Funny Iraqi Myths About Our Soldiers

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Sarcasticor

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Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: Sarcasticor
Originally posted by: etech
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Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
Originally posted by: Sarcasticor
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: Sarcasticor
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Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: X-Man
But I am telling you to chill out.

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Nice selective enforcement. How come you don't ask folks like Moonbeam to chill out when they start calling anyone who has conservative beliefs a Nazi? Bias much?

X-Man etech made an overtly personal flame outside the issue against the OP because he did not agree with him, that is a personal flame and is prohibited by the rules in this forum. The Nazi's were a political party with a particular indoctrination, to deny their existence by censoring comparisons to them would be to re-write history and be detrimental to development of the thought process. However saying f' you to someone who doesn't agree with your principles is in no way beneficial.


It was a little more than a disagreement. It is utter disgust that someone would find those lies funny and not be able to see the hate that is behind those lies and the group of Iraqis that wish Iraq was still under Saddam's heel.

As for the mods choice of terms in this incident ie. ?Chill out? I learned long ago not to question the mods of AnandTech. If they choose to selectively enforce a rule, that is their prerogative and right and you do not question it. If they choose to call you names in a PM you do not question it. If they choose to nef your PMs you do not question it. If they then choose to delete above mentioned PMs, you do not question it. And since, in the past, I had great respect for the mods of this board and the very difficult job they have to do, I will say no more.

I will say that the Nazis will still exist in history without some brainless idiots comparing other people to them to try and make some worthless insult. It will not rewrite history and certainly won't be detrimental to anyone's thought process for them not to make that ridiculous comparison.

I think you need some kool-aid, perhaps laced with firewater.

Calm down, these "lies" are not exactly lies, unless you can provide exact transcripts in the original comments in the original language, have someone independent translate them and make sure they didn't get it from "british intelligence". And maybe even then there could be doubts because some words can translate into more then one english word.

Or you can just accept that these were individual comments from Iraqis, probably stemming from rumours.

I could rip your reply apart but I really don't feel like getting banned for telling you how stupid your reply is.

Have a nice day.

Of course you could, you just cannot act in a civil manner, too bad, maybe you are very young and your mommy and daddy will teach you?

Have a nice day e-tech.

/sarc


I give civility to those that have earned it.


sandorski
I'm actually quite calm thank you. You may go sheesh somewhere where it may do some good.

No you don't, you give civility to those who agree with you.

No - you just haven't earned it. You'll know when you have.:)

CkG

I came back and reread my post and admit I made a misstatement. I give civility to all of those that have not lost their right to it.

Sarcasticor
You have insulted me and yet I have not insulted you. Think about it.

You gave the reason yourself, you are afraid of getting banned, but give it time, i am sure you will try to insult me eventually.


While you selectively ignore the insults you have already thrown you throw another.

Out of curiosity, which member are you when you aren't using this name?

Sorry, this is my only nick, and i don't see where i insulted you in my last post.

Why do you restrict it to only your last post? Don't you want me to point out the completly uncalled for post where you called me a fool?

Why are you so sure that I would try to insult you? Do you assume that you are not worthy of my civility? If not, you are insulting me by making the false assumption that I would bother with you for no reason. Are you planning on insulting me for no reason some more?

No, you don't have to point out where i called you a fool, actually i said something like "it doesn't take anyone to edit your posts to make you look like a fool".

From what i have read in your posts i have formed a conclusion, a conclusion that no matter what anyone tells you you will never understand that other peoples opinions are as much worth as yours and that you have to prove your facts, not the other way around.

I have a firm belief that my sarcastic remarks will make you insult me sooner or later, is there one single member in this forum that disagrees with your take on the Iraq war that you haven't insulted?

It is not a goal of mine though, let's leave things at that and move on, time will tell what happens in the future.

See you around.
 

CADsortaGUY

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Originally posted by: LunarRay
One cannot or should not have to gain civil response from folks on a forum... that sounds like the rules of some 'buddy' club that excludes members until they are vouched for by a member in good standing. In an open forum even the most outlandish opinion propounded with good intentions ought not be met with the wrath of the right nor the left... it is an opinion, a philosophy earnestly (presumed) held.
Why must a person conform philosophically to the 'bully'? Can't we each have a position and debate the merits rationally? It seems to me that even the least supported ideology should have a place in an open forum. Little agreement but, a place non the less..?

You know exactly what he meant by that. You can play your games with words but if you post a certain way you accept the fact that a similar post may come back at you.
I see you are on a high-horse kick today - any particular reason why? Especially since you seem quite content letting other posts go by un-challenged, post that are by a few buddies in your "club";)

CkG
 

etech

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No, you don't have to point out where i called you a fool, actually i said something like "it doesn't take anyone to edit your posts to make you look like a fool".

