Just a guess, but you’re clueless as to what the word “duress” means, aintcha?
You’ve got an extra word there, spunky.
How do you know that wasn’t her intent? She seems awfully fond of them, after all. Changing her name, wearing their costume, etc.
I literally fell out of my chair at that statement. Do you know if Wal-Mart sells terrorist costumes for Halloween?
Come on, man. I thought we were playing the quiet game.
How do you know it was? You’re the one accusing people of things. How about you prove them, instead of shrieking like Flick with his tongue stuck to the flagpole?
Here, I’ll even help.
Death to America. Yah.
Now, demonstrate how I just committed treason.
- How do you know her intent?
2)Who are they? Muslims? Terrorists? Reporters?
Again, you stupid bastard, taking an Arabic name and wearing a headscarf in an Islamic country is not QUITE the same as siding with terrorists. It takes a kind of really special, malicious ignorance to spew the crap you’re spewing right now. Jill Carroll is the victim here, you ass. I’m surprised she’s alive at all.
Demonstrate this. Your post has been reported to your local FBI agency.
Updike: here is Jill Caroll’s previous situation: She is kidnapped by people who use kidnapping as leverage and publicity for their cause; a US journalist is prime bait and fodder to focus world attention. She is held, thinking every day that she might be beheaded every day for three months. Or , perhaps, simply shot in the head. I cannot imagine waking up every day for three months knowing I might die at any minute.
The “unless” factor is to include the abhorrhent impossible most of us, thankfully, will never have to endure. It’s supposed to include something that will never be commonplace, but, unfortunately, we have to sadly include under human duress.
At this point, I’m going to bow out until I hear what Jill Carroll has to say in coming days. I’ll be listening to, and appreciating, her experience
A victim of what, exactly? Her do-gooder attitude that got her over there in the first place?
Sorry, just kidding, probably not appropriate.
She changed her name and wore native garb before she was captured. I don’t know what you think you mean by “their costume,” but “they” don’t have a “costume.” She has expressed no fondness for her captors, just the opposite. If you want to allege “intent” to help her captors, it is your burden to prove it. I realize that you are intellectually challenged but maybe you can get one of the staff workers in your group home to explain “presumption of innocence” to you.
Oh,and this may come as a shock to you but headscarf does not equal “terrorist.”
Can you stand up to torture, yes or no?
Good thing, too. By your standards, wasting the FBI’s valuable fucking time to score petty partisan points would aid those whom the FBI should be paying attention too and thus qualify as treason. You’d have to hang yourself.
Fortunately for you, your intent was likely just to be a dick.
Also fortunately for you, neither ignorance nor irony are fatal.
Updike, you are an ignorant asshole.
You really are a vile little shit.
I seriously don’t think you even know what you’re saying at this point. Her “do-gooder attitude”?! She’s a REPORTER! She reports the news! The real news, not the pablum the military liaison hands out xeroxed copies of to the country-clubbers in the Green Zone. She was there to (read carefully now) REPORT. THE. NEWS. I’d have much less respect for her right now if she were just one of the lapdogs sitting in a hotel in downtown Baghdad feeding the Official Version to their home office.
So what was your opinion of the Quaker peacemaker folks that got taken hostage and were released recently? I don’t think I remember you squatting and dumping one in that thread…
Uh… a victim of kidnapping by murderous terrorists? I have trouble believing that even you are actually this stupid. Or does someone breathe for you?
Probably?? Talk about being a jerk.
You subhuman cretin. You are aware, I’m sure, that not all Iraqis are terrorists, right? Indeed, to listen to the supporters of this war, the entire point is to create a free country for folks who wear head scarves and name their daughters things like “Zaraib”. They are our allies, moron.
You are also aware, you weeping pustule on the face of this message board, that it’s a good idea for a journalist to make a connection with her subjects. Both in order to get them to open up to her, and so that she can better understand what she’s writing about. In this case, part of that was aping local culture.
And I know that you know, you utter fool, that Iraq is a fucking dangerous place, especially for Western women. Keeping a low profile by dressing and acting Iraqi is just prudent. Not cowardly, not selling out, just a sensible way to not stand out so much so that the bad guys are slightly less likely to notice you, kidnap you, hold you for three months, and force you to make anti-American statements under threat of death.
I hope no one you love is ever held hostage. I know that no one you know ever has been, or you wouldn’t be displaying such a hideous lack of empathy.
Now won’t you feel bad if it turns out Updike’s posting from an iron lung?
Yeah, I know. I probably wouldn’t either, at this point…
No, GWB’s.
She wore their costume because that was regional dress for women, and it is expected for travelers to dress likewise. As for changing her name, wasn’t she a reporter undercover? You do know what “undercover” means, right?
If you’re going to accuse her of committing a crime, it’s not up to her to prove she didn’t do it, it’s up to YOU to prove she did. Do you know nothing of the American legal system?
Again, Updike, why aren’t YOU over there fighting against these people? Fucking coward.
Aw, fuck. I was howling with laughter thinking it was true.
I even woke up my husband from his doze in front of the TV (waiting for the game to be called, stupid rain!).