Hrmmm. It appears I might be wrong.
I suppose GW could also be a Satan-laced Druid, which would make the US Army ‘run by druids’.
Thanks?! I already gave in and quit nitpicking. Read a little further.
Here is some more information that for some reason didn’t quite make it into the OP.
“The tiger tore off one of the soldier’s fingers and mauled his arm. Another soldier immediately fired at the animal and killed it, Mr. Salman Musa told AFP.”
The use of the word immediately indicates that the shooting was a quick reaction to his buddy being mauled by a tiger. It’s not like it was a revenge killing, or even some attempt at playing zookeeper by putting a “dangerous” animal down, but rather an immediate (dare I say rational) reaction to a potentially life-threatening situation.
And this:
“The soldiers arrived in the evening with food and beer, accompanied by a group of Iraqi police officers,” Adel Salman Musa said."
Neither the OP nor anybody else IIRC even mentioned this aspect. Shouldn’t the Iraqi police officers be held accountable for this incident as well? They would presumably have an even greater vested interest in the Baghdad Zoo than the soldiers. So what were they doing hanging out with the partying soldiers?
Instead, we get slagging on the soldiers, up to, and including, a wish for the soldier’s death. And unsurprisingly, some used the opportunity to slag President Bush as CIC, which is just nuts. I’m sure there were questionable acts committed by individual US soldiers between 1993 and 2001, but I honestly don’t recall anyone here blaming CIC Clinton for them.
You know what? I’m sorry about the tiger, but to blow this up way out of proportion to try and make the same, old, tired, political points was what set me off.
The Iraqi police officers were probably afraid that they would get shot next.
I just thought I’d pop in real quick to mention that Brutus’s little crap-nugget of calling people who oppose this war “Friends of Saddam” is about the most offensive thing I’ve heard so far.
Is there any limit to this fuckhead’s cockholedness?
Listen, Coulter-boy, we love this country every bit as much as you do, and probably more since we don’t accuse holders of dissenting opinions of being traitors. Loving America means loving it’s citizens and their right criticize the government.
I wouldn’t dream of stifiling your opinions just so you know that you sound like a whining little douchbag with that bullshit of yours.
Sincerely,
Fuck you.
Even that notorious moron Blix agrees that the protesters played a role in encouraging Saddam. If you don’t like the appellation, you shouldn’t have been showing support for Saddam. It is just that simple.
I agree with you, Jack, and plenty of others probably do to.
I think the reason no-one responded is that Brutus is so predictably ignorant that he’s not worth paying any attention to.
I agree with you, Jack, and plenty of others probably do too.
I think the reason no-one responded is that Brutus is so predictably ignorant that he’s not worth paying any attention to.
Did you forget the animal was behind bars? It’s not as though the tiger would have chased after him and killed him. The man broke his way in to the keeper’s cage, then put his hand through the bars in a foolish attempt to feed a captive tiger, which are not exactly known for their friendliness to keepers, let alone complete strangers.
So, the man puts his hand through the bars, tiger bites off his fingers, mauls his arm. But, unless the tiger was still holding on to his arm, there was absolutey NO FUCKING NEED to shoot the tiger.
The man agitated a caged animal, and paid the consequences, any and everything that happened to the first man was entirely his fault.
I’ll try to explain this to you once, you blithering ignoramous.
I did not support our country unilaterally invading Iraq. I did support (or rather would have supported) a multinational force sanctioned by the body we put together to decide these things, invading Iraq and taking down Saddam.
Just for clarity … **I never supported Saddam – I never thought Saddam’s regime was a good thing **.
Was that big enough and in English enough for you to fucking understand?
I don’t give a rat’s ass what you, Hans Blix, Ann Coulter or some moron in Bali thinks. I never supported Saddam Hussein in anything. You’re incessant insistance that my dissent is support for a madman is nothing short of amazingly idiotic.
So again, I say … fuck you. You cockhole.
Hmm, good idea. Psst, Kitty – go for the nuts.
But we don’t have verifiable evidence either way. The OP assumed the worst about the soldiers in question, and I did not. If the second soldier shot the tiger immediately, I can logically believe that the first soldier was still under imminent harm, or at the very least, that the second soldier thought his buddy was. Either way, the vitriol against the soldiers is uncalled for. Wishing death upon one or more of the soldiers is beyond the pale.
Well, the first half of that statement is certainly true.
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Since the United States did not go in alone, thus proving as false any claims of ‘unilateralism’, and since the UN recognizes the US and UK as the official ‘authorities’ in Iraq (de facto ‘legitimatization’ by that illegitimate body), I can assume you lend your full support to the action that did actually take place?
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You and your ilk didn’t support Saddam because you love Saddam. You supported Saddam because that course of action that you percieved would oppose G.W.Bush, a man that the Left has an incredibly blinding hatred for.
You claim to have not supported Saddam. What would have you done differently if you did support Saddam? Nothing. A distinction without a difference.
DNFTT
How about when, the day before the impeachment hearings started, Clinton lobbed some missiles at Iraq. Did you support that? Let’s hope so, otherwise you’re a Friend of Saddam, and I don’t think you’ve paid your dues recently…
Good advice Diogenes 
Let’s just let this die.
Couple of points, guys.[ul][li]No falsely attributed quotes. quixotic78, that means you, too.No troll-calling. That would include you, Diogenes.[/ul][/li]Furthermore, Brutus, you’re stepping extremely close to the trolling line with your stupid “Oppose Bush = Love Saddam” game. You’re a fucking idiot if you truly believe it, and a fucking troll if you don’t. Either way: it would be advisable to tone it the fuck down just about now. Either debate like a grown-up, or prepare to be shown the door. Same goes for your little “de facto legitimization” stunt up there. No sane person would say that unless they’ve been under a rock for the past 2 years, so knock it off.
milroyj cracks me up, too. But since absolute stupidity isn’t a bannable offence (yet), I can’t warn him for it.
Brutus, please quote here the passage in your cited interview where Blix “agrees that the protesters played a role in encouraging Saddam”.
I wouldn’t want you to have to read the provided cite, so here you go:
I did indeed read that, several times, and that is not what you appeared to mean. In the light of your previous posts, what you meant was not encouraging “brinkmanship” as Blix said, but “encouraging Saddam” in his tyrrany of murder, torture, etc.
You old spinmeister.