JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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TooFarGone
Kurdish Media has reports which - gasp - contradict those of their Western peers:
"Nobody claims that President Bush is flawless or that he should not be criticized. In fact almost every American journalist including the one from his own party rightfully criticize him on a regular basis for his mistakes. However, compare to Saddam whom he removed from power, President Bush is actually a saint. President Bush did not feel insulted and even made a joke about the size of the thrown shoes, which might indicate his mental fitness. I am wondering if the angry man had thrown his shoes at Saddam, would he or any of his family members had been allowed to live any longer; probably not." http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=15287
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TooFarGone
A headline that had to be;the deadwood media needs to blame someone for their demise. May as well be Bush.
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TooFarGone
Muntadar al-Zeidi was "kidnapped" in 2007 and released unharmed, no ransom paid. Picked up on a Baghdad street by his "brother."
He's a fraud.
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TooFarGone
Same old hudna.
Mohammed himself said it, and it remains in the Koran:
"War is deception."
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TooFarGone
smithinjapan;
"it [Iraq] is, if anything, a fledgling democracy, and may never see the day that it becomes an honest-to-god real one."
Good point there. But we could say the same of Canada, or of the Japan you consistently bash.
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TooFarGone
likeitis:you,betzee and leimotiv make a good argument that if the Iraqi people are ready for a free and inquisitive press, even a raucous shoe-tossing one, then maybe they really are - brace yourself here - ready for democracy.
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TooFarGone
Here is your link, likeitis. Enjoy
http://eyeraki.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html
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TooFarGone
Poor Democrats. Blago is the latest Bull Conner for this pathetic, once-great party.
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TooFarGone
More of Baghdad Bob, Saddam mouthpiece and, judging from what B flag, cleo, smithjapan and friends have vented here, apparently some kind of proto-Lefty:
"We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."
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TooFarGone
Freedom of speech is a great thing. So is the US-created internet. Article states that the shoe tosser is a correspondnet for a Cairo-based station, Al-Baghdadiya. That's rich, when you consider Egypt's human rights abuses and routine crackdowns on journalists and bloggers.
A search turns up some interesting stuff, from an Iraqi blogger.
Yes, I know the international Left disputes the idea that an ordinary citizen should be allowed to publish views on things like media and political discourse.
That's why I post this:
Monday, January 15, 2007 Al-Baghdadiya
Today, there are over a dozen Iraqi sattelite channels that are broadcasting from inside and outside Iraq. We have all sorts of channels, some that broadcast only a few hours a day, others 24/7. Some that are funded by the US, others that condemn American presence and even show footage of attacks on American soldiers. Some that represent ethnic groups in Iraq, others sects. Some broadcast from Iraq, others from outside.
I dont generally spend much time watching most of these channels, but i do flick through them every now and then. The other day I was watching the "news" on Al-Baghdadiya, a channel that broadcasts from Egypt. It was showing Iraqi's in Ramadi complaining about the American seige on the city (that started about 3 weeks ago). It was the funniest thing i have ever seen on an Iraqi channel, of course the conditions that the people in that city are living in are nothing to laugh about, but what was comic was the fact that the people being interviewed were being coached to say what the reporter wanted them to say. You can even hear the reporter saying "say there is no government" and an old women then says "There is no government here, they dont care about us", then the reporter says "petrol"...and the women says "we dont have petrol here in the city, its hard to get around'. The reporter then says "American occupation" and the women than rants about the Americans who are besieging the city.
"Eye raki"
Monday, January 15, 2007
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TooFarGone
Funny watching the same Lefties who were undoubtedly furious that a US soldiers put his fingers in Saddam's mouth - dude, that's a major insult in the Arab world! - come here green with envy at an Iraqi reporter (working for a Cairo-based station - LOL, no irony there, eh?) able, in a press conference, to throw a shoe at a patriotic Republican American.
BDS is a far greater threat to this world than "global warming" will ever be...
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TooFarGone
Me too.
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TooFarGone
Freedom of speech is a great thing.
An Iraqi blogger comments on this affair:
...See, I will forever remain indebted to President George W. Bush. He is my hero. He liberated Iraq, and that's how I will always see it. Had there been no President Bush, then Saddam would still be Saddam.
The usual suspects are ecstatic over what happened, especially the US-based media and Iraq-watchers. I would like to beat them all up too, but I think that would be a tad bit excessive. The best revenge is to make them watch Iraq's democracy strengthen and prosper. Today's images gave them a temporary high; a new Iraq, free and democratic, something they believed would never happen, will gnaw at their insides for the rest of their lives. I'll settle for that.
Give it twenty years or so, but a main thoroughfare in Baghdad will be called George Bush Avenue. Or maybe that's just the name of my driveway. Anyway, there will be a big sign and all.
http://talismangate.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-bush-avenue.html
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TooFarGone
Gotta hand it to this ungrateful, resentful shoe-chucking guy; he's braver than the ingrates and tossers in Europe and Canada.
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TooFarGone
Since he can't get specific this is as meaningless as all the other talking points that his handlers put on his teleprompter.
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TooFarGone
Funny. The best 'defense' of Bush's use of military might comes from Obama, who has retained Robert M Gates as Sec of Defense.
Liken' that change, suckers?
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TooFarGone
So why can't you name even one of "them" ?
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TooFarGone
Who are they? Do they have a secret handshake? If you will not name them it can only mean you too do their bidding.
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TooFarGone
CBC documentary declares global warming doomsday has been called off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr5O1HsTVgA
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TooFarGone
If you're a Lefty and one of these anti-globalization dingbats opposed to free markets and to the entrepreneurial spirit that has made America the most powerful nation in history just let me say:Your i-pod defeats any argument you try to come here with.
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