front runner for the Republicans. Stories like this make it no contest.
If a dhimmicrat is voted in we will pull out of Iraq before the first term is over, and it will decend into chaos, most likely. Our stature will fall, AQ will have a base of operations and from there will infiltrate our borders and begin doing things like this. And, no doubt, would love to pull off a Beslan-like operation.
I know that Hillary and Obama would bend over backwards into a traditional left wing appeasement posture. McCain, well, he might acutally stand up to them.
Leonidas Hoplite on February 1, 2008 at 3:01 PM
This shows two things, that the jihadis are the worst humanity has to offer, which most of us knew already, but I think it also shows how desperate they are. This isn’t gonna endear them to anyone but other hardcore jihadists, and the whole point of terrorism/guerilla warfare is to act in ways that will win local approval.
doubleplusundead on February 1, 2008 at 3:02 PM
OK, let me get this straight. The animals in question strapped bombs to two mentally handicapped women, which of course if they weren’t being used as a bomber would be treated as property, and I’m the bad guy for making a joke? I should feel the horror and act through my intellect? Friend, I’ve been calling on our troops to dip their bullets in ham for a long time, and further to publicize the action. The only things cowards like that respect is force and fear. If they are afraid of you, they stay away from you, and leave you alone.
Instead we tell our Military that they can’t use ammunition manufactured in Israel because it might make our enemy angry. Oh, well we wouldn’t want them angry at us, that might make things worse.
We’re trying to win the hearts of the heartless, the minds of the brainwashed to hate us. We know they are cowards, otherwise Osama would have been on the 9-11 planes. If you think I am the real bad guy over a joke, then you’re a Dem alright. Because it’s that mentality that blames George Bush for the war in the first place.
Friends, when you come to the conclusion that you can’t negotiate with this, you can’t try and educate that mindset, then you’ll be ready to win the war on terror. Until then, feel the outrage at my jokes.
Snake307 on February 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Say what?
Who started it, then? I’m talking about the war in Iraq; not the war on terror; not jihadism. The war in Iraq.
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Snake307 on February 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Well said.
kcd on February 1, 2008 at 3:05 PM
The animals that would do this do not deserve another minute on Earth. And unfortunately, the scumball Islamists that have done this are planning for much worse this year.
We have been spared so far by Pres. Bush’s initial good work against these Islamist scum suckers, but with Pres Bush’s reversion to the James Baker // Brent Srowcroft policy of treating the Islamists as potential business partners rather than evil incarnate, which is what they are, we will be seeing a great deal more this.
Clearly, with his total surrender to Fatah and Hamas, and with his surrender to Iran on nuclear weapons, Bush has lost his stomach for fighting the war that was declared against us and unless we get a new pres in their soon that will redouble our efforts at killing every single one of these bastards, we will see it here and even worse
georgealbert on February 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM
One in the same, my friend, one in the same. Unless of course, sponsoring terrorism in Israel doesn’t count. Then perhaps you’d like to explain to Israelis that they aren’t people.
The War on Terror is a nebulous thing. It isn’t, look there’s Hitler, let’s fight Germans! It’s, look there are some Islamic terrorists from any and all nations, um, where do we start? We start with the sponsors because without the cash flow, there isn’t terrorists. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc.
This war is going to take a long time and will be a messy thing, but if you’re not willing to fight now, you’ll never be ready. Even if another 9/11 happens.
mjk on February 1, 2008 at 3:10 PM
I think that most in American and other civilized countries as well, will never really grasp the hatred, viciousness and pure evil of the terrorists. By the time they do, the jihadists cold blade will be at their own throats and by then it will be too late. I pray to God this never happens before people open their eyes and realize you cannot reason with these barbarians.
kcd on February 1, 2008 at 3:10 PM
I don’t know what’s more horrible, attacks like this or the fact that the whole of civilization has not come down on these twisted @$&%# and crushed them into oblivion.
bojack on February 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Ron Paul started the War in Iraq by capitulating to the terrorists. His surrendercrat view that the US is responsible for all the world’s ills based on the idea we don’t support his “Fortress America” view of FP emboldened the enemy.
When you really look at it, old Stormfront himself is responsible for the War in Iraq.
BKennedy on February 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM
BKennedy on February 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM
LOL!!
kcd on February 1, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Love and accept the Religion of Peace!
American global warming is to blame!
Too many putting profit over patriotism!
We have to slow down our economy!
McCain is the conservative foot soldier that can unite us all!
JellyToast on February 1, 2008 at 3:13 PM
“Demonic” is the correct term, Bryan. That says it all.
Bugler on February 1, 2008 at 3:13 PM
If we weren’t there, they would not have to use these methods…therefore they are all our fault. We are the invaders, they are the freedom fighters.
Boy, won’t you right wing extremists ever learn?
