Khan Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 In the North American press a comma usually takes he place of 'and' although I've no idea why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Yah, now that I look at it, the headline is a grammar nightmare. Guess they don't hire good writers these days.EDIT:Kurdish girl stoned to death, mob films it on cameraphones (videos)Looks like the Religion of Peace strikes again. Good to see democracy and law in Iraq.Wait, that's not happening after 5 years? But Bush said it would happen!Also in Germany there was a court case where a woman wanted to divorce her husband because he beat her. The judge ruled that she couldn't because the Koran says that it is OK to beat your wife.EDIT: Stoning to death of girl provokes wave of killings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Seems it wasnt done by the followers of the Religeon of Peace, as you put it, but those opposed to her relationship with someone who was from that religeon.Either way, its sickening to hear of. Am about to see if I can watch the videos, but am not sure I will go through with it. :-dash...I watched aobut 10 seconds..she is moving around, obviously a real person, seemingly hurt. Knowing what they said happens, I havent got the stomache to watch. Some things are best ignored.I dont think I can watch a defenseless woman die like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egeides Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I think that I've never seen more heart wrenching images.It looks barbaric like nothing else. Can't say that imperial does better, but it's just plain barbaric.Unleash the ugly on a large scale, and it gives chaos on the smale scale all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 You watched it all ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egeides Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 All that was on that site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 And how was it ? You actually watched her die ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 It wasn't as bad as you'd think. You just see a bloody person laying on the ground with shaking cameraphone and a bunch of kurds yelling. it's not high quality or up close video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 But to see someone alive and then being killed, grainy or not, its the knowing of what these things (the men) are doing.And to watch it. The poor woman being killed. Shit I cant watch an animal being killed like that, let alone a bunch of guys killing a woman. I imagine if that was someone I knew... :-[ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Video on war profiteering in Iraq 4 minutes.Short video of people saying how companies are profiting in Iraq.$100 to wash a bag of laundry, blow up trucks instead of replacing a tire...Cheney says Iraq going well; Iraq says otherwiseMy guess is he meant that his profits from Iraq are doing well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egeides Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I think that everyone is missing the big picture here and there's a problem of time frame. It's not post-9/11 W.Bush. Look to this, well into it in 1991:"Are you the black sheep of the family?" Queen Elizabeth asked him. "I guess that might be true," he said. "Well, I guess all families have one," she replied. He asked her who the black sheep was in her family.(http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/05/10/queen_bush/index.html?source=newsletter)It all started much earlier than everyone frames it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Iraqi kindergarten: Smiles and vows to fight Americans"I'm going to bomb, bomb, bomb the school with everybody in it," said Omar Hussein, as he clutched a pink toy airplane.At another point, a girl enthusiastically sang, "I give a knife to my father to slaughter the chicken. He gives me a machine gun and a rifle. Now, I am a soldier in the liberation army."The same kindergarten taught up to 180 children just four years ago, before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein. Today, the class has just 16 children, a result of families fleeing the war or parents keeping their children at home, fearful of bombs or kidnap gangs.Good job. Bush is making Saddam Hussein look like a very nice person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 Comparitively, he was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 A video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomising a female detainee occurred at Abu GhraibToo bad they didn't release the video to discredit the war even more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caid Ivik Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I've just read on SME that Golden Mosque in Samarra will be rebuild trough UNESCO fund, do you have any info anyone about it, if it'll be supportable worldwide or so?Too bad they didn't release the video to discredit the war even more.I would say such things discredit the army, not the war it is fightning in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatar Khan Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I don't have the infromation but I know that it has been mentioned along with historic Babylon as the sites of major reconstruction and restoration in Iraq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos45 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Fort Lewis to no longer have individual memorial services due to the volume of troop deaths, instead it will settle for monthly mass funerals.This is the third such military base to consolidate services due to casualty rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 It would kinda be depressing having a memorial service every weekday. The flag would be at half mast all year long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dude_Doc Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.htmlandhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20070717-3.html ...looks very democratic and constitutional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Your second link was cut off. And as far as I can tell it was the same link.I posted the link in the George bush worst president thread earlier :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos45 Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Your second link was cut off. And as far as I can tell it was the same link.I posted the link in the George bush worst president thread earlier :)He has a typo in whitheouse.gov is his problem. I think I know what it was going to be though, the Executive Order to seize property of those who knowingly or unknowingly support anti-American Iraqi elements.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Yes. And they are both the same links in his post even if the second one were posted correctly. They both end in "20070717-3.html" which means they are the same thing. I don't understand why it was posted twice but the second link was screwed up with the ... in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos45 Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 I dunno Andrew, I just noticed my own link has become like Andrew's, despite my lack of editing it. I then did edit it, and it reverted back to the wrong form...strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dude_Doc Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Well, I guess there are no explanation for it :) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 It was one of our spelling checks. Nema added teh => the and it wasn't checking "whole" words so it would change teh if it found it within a word. I removed it for now so it should be working again. This just goes to show you how picky Nema can be when it comes to spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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