Weazl will make some people angry today. Some people may be disgusted. Some people may be sad. Some may be a combination of the above. But weazl decided to show a bit of the other side of the Iraq war by posting videos gathered across a period of time depicting the not only the brutality of war inflicted in Iraqis, but the hidden brutality of war inflicted on Americans. And given the resistance that the US has encountered in Iraq, it is no surprise that the US is considering a nuclear attack on Iran. (weazl has long known of the intentions of the warmongers to attack Iran with nuclear weapons. weazl, however, believes that despite the warmongers best intentions, the heightened militarization of Iran may yet prove to be a deterrent. Yet all bets are off with these lunatics).
But how did we get here? Let's take a look. One of the most powerful pieces displaying the Iraqi perpective (narrated in English) was "A message from the Iraqi Resistence" (also available here), produced in 2004. In 2005, Iraqi resistance forces produced "Cowboys in Iraq." Recently, much attention has been given to the shooting down of an Apache Helicopter in Iraq (also available here), but there are many other videos and pictures never presented in mainstream media.
This is not easy material to digest. But full disclosure is important to bring accountability to this criminal operation and place the moral imperative to stop the further carnage as a heightened priority.
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Weaz,
I think maybe you should publicize your blog somewhere other than FPM. The psychos where amusing for a while, but the novelty kind of wears off, and they probably scare off the more thoughtful people who might have something interesting to say.
Yeah, I know it's true. But I haven't mentioned my blog on FPM for over a week. And I know fer shur that people are scared of by the idiocy of the trolls. Problem is that I haven't mentioned my blog on FPM for a while, but the fixated weazl wanna be takes my name, posts absurdities on FPM and then I look as pathetic and idiotic as he is.
But you're 100% correct.
Where have ya been, grunt? We missed ya over here? Anyway, the foremost authority on Civil War stats is Paul Finkelman and I'm pretty sure the number is around 600,000 both sides combined.
And yes, perhaps in Vietnam just like here innocents were killed. But like Vietnam, we were someplace where we didn't belong, guests in someone else's country, and thus our responsiblity for harm done is greater.
Anyway, glad you stopped by again. The boards were missing signs of intelligent life. But I guess c'est la vie.
Doc,
Just as I suspected all along. It's not the Muslims who want to slit my throat, it's you. It's not the Muslims who want to throw me in a gulag, it's you. It's not the Muslims who to kill me, it's you.
So call me a traitor, but there are a billion more Muslims than those who kill innocents, millions of more Arabs. And the Persians living in Iran pose not a threat to me or anything that I cherish. And I stand in solidarity with them against American aggression, just as I pray for the day when, by whatever means necessary, the warmongers finally get the picture that they should bring American troops home and get out of a country in which they are hated, which they have destroyed.
If a traitor means refusing to justify genocide,then I'm a traitor. If a traitor means abstaining from apologizing for aggression, then I'm a traitor. If a traitor means thinking that each of those Iraqi lives being lost is just as important as any American life lost, then I am a traitor.
But in other times, I would've stood against Native Americans being slaughtered, slaves being kept, African American rights denied. Those periods were also shameful parts of America's past. Methinks (I know how much you like that word), this episode will be no less ignominious. With that history and by that definition, I am proud to be your traitor. Just sad that upon exposure to reality, you attack the messenger rather than heed the message.
C'est la vie.
Sounds like you had fun. $50 isn't too much to lose. In another life, I used to measure my winnings or losses in Vegas in four figures, the most fun night being a $1,500 night at the roulette table that allowed me to buy a fourth row seat to the first Tyson-Holyfield fight (paid $900 for $1,500 face value ticket). Those Vegas days are behind me now, but I useta have fun. (useta have a comp card at Excaliber, getting me free hotel rooms et al.) Alas . . .
As Weazl welcomed also those whose English is poor and who are "not up to speed on all the issues" to comment, even I have courage to write something. :)
Weazl's second last message: You're right about this and I value your speech very much.
Weazl's latest message: I'm afraid that this will deflect from the main issue a little but as I'm not up to speed in any of the main issues, I hope Weazl doesn't get angry. $1,500 for a ticket: I think there are better ways to spend money - ways that show solidarity to the oppressed at least symbolically. Anyway, this leads us to what I wanted to ask, your opinion on "symbolic resistance". With the word I mean boycotts and spreading word about those or something like that. For example, my Muslim friends boycot Danish products at the moment and I myself have had this and that on my boycott list over the years (Coke, Nestle, Shell to mention some). I do realize that the effects of the purchases this backwoodswoman makes are on larger scale minor, approximately nothing :(, but if many people did that, it might have some effect. I don't have any scientific proof to my statement, just weak memories of how I read about Nestle stoping marketing baby's milk formula in the 3th world countries, thanks to a boycott. Unfortunately, later I read that Nestle continues marketing in the same way nowadays.
What I'm interested in is that what's your or anyone else's opinion on this symbolic resistance. Do you find it at all significant in any way?
-P-
PS. I hope you understood the do-it-yourself-English of mine. :D
Well, I agree that paying almost a thousand dollars to see men bash each other's brains out isn't showing solidarity with the oppressed. But at that time weazl was a corporate lawyer working in Sillicon Valley working around 70 hours a week with money burning in his pocket back in 1996 when the US wasn't bombing anyone and the technology bubble wasn't even close to bursting.
Things are a bit different now.
But on another note, weazl isn't so much into symbolic gestures, but rather figuring out things that could actually make a difference. To the weaz, symbolic gestures are acts simply to make the people themselves feel better rather than doing something that will actually make the world a better place.
But your English isn't so do-it-yourself. It sounds pretty much the same as the rest of ours. ;-)
Thanks for the answer. 70 hours a week --> that explains a lot ;)
To define: you mean that symbolic gestures don't make a difference or that you just don't like the idea of trying to affect undirectly?
Regards,
grazy-P ;-D
Almost by definition, symbolic gestures don't make a difference.
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