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“Tales of Curge and Sackerfice in the War on Turr”

Our fearless chickenhawk leader, Chimpy McHitlerburton, invokes God in support of rightwing nutjob Milblog conference! Let us follow him blindly! 

Milblog conf site here.

Gateway liveblogging.

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Sorry I couldn’t make it, would have enjoyed meeting you all.

Topics: blogs, military

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:13 am on Saturday, May 5, 2007

19 Responses to ““Tales of Curge and Sackerfice in the War on Turr””

1. heather Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

   I remember seeing a news photo of a little Vietnamese girl running down the road, because she had been/was being attacked with napalm. That was the iconic photo of the Vietnam war, the one that decided a lot of people that this was was an immoral one, and that the USA should GET OUT.

   Well, a moment ago, I saw the photos (not the video) of the little Kurdish girl who was stoned to death last month, for having a boyfriend. This occurred in the Oh So Civilized KURDISH NORTH, the place where all is brightness and light and civilized.

   I am a real supporter of this war in Iraq. However. If we were not dependent upon that oil, I would say, GET OUT NOW, and let those barbarians get on with herding their goats, and stoning teenagers.

   It’s time to get the placards out: DRILL ANWAR; and MORE NUKE (reactors) PLEASE!!!

2. Dadmanly Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

   Yeah, you would have!

   Thanks for all the good links. I would have liked to see you mix it up with the PAO folks, or Noah Shachtman from Wired, or Marc Danziger…

   Great turn out, yes, we are ready to follow the Chimpmeister blindly!

   Onward mindless hypnotized indoctrinted doctrinaires!

3. bdfaith Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

   Didn’t know I was gonna but I had a Dog at the conference. Check out antimedia’s posts at http://www.oldwardogs.us/2007/05/the_second_annu.html and http://www.oldwardogs.us/2007/05/session_iii_mil.html.

4. Jules Crittenden Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

   Hoist one for me! Heck, hoist five!

5. El Cid Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

   A Pilsner Urquell raised to you Jules.

   Jules, your link at LGF under anti-idiotarians is dated January 17, 2007. There probaby a ton of folks over there that would be completely spellbound with YOUR..I was there, war reports.

   Gee, I have to get you another Urquell, Jules.

6. Donald Douglas Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

   I thought I pass along this post I wrote this morning reviewing an academic political science article arguing the feasibility of a preventive attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The authors, writing in International Security, don’t advocate an air assualt on Iran’s strategic developmental nodes, they just analyze the potential for a successful incursion, using the 1981 Osirak strike as a benchmark. I cited one of your earlier commentaries on Iran’s weapons programs in my entry, so I thought you might be interested.

   Thanks in advance and check it out:

   http://burkeanreflections.blogspot.com/2007/05/assessing-israeli-capabilities-for.html

   Take care and keep up your great work!

7. Jules Crittenden Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   Those Urquells are making a good cleansing lager between Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout and Newcastle Brown Ale black and tans I’m knocking back. The more I have, the better that Osirak thing sounds! What’s the hold up!

8. El Cid Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

   What’s the hold up!

   On the Urquells or the Osirak modeled strike?

   Well just got back from purchasing another 24 (need to get through the weekend) and I’m ready for some smoked mullah..err mullet.

9. Purple Avenger Says:
   May 5th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

   I believe the stoning was animist Azeris, not Kurds. The Azeris are low single digit percentage of the population

10. The_Real_JeffS Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

    Awesome video! Wish I had been there, blogger or not.

11. heather Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am

    Purple Avenger, the story says that the local law enforcement stood aside while the whole show was going on.

    So this bunch of BARBARIANS may be a very small group of ‘Aseris’ whatever they are… be they were allowed to carry through with the murder. By the representatives of the Kurdish government.

12. TMLutas Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 4:30 am

    heather - The tragedy of stonings, honor killings, among a host of other social pathologies are endemic to the ME. The practices will either shrink or spread and the opening up of their societies, the connection to our own, are the best hope humanity has of them shrinking. Would you trade engagement over 10 years to a ME where stonings take place for a 50% drop in stonings in that area? I would and I hope you would too.

13. Terrye Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 6:56 am

    heather:

    There are some very sophisticated people in the Kurdish North who have nothing to do with these kinds of activities. There are places right here in the United States where someone can be killed and people do not interfere, that does not mean all Americans condone murder.

