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2005-01-23 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-23 8:27:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 instaed of spending all his time reading the koran and praying why won't imaad find a damn job

Posted by smokeysinse 2005-01-23 10:29:43 AM|| 2005-01-23 10:29:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Moslem victimhood 101.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-01-23 11:17:37 AM|| 2005-01-23 11:17:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 My bullshit detector's pegging on this one.

But assuming any of it is true, what's his problem? He had the dirty magazines; he had the Koran in the same room. They were already together; the soldiers just made it more obvious.

And yeah, beating his mother because he got caught by someone else doing something his religion says he's not supposed to do is a perfectly normal response. Wanker.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-23 11:46:07 AM|| 2005-01-23 11:46:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sniff, sniff.....
"And then, they asked to borrow my porn.... and didn't say they would return it! Do you know how hard it is to get porn here?"

Posted by Mark E. 2005-01-23 11:55:07 AM|| 2005-01-23 11:55:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The bottom line:

The guy abused his mom because she found out about his stash. That is the real crime.

She tried to help him by getting some counseling or taking anti-depressants, and he refused help. He would be homeless without her.

He is worthless, not working. Tell me there is no opportunities for him to do at least some volunteering to build his resume.

He is just a fat coddled slob.

His new found religious zealotry coupled with his obvious mental problems makes him a good pick for a first round draft choice to be a suicide bomber.

He's 32 and uses swimsuit clad photos for smut? Life is waaaayyy too short for soft core pornography.

Posted by Penguin 2005-01-23 2:36:43 PM|| 2005-01-23 2:36:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 typical douchebag.

Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-23 2:51:27 PM|| 2005-01-23 2:51:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 typical WaPo contact for their agenda

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-23 3:06:05 PM|| 2005-01-23 3:06:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Life is waaaayyy too short for soft core pornography.

LOL! You available for 2008?

Posted by Carl with a K 2005-01-23 4:09:13 PM|| 2005-01-23 4:09:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 This ridiculous article finally completes the MSM's long descent into self-parody. It asserts that a guy was caught with porn and beat his mother bacause of it, then asks us with a straight face to accept him as the victim, and tacitly assumes not only that this is our fault but that this is the kind of "victimization" that fuels the insurgency.

The instituational media are the enemy, insane gibbering monsters who have invented their own inverted whorehouse value system and foisted it on the rest of society.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-23 5:09:21 PM|| 2005-01-23 5:09:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The little secret here is that the vast majority of western MSM correspondents do not have a clue as to what is happening inside the countries they're covering. They often lack language skills and more importantly, almost always lack good sources within the circles of power in the host country. The result is that most foreign dispatches are simply recycled shit patched together from wire services and local papers, with lots of comments from western thinktankers thrown in to buttress a predetermined story angle.

The blogosphere will have the greatest impact on foreign news reporting, IMHO. Intelligent local bloggers can very quickly eviscerate the incompetent reports of any foreign correspondent.

Posted by lex 2005-01-23 5:16:30 PM|| 2005-01-23 5:16:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm betting the article was a joke. Or else the author lost a bet with a hack short-story writer whose tale of an angry male loser/wanker failed to make it into the New Yorker. Lose the bet, you print my story, with names and scenery changed.

Posted by lex 2005-01-23 6:26:12 PM|| 2005-01-23 6:26:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I stopped reading when the dude hit his mom. If he had some pics of girlies, I'm positive they were in less than swimsuits.

Posted by nada 2005-01-23 11:31:54 PM|| 2005-01-23 11:31:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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