Heavy U.S. air strikes batter Iraqi holy city

Associated Press by way of the Boston Herald ^ | 7AUG04 | Associated Press

[Askel5]

=== The heavy battles came as the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, arrived in Britain to receive medical treatment for what an aide called ``a health crisis'' involving his heart.


Uh-huh.


Well ... I guess all this puts into better perspective George H. Bush's encouraging the Shi'ite's to revolt against Saddam only to hang them out to dry on the line.

[applemac_g4]

Is there anything besides Iraqi cities that the liberal media finds "holy"?

[Askel5]

=== are there any non-Holy cities anywhere in the entire middle east?


A better question to ask would be if there are ANY left in the West.

[Askel5]

Many western observers trace the most recent wave of violence to the grisly assassination of four US security personnel in the city of Falluja on March 31. But the trigger for the Shi'ite uprising came a week earlier, on March 25,whenUS administrator Paul Bremer announced that America intended to keep its troops in Iraq after June 30, whether the new Iraqi administration liked it or not.

"Clerical Terror" -- The Sunday Business Post

[familyop]

"We had some leftover from Dresden churches and the seat of Christian Japan that was Nagasaki?"

Well, actually, we keep making new ones. And they work as well against one kind of NAZI as another.

[Askel5]

=== Well, actually, we keep making new ones. And they work as well against one kind of NAZI as another.


It's poor form to be so patently obvious when you're over here trying to make rank and file "conservatives" look bad.

Next time lose the caps and think of some epithet that's not quite so beat from overuse as "Nazi".

[Billthedrill]

What I hear is that these boys were mostly from out of town. Somebody a little east of there figured Sadr could step out with a little imported muscle. The Iranians are fools, and a lot of them are now dead fools.

[Axenolith]

Yea, but the downside is that Islamic martyr funerals are always target rich environments...

[The Duke]

U.S. helicopter gunships and fighter jets pounded Shiite Muslim insurgents hiding in a sprawling cemetery...

I guess Abdul is *really* going to be rolling over in his grave over this one! :)

[Axenolith]

Abortions and taxes...

[GeronL]

There are literally thousands of American cities that are holy.

[Askel5]

=== Jesus. A headline that full of propagadna speak should have people fired and butts in streets.

One Christian Soldier responds to the notion of "holy" cities heavily populated by that religious group most persecuted by Saddam. Not to mentioned outright slaughtered by Saddam once they placed their faith in the US Government to help them. Nothing is holy anymore.

[familyop]

"It's poor form to be so patently obvious when you're over here trying to make rank and file "conservatives" look bad."

Next time lose the caps and think of some epithet that's not quite so beat from overuse as "Nazi"."

..."epithet" against the enemy radical Islamists, the Nazis, themselves (as you cried for Dresden) and the Japanese of WWII? "Nazi" fits well enough. Our terrorist enemy uses the same propaganda tactics (Blood Libel Canard, etc.) while seeking to destroy us for our opposition against their effort to exterminate the Jews.

And as for using all caps, I was unaware that "Nazi" is only short for Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (National Socialist German Workers' Party) instead of being an acronym. I'm not a student of the German language and have no great requirement to be so.

I stand corrected toward avoiding the use of all capital letters for the word, "Nazi" but will continue to use it where it fits. That includes the use of it to describe Europeans and US Democrats who sympathize with the enemy.

And cheers to more Dresdens where such action is necessary.

[familyop]

You replied to HarryCaul in your comment #35 without showing your reply to that person (no "To:" line in your reply). ...thought that HarryCaul might like follow the link here and see it.

[vger]

We'll for street fighting in holy cities perhaps one should use the holy hand grenade! Here's how!

Book of Armaments, Chapter Two, verses 9-21 "...and St. Antilot raised the Hand Grenade on high, saying 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it, thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy'.

And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats.

And the Lord spake, saying, "First, shalt thou take out the Holy pin. Then, shalt thou count to three; no more, no less.

Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four, shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.

Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it. Amen."

[Askel5]

=== And cheers to more Dresdens where such action is necessary.

There's got to be a word for that sort of oxymoronic sentence.

In any case, it's a profound bit of wordsmithing on your part. I wasn't sure this thread could get any more revolting but you managed.

I sure hope God has revised His sense of judgment from the days when even an abomination like Sodom was spared for the 50, the 30, the 10 good men therein.

Else spoilers like you are gonna get us all laid to waste.