# We are happy \[the Space Shuttle\] broke up." **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148 "2003-02-01T19:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/1 "2003-02-01T19:45:59Z")
This is the first Pit Thread I’ve ever intentionally started. From [here](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20030201/wl_nm/shuttle_iraq_dc). > [@](#): > > BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew – including the first Israeli in space – was that its was God’s retribution on Americans. > > “We are happy that it broke up,” government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said. > > “God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us,” he said. > > Car mechanic Mohammed Jaber al-Tamini noted Israeli air force Colonel Ilan Ramon was among the dead when the shuttle broke up shortly before its return to earth. > > “Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason (in 1981), now time has come and God has retaliated to their aggression,” Tamini said. Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi is the kind of fuck-wit who would break a puppy’s legs and then laugh at it as it tried to get away. “Hey, look! I’m raping a five-year-old! Get a load of the look on her face!” People like Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi have no humanity. People like him don’t care about anything except their own power and their own hatred. Maybe someone will shove a jagged end of a broken broom handle up his rectum, and maybe I’ll laught at him. People like Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi have no soul; or if they do, then it is a putrid and rotten thing. Oh, and “God is avenging us”? Yeah, something bad happens to someone you don’t like – 22 years after an incident – and of _course_ there is a connection. What a sicko. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/2 "2003-02-01T19:51:04Z")
The best revenge is not living in a complete shithole of a country. ---
**Author:** ![Azael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Azael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azael)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/3 "2003-02-01T19:51:11Z")
What an asshole ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/4 "2003-02-01T19:52:49Z")
Well, gee, couldn’t see _that_ coming a mile off. :rolleyes: And yeah, right, a government employee" and a “car mechanic” are excellent spokespersons for all of Iraq. Trust the media to go with the first sound bites they can get. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/5 "2003-02-01T19:57:06Z")
> [@](#): > > And yeah, right, a government employee" and a “car mechanic” are excellent spokespersons for all of Iraq. Trust the media to go with the first sound bites they can get Don’t be naive. They do speak for Iraq–all Iraqis hate Israel and Jews and they’re none too fond of the US either. Do you really think there’s anyone in Iraq, or any Arab country for that matter, who has a favorable opinion of Israel? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/6 "2003-02-01T19:58:37Z")
Told you so. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/7 "2003-02-01T20:00:44Z")
FTR I am not indicting all of the Iraqi people. Only the ones who feel the same was Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi does. Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi and his ilk deserve the same treatment they give others. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/8 "2003-02-01T20:03:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi and his ilk deserve the same treatment they give others. \*\* Well, they’re about to get it. I can imagine some good ol’ boys cheering as the bombs rain down on Baghdad. ---
**Author:** ![Mothchunks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mothchunks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mothchunks)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/9 "2003-02-01T20:04:52Z")
it wont be for very long ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/10 "2003-02-01T20:05:37Z")
> [@](#): > > I can imagine some good ol’ boys cheering as the bombs rain down on Baghdad. Sadly, I suspect there will be quite a bit of that here. Disgusting when anyone rejoices in the death of innocents, Iraqi, American, or Israeli. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/11 "2003-02-01T20:05:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, they’re about to get it. > > I can imagine some good ol’ boys cheering as the bombs rain down on Baghdad. I don’t know how to respond to that. I’m still against a war in Iraq. But I can’t help wondering how people like Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi & Co. would react if (when) we bomb – and then tell them it’s God’s retribution on them for being idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/12 "2003-02-01T20:06:10Z")
I’m angered by their lack of humanity. Iraq is full of people lack that. Fucking ignorant bastards. Any guesses on how long they and their God would last against the US Army? ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/13 "2003-02-01T20:07:24Z")
By the way I’m not advocating war. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/14 "2003-02-01T20:07:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Any guesses on how long they and their God would last against the US Army? Uh, it’s the same god that Christians and Jews worship. ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/15 "2003-02-01T20:09:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*Uh, it’s the same god that Christians and Jews worship. \*\* Uh no, not really. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/16 "2003-02-01T20:10:57Z")
**Johnny L.A.** , Curious, did you expect anything different than a statement like that? I certainly didn’t so I wonder why you pitted the report and act so shocked that something like that was said by a person who has no respect for Americans to begin with? If not him, I am sure there are hundreds standing in line with the same words. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/17 "2003-02-01T20:20:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Curious, did you expect anything different than a statement like that? The in-flight break-up of the Shuttle has no relation to the bombing of a nuclear power plant. Abdul al-Jackass is an idiot, and the Pit is full of people pointing out the idiocy of others. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/18 "2003-02-01T20:21:23Z")
Uh, **Johnny**? Let me give you a scenario: Middle Easterner, with some family ties, recently relocated to a new area, has theophany, attributes the experience to “the One True God,” identifies that God by name previously used by a god of the local polytheism, borrows from previously existing monotheistic faith but shapes it to his own belief system. Now, was I describing Mohammed? Or Moses? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/19 "2003-02-01T20:24:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Uh, **Johnny**? I assume you mean **JohnnyIsGood**. ---
**Author:** ![BeatenMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@BeatenMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeatenMan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148/20 "2003-02-01T20:32:28Z")
## quote: ## By the way I’m not advocating war. There will not be a war Iraq. It will be a one sided beating. Absorbing punishment does not count as a war. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-happy-the-space-shuttle-broke-up/152148.md?page=2)