Look at this CNN picture and tell me we are not occupiers

[RetroLounge]

OMFG! Look at this picture from the front page of CNN.



Now, Mr. Bush*, tell me again how the Iraqis are throwing flowers at our feet, you Stupid Chimpy Bastard!

Kids throwing rocks at tanks? Now where have we seen this image before?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. GAZA Strip

Oh and Nam

[izzie]

6. And the congress is going to give our great man who made the mess

THE MONEY and they do not even dare to vote it.

[peekaloo]

2. those are rocks from their flower beds!

same difference. :silly:


and the spin goes on..........

[ParanoidPat]

18. When you harvest your flowers with 'Daisy Cutters'......

.......that's all that's left in the garden. :scared: :evilfrown:

[wickerwoman]

3. "But, but, but...

That child is cheering, exhilarated by the display of kick-ass American technology from which all of Iraq will soon benefit. Any day now. No, really, I swear and if not, it's the UN's fault for not paying for it."

[gandalf]

4. This picture is irrelevant

like every other fact.
If the US occupy the Iraq, or if they liberated the country, if someone is a terrorist, or a freedom fighter, all these distinctions are merely a matter of definitions. This has nothing to do with reality. Very simple.
A long time ago, a George O. has already thought about such a world.

[tom_paine]

5. Imperial Amerika is decidedly Orwellian

oh my yes it is.

But we have much further to go. These are, mostlikely, The Good Old Days.

[grok]

10. It will become your worst nightmare...

If and only if, those in the tank, start shooting back at the kids merely throwing rocks. Then you will be able to say, all is lost. Our children in the tank have totally gone over to the dark side.

Have they? I think not.

Tree

[tom_paine]

14. Agreed. All is not lost yet.

But the long-term prognosis is not good.

[Jacobin]

7. We were jealous of Israel

Now we have our own Gaza strip, and its much much bigger and more violent.

Will they stop at Iraq?

Probably not.

[xray s]

8. That picture explains why Bush's plans will fail

They are not afraid of us.

[grok]

11. do you wish they WERE?

If they were, THAT would be a REAL problem.

grok

[Military Brat]

17. Thomas Paine said ...

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."


Very prescient for someone who lived almost 200 years ago.

[eissa]

9. You silly critics!

The fact that they are throwing rocks only means that we are making progress! It's the same when they kill our soliders. The more they attack, the more we win. Don't you see?! :silly:

[Cat Atomic]

12. Maybe that's a really heavy flower he's throwing.

Maybe?

[RetroLounge]

13. He's throwing what will now be known as an Iraqi Rose

Wait until we start killing the kids...

[Egnever]

21. wow an Iraqi Rose!

Thats good.

I hope we gont get boquets of them. I am afraid we will though.

[nostamj]

15. Senator Ted Steven (INSANE-R, AK) comments:

THOSE ARE NOT ROCKS. THEY ARE NOT EVEN CHILDREN. THEY MAY BE SHORT. THEY ARE SHORT, BUT, THOSE ARE NOT NOT I TELL YOU NOT ROCKS.

PEONIES ARE WHAT I SEE. PEONIES. AND SHORT NOT CHILDREN BUT SHORT I TELL YOU.

THEY THE SHORT THEY KNOW WHAT I KNOW AND I KNOW WE KNEW WHAT THEY HAD THEY KNEW THAT WE KNEW WHAT WE KNEW.

AND THATS WHAT I KNOW

PEONIES!!!!

[nostamj]

16. c'mon.... that's a pretty good Ted Stevens impression...

isn't it?

[maggrwaggr]

19. that's what happens when Israelis set our foreign policy

thanks, Perle and Wolfowitz and ....

[ConsAreLiars]

20. Not the "Israelis"

There are deep divisions there as well as here. The Sharon-Likud/PNAC-RepubliCon alliance was made before the US "election" when Sharon was assured that sabotaging the peace effort would be rewarded with unconditional US support for an all-out attack on the Palestinian resistance. Both rely on religious zealotry, fear and bigotry to pursue a common agenda, and neither of these political forces should be confused with the people of the country they control.