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January 23, 2005

No sense of irony ...

... is offered by Jackie Spinner, a Berkeley-graduate writer, (ooo..who could see that coming?) of this deadly earnest article

The day after the soldiers came, Imaad ordered his mother to go through her refrigerator and pantry and throw out all the cheese that had been made outside Iraq. He went around and collected any images of Westerners in the house, threw them in a pile and burned them until they were floating bits of ash. He struck his mother repeatedly and forbade her to watch foreign news or movie channels on their new television.

The Americans were "the devil," Imaad ranted.

Omigawd. What horrors, what tortures did the "devil" American soldiers inflict on the hapless Imaad that made him slap the crap out of his mother?
The soldiers went to search his bedroom. He heard laughing, and then they called for him, he said. Imaad went to his room and saw that the soldiers had found several magazines he kept hidden from his mother. They had pictures of girls in swimsuits and erotic poses. Imaad said the soldiers spread the magazines on his bed and put his Koran in the middle.

"This is a good match," Imaad said one of the soldiers told him.

"It was a nightmare," he said. "I will never forget those bad soldiers when they put the Koran among the magazines."

Someone alert the International Red Cross! The devil Americans mocked Imaad's porn! Can we blame him for beating his mother under such horrible conditions? Can the Ramsey Clark team be far behind in bringing suit on his behalf charged Devil Americans with warcrimes? How dare the infidel mock a moslem ...

Actually, brilliant mocking of deadly Jackie is can be found at Tim Blair's and scintillating satire at Iowahawk's.

I'm hoping this really takes off and the brain-dead editor at WaPo who let Spinner's article through is more than just a bit red-faced.

Posted by Darleen at January 23, 2005 07:20 PM

Comments

Hi Darleen, I was all set to hunt down an email contact for Spinner and nail her to the wall with my most venomous remarks when I found an article at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35954-2004Dec4.html

that seems to praise the soldiers for bringing peace to a village.

Using 20/20 hindsight it might be this article will reach the right people in the military and they will teach the soldiers how to use a bit more finesse when conducting such raids in the future. As I see it, the problem is the Americans exposed a weakness in the friend turned foe and he directed his anger toward them instead of looking inward. Also, the Americans should have been more sensitive to the high regard with which Islamics revere the Quran. The misguided man would NEVER have placed the Quran in the vicinity of those magazines and by doing so the Americans gave the impression of "defiling" a HOLY BOOK.

I would rather Spinner had mailed this article to a high command officer in the military and left it out of the newspaper. It would have done more good there, but her other article at least partially vindicates her.


P.S. If I click on preview to look at my dribble, I cannot click post and have it work properly. I have to skip the preview and hope it looks okay.????

Posted by: Morgan at January 25, 2005 11:18 AM

Hi Darleen, I was all set to hunt down an email contact for Spinner and nail her to the wall with my most venomous remarks when I found an article at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35954-2004Dec4.html

that seems to praise the soldiers for bringing peace to a village.

Using 20/20 hindsight it might be this article will reach the right people in the military and they will teach the soldiers how to use a bit more finesse when conducting such raids in the future. As I see it, the problem is the Americans exposed a weakness in the friend turned foe and he directed his anger toward them instead of looking inward. Also, the Americans should have been more sensitive to the high regard with which Islamics revere the Quran. The misguided man would NEVER have placed the Quran in the vicinity of those magazines and by doing so the Americans gave the impression of "defiling" a HOLY BOOK.

I would rather Spinner had mailed this article to a high command officer in the military and left it out of the newspaper. It would have done more good there, but her other article at least partially vindicates her.

Posted by: Morgan at January 25, 2005 11:20 AM

Sorry 'bout the double post. My Netscape does not work well on your site. I came back with IE and was able to see my posts that did not show with NS. I prefer NS for several reasons. There are so many worms, hacks and other junk out there that take aim at holes in IE but don't seem to bother with NS because so few people use it.

Posted by: Morgan Painter at January 25, 2005 11:55 AM