    The truth is right here in the US there were lynchings well into the 20th century decades after the Civil War. And in India, in some remote areas there are still cases in which young widows are burned on their dead husbands’ funeral pyres. The point is these things do not stop because people just give up and walk away, they stop because a majority of people reject the practices. That will not happen if we just ignore it.

    The same kind of cases could be made for females genital mutilation among some more backward elements in both Africa and the ME.

14. JabbaTheTutt Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    I remember seeing a news photo of a little Vietnamese girl running down the road, because she had been/was being attacked with napalm. That was the iconic photo of the Vietnam war, the one that decided a lot of people that this was was an immoral one, and that the USA should GET OUT.

    Gee, and you never saw the pictures of the Viet Cong torturing and murdering people. You never saw the pictures of the North Vietnamese concentration camps. This is why God gave us reason as well as emotions, to think and make decisions based rationality and facts. Those emotional people who decided on the basis of a picture that the war was immoral got their wish. The US left and after the US left, the commies murdered 3 million plus people, drove another million plus out of the country, including if I recall correctly, that little girl from the picture. I believe she lives in San Diego area.

    So, a girl gets stoned to death for barbaric reasons. We have honor killings in Berlin and throughout Europe. This is but a minor example of the feelings of liberals. The terrorists conduct horrific car bomb attacks on civilians in marketplaces and mosques. The US should leave, because the terrorists are killers. It doesn’t make sense to me.

15. Grimmy Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    Yeah, heather. Running away and hiding always makes bad things better, doesn’t it? Why ever try if it’s going to be difficult?

    After all, everyone would be nice to us if we’d just be nice to them first, right?

16. see Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    Interesting coda to that little Vietnamese girl story. She defected to Canada to escape Communism.

17. RebeccaH Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    Warsteiner Dunkel.

18. heather Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    In Zimbabwe, the farms and other belongings of ‘white’ citizens have been seized by the government leader and given to his friends and relatives. In Darfur, there is a war going on which is fueled at least partially, by a resurgent slave trade in that part of the world The Sudan’s entire economy was once based on slave trading, and I guess their citizenry are going back to the tried and the true. At the high point of the British Empire, people like Gordon of Khartoum attempted to break that trade… but note what happened to Gordon.

    Neither of these really worry me… or any of you either. So why on earth do I obsess about Islam and the ME? Because of OIL. Oil fuels MY civilization. Every time any of us buys or uses oil, we are paying a tribute to Allah’s people. And Allah’s people are RICH. They can afford to do things that Sudanese slave traders and Mugabe can only dream of doing. Strung across North America are mosques built and funded by the Saudis. For gracious sake, there is a wahhabi mosque in Calgary Alberta (or so boasts the King of Saudi Arabia). The universities are swimming in gold from the Middle East.

    Now, we can carry on about Bush and Haliburton, but it’s much better to get real. At this point in history, we have no viable alternative to oil, or at least nothing that will keep our standard of living as high as we are accustomed to having it. We are at the mercy of those head-hacking people who shelter within their borders men who stone girls to death. And these interesting cultural folkways are part and parcel of the Islamic religion/law, implicitly supported by the majority of people who are Muslim TODAY (not yesterday, in 1920s USA, or 600BC in Judea, or 500AD in Denmark). Otherwise, why did the law enforcement people stand by, watching a girl be murdered by her male relatives? Have any of those murderers been charged with murder by the Kurdish “government.”? I think not.

    The only countries presently capable of sustained effort in fending off this tide are: the USA and Australia. Canada is doing well in Afghanistan now (and will do so as long as Harper is in charge… I think). Great Britain is no longer Great, nor is it “Britain”: it is little England on welfare, and its hero is Mr. Bean. Forget the rest of Europe: they can barely cover their own pension plans. As to India? Well, they are trying to manage a race into the 21st century. China? It puts up with Islamists for about 2 minutes.

    So the present military effort will only go so far.

    The final answer will have to be: an alternative to oil. When the wood ran out in Britain, they moved onto coal. Well, we must take an equivalent move. And sooner rather than later.

19. AW1 Tim Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    Jules,

    It was an awesome conference. We had a nice 45 minute or so conference call with Admiral West that was very interesting.

    Noah was a bit of a douche, and his prattling on with patronizing little drivelets really wore me thin. I had to walk out and cool down for a mite.

    Anyway, you would have enjoyed it. Not only was the company great, but there was much destruction of brain cells afterwards, and many a bachnallian act being under-reported by attendees…..

    Respects,

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