…anyway that’s is how the liberal readers think. We are in essence the ones strapping the bombs to these women…Women, did someone say women?…where is NOW?
right2bright on February 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM
I agree Bryan, we must win, but what will winning look like in either Iraq or Afghanistan when they both have shiny new constitutions based on sharia law decorated with western eyewash?
You need leaders that understand Islam, I don’t think anyone has them at the moment. They are scrambling to get their own “Mr.Islam’s” who will tell them what to do.
This war isn’t even being properly fought let alone won.
BL@KBIRD on February 1, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Bush launched the war against saddam and his regime, but it was the jihadists who declared war on the Iraqi civilians.
bojack on February 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Someone has beat this drum a little to hard…wasn’t there a resolution or two or something?
right2bright on February 1, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Al Qaeda is truly a cult of death. These people are depraved maniacs. This is an absolute horror and only underscores the evil we are up against.
mattyj86 on February 1, 2008 at 3:18 PM
We don’t think you are “the bad guy” for making jokes. They are the enemy, and I think we are all quite clear on that. We think your jokes are crass, borish, out of place, and show a lack of human feeling for the victims of evil men who strapped bombs to them and sent them into a public place to be a weapon. No one has implied that we should negotiate or coddle the enemey.
Being rude and insulting doesn’t show the enemy who’s boss. Making ugly comments on a blog post doesn’t win the WOT. It just makes you rude.
TX Mom on February 1, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Ignore the dem at the end of my screen name. I get smacked often for it. I was speaking about the post and how horrible, for lack of descriptive words for it, what those scum did to the innocents. One can recognize the disgust one feels about reading articles like this, and then take rational actions, within one’s own capacity to affect change, instead of feeling the disgust and hiding behind humor. The brain has many defense mechanisms and now is not the time to be on the defensive.
captivated_dem on February 1, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Yes, and we’ve been fighting another PC half war, thanks to Bush II. Religion of
peacepieces and all that. He’s burning out our military, prosecuting them, and bankrupting the treasury. The handwriting was on the wall when Jorge Boosh let Iraq and Afghanistan have EE-Slom in their constitutions. Secularization and freedom of religion was in order. Ataturk must’ve broken some eggs, yet Turkey suffers creeping Islamification.It’s time to realize that the difference between a Muslim and a jihadist is the difference between a beta and alpha male. Jihad is integral to their ideology. Go ahead Bush II, keep importing the ummah.
Feedie on February 1, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Come on, dude, do you actually have anything to back up your assumptions? No, you don’t.
Read any old history of the twentieth century and discover yourself where the funding for terrorism comes from. You seem to believe that the US is always on the side of the angels.
Yes, Saddam funded terrorism and we’ve funded Saddam. And, to take just one of the present and numerous hypocritical blunders, now we fund Sunni insurgents so that they will step down in their war against our men and women! Fancy that.
The war on terrorism is indeed a nebulous thing. So, do we destroy a quarter of the planet so as to guarantee that we get a few good shots off? Apparently so by the looks of this thread.
Used to be a patriot carried an element of suspicion of the state. Not any longer.
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 3:24 PM
There are few, if any, Hot Air members who would disagree significantly with the majority of your statement; however, the object of your joke was not the terrorists, but the mentally disabled women they murdered and used as murder weapons. Such joking smacks of moral callousness.
DrMagnolias on February 1, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Very astute observation.
Frozen Tex on February 1, 2008 at 3:25 PM
I watched Minute Men with my childen this past weekend and we asked each other where we would go if we could time travel. Originally, I said that I would like to go back in time to meet Jesus. Today, I would go back to Mohammed’s time and kill his sick ass before he started that sick, violent
religeoncult.mogilla on February 1, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Yeah, so?
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Yeah, I’ve always saved the “Not-So-Smart-Bomb” description for those that willingly and knowingly blow themselves up.
Frozen Tex on February 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Clearly Ron Paul can solve all our problems by retreating from everywhere. No more funding for allies! No more funding for enemies! No more having any positive impact on anywhere at all!
Reality is a stubborn thing, but Ron Paul is more stubborn!
RON PAUL ‘08!
REALISM IS NOT AN OPTION!
BKennedy on February 1, 2008 at 3:27 PM
One thing to think about…as time goes on, these depraved tactics get more and more publicized. Slowly, slowly, even the sheep get it. That these guys are bad. It took the Iraqi Sunnis a while to get it. They finally did — and they are going to hate these guys forever. It will take the left leaning sheep in the EU and the USA a while to really get it. But eventually they will also. (Not the Leftists — they secretly dig it.)
SunSword on February 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM
BKennedy on February 1, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Bryan’s right, of course, regarding the gallows humor. But let’s go easy on our fellow travelers here; either you laugh or you cry at these subhuman maggots in Al Qaeda.
Jaibones on February 1, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Oops. Screwed the quotes thing up. Don’t mean to suggest that BKennedy would ever think similarly as I.
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 3:31 PM
This will stop happening once we leave.
Chuck Schick on February 1, 2008 at 3:31 PM
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