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2005-02-21 Iraq-Jordan

Forget Islam, insurgents serve Darwinism

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-21 12:40:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh how nice the Law of Unintended Consequences can be! I'm quite happy that many of the thugs wind up getting theirs, while trying to get ours! Note to decency though, I think the innocent young lad with Downs syndrome was not a perp but was used mercilessly by the blood thirsty animals that bomb anything or anyone.

Posted by Someday soon 2005-02-21 2:14:12 AM|| 2005-02-21 2:14:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 typical sneering attitude towards soldiers. But it's still a funny story anyway.

lolled back in his chair and roared with laughter.

a rash soldier who mocks an adversary that has killed more than 1000 US troops in 18 months. But Stockmoe has a serious point,

Despite the media's insistence that the insurgents are mean lean fighting machines ...for an all out war and occupation of another country full of suicidal people from all over the dysfunctional middle east, pumped up by a well-funded madrassas, that's about as low as the numbers could possible be. I think it would be a safe bet to say we lose more women in our own country to psychos than we lose soldiers in a major world war. Mocking these guys with Darwin Awards seems like a good way to me, to counter the media propaganda that these "freedom fighters" are highly skilled experts rather than a bunch of stupid splodydopes.

one hapless suicide bomber apparently had Down syndrome
I'm guessing that this soldier didn't use the word "hapless" but rather the author did in an effort to make him look callous and mean.

Just another not so subtle effort by the media to portray our soldiers in a bad light.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-21 2:32:05 AM|| 2005-02-21 2:32:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Heh. Re: Stockmoe - Funny stuff from a guy who knows which hand has the shit - and which the shinola. His comments are, indeed, welcome. No wonder there are "representatives" of the "insurgency" who want to meet and "negotiate"...

"there is every chance it has several years to run"

WTF? Says who? Toby Harnden abandons the authoritative source and tries to put the editorial agenda touch on the story. Wrong-o, wankoff. Where's your source for that conclusion, digger duud?

It seems the days of the Masterminds have run out in Iraq. Lol, Al Zarqi prolly left some time ago, frustrated with the surviving dopes available to him. When the Iran / Syria connection gets decapped, then there will be no more direction, no money, and no "glorious" insurgency or martyrdom. Now that's an ending, Tobe.

Posted by .com 2005-02-21 2:41:26 AM|| 2005-02-21 2:41:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Article: It is perhaps a rash soldier who mocks an adversary that has killed more than 1000 US troops in 18 months.

If the writer knew any history, he wouldn't say it was rash. It took the Japanese a week to kill 1000 GI's on Iwo Jima. It took the North Vietnamese a month to kill 1000 GI's during Tet. It has taken these death-defying(TM), fanatical(TM) holy warriors 18 months to kill 1000 GI's. That's not a record to be proud of.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-02-21 2:56:05 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-02-21 2:56:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "They were storing the mortar rounds in the car engine compartment and the rounds got overheated. Two of these clowns dropped them in the tube and they exploded, blowing their legs off." Abandoning the lifeless carcasses and smouldering wreckage of the car, the third brother sought refuge in a house. The occupants were less than impressed, Stockmoe said, slapping his thigh. "So they proceeded to beat the crap out of him and then turned him over to the Iraqi police. It was like the movie Dumb and Dumber."

Lt Col: You don't know how close you are!

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-21 7:50:15 AM|| 2005-02-21 7:50:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The very essence of their movement is Darwinistic: the struggle between civilization and barbaraism. They know there is no way they can keep up with civilization, so their only alternatives are to utterly destroy civilization or fade away. Ironically, this would make them comrades of purpose with many others in the world who cannot cope with changing times, but who have opted for annihilation rather than adaptation. Civility, however, should not look to these individuals with nostalgic admiration, because while a single velociraptor is fascinating, a hundred million of them are a problem.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-02-21 9:00:14 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:00:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Are you sure about this? According to the New York Times story above, these guys are fucking military geniuses...

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-21 9:02:09 AM|| 2005-02-21 9:02:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Considering it's falling circulation numbers, the NYT is a Darwin Award contender.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-21 12:13:28 PM|| 2005-02-21 12:13:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 it's like these, you see:

allah is protecting them!

if they die, they go to paradise and 72 perpetual virgins;

and, their families are showered with honour.

Posted by abdul 2005-02-21 5:20:52 PM|| 2005-02-21 5:20:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 nice: lying to suckers, huh ~~P.T.~~ Abdul?

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-21 5:38:23 PM|| 2005-02-21 5:38:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11
and, their families are showered with honour.

That's not honor tinkling down on them.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-21 5:44:41 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-21 5:44:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 #9-

of course they have 72 perpetual virgins, abdul, since they cannot get it up to de-flower their 'property'.

Posted by Jame Retief 2005-02-21 5:50:44 PM|| 2005-02-21 5:50:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Islamic men - even more neurotic than Maureen Dowd

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-21 5:52:35 PM|| 2005-02-21 5:52:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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