From what i have read in your posts i have formed a conclusion, a conclusion that no matter what anyone tells you you will never understand that other peoples opinions are as much worth as yours and that you have to prove your facts, not the other way around.

I have a firm belief that my sarcastic remarks will make you insult me sooner or later, is there one single member in this forum that disagrees with your take on the Iraq war that you haven't insulted?

It is not a goal of mine though, let's leave things at that and move on, time will tell what happens in the future.

See you around.

I still say you sound very familiar espically since you just registered.

Oh well, let the record show that you threw the first insult in this round when I had not even addressed you. You then continued to throw out your insults while I refrained from doing the same to you and still have not responded in your style.

On that note, good night to you.

CADkindaGUY.

I'm not in Lunar's little club, that's all that needs to be said. He and certain others will protest against those that aren't while blindly ignoring those that are. That's the way he plays the game. He learned from his master.

 

sandorski

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rofl, all this because someone didn't find some Iraqi myths funny, which are since they are ridiculous.
 

Moonbeam

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Man, I don't know what you guys are laughing about, this is some serious stuff. The US ministry of disinformation is obviously trying to screw up the Iraqi people's minds. Check this sh!t out:
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 6 -- As an American soldier peered out of a passing tank, a young engineering student and a retired accountant contemplated one of the more common questions on the streets of Baghdad: Did the soldier's wraparound sunglasses give him X-ray vision?

"With those glasses, he can definitely see through women's clothes," said the engineering student, Samer Hamid. "It makes me angry. We are afraid to take our families out on the street."
Yeah, sure it does, Omar, what it really does is make you afraid to stick an AK47 under your shirt and try and assassinate one of our men. Those dumb bunnies will be afraid to carry a knife for fear of getting their head blown off. Hurray USA.
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"The retired accountant, Hekmet Tinber Hassan, smiled and said it was a baseless rumor, just like the widespread story that Saddam Hussein had been secretly working for America and was now at a C.I.A. safe house. "I do not believe Saddam is in America," Mr. Hassan said. "I heard he went to Tel Aviv."

Damn right Saddam's working for the CIA. Saddam's still there and he's our man. Tow the line you Iraqi scum. AHAHAHAHAHA, those poor bastards, due to misinformation, will run sh!tless to do exactly as they're told. Smart move CIA.
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"Just as truth is the first casualty of war, urban legends seem to be the first creation of a military occupation, especially when the cultural gap is as wide as it is here. After life under Mr. Hussein, people here are accustomed to conspiracy theories and ready to believe the worst about anyone in power."

Exactly and the ministry of disinformations knows just how to use that to our advantage. Those poor chumps.
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"Of course, Americans have been circulating their own kinds of legends, starting with the fantasies a few months ago that the occupying troops would be peacefully welcomed by a nation of grateful flower-waving citizens. But there have been more guns than flowers. In the urban legends flourishing here, the soldiers triumphed thanks to Mr. Hussein's treachery and to American technology. The legend about the X-ray sunglasses may have evolved from reports about the soldiers' night-vision goggles, or maybe just from the imposing Terminator image of the soldiers."

Damn tooten man, resistance is futile. You got terminator on your ass. Jesus they'll just give up. Isn't it great. Man these legends are all working for us. Bless the Dept of Misinfo.
They're a bunch of geniuses.
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"Compared with the residents, who cope with 120-degree heat by staying in the shade and dressing in light clothes and sandals, the soldiers have the look of robotic aliens as they patrol in the midday sun wearing combat boots, helmets and armored vests."

Some Iraqis say the soldiers take special pills that keep them cool, but the most common theory is that they have portable air-conditioners -- usually said to be inside the vests, but sometimes placed in the helmet or even the underwear.

"There is fluid circulating throughout the underwear," said Mr. Hamid, the engineering student. "I am not sure of the exact mechanism, but we all know the Americans have very sophisticated technology."

Aadel Delli, the owner of a food market in downtown Baghdad, said he did not believe the air-conditioned-uniform stories, which he attributed to popular doubts about Americans' capacity for discomfort. "Most Iraqis thought the American soldiers would be gone by now because they could never stand the summer in Iraq," he said. "

You'd be nuts to fight a guy who's cool. War at 120 vs 60 is hell. AHAHAHAHAHA the asses think we're cool. What a bunch of dopes. Double geniuses, I say. All Hail the DMI.
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"When they are not peering through women's clothes, the male soldiers are said to be groping underneath the clothes during searches at checkpoints, supposedly provoking some of the attacks on soldiers. (Never mind the absence of evidence for this theory.)"

Good move they'll be afraid to try to Hide any sh!t.
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"Other versions of the ugly-American stories have the soldiers drinking beer (or sometimes Kool-Aid laced with alcohol) inside their tanks near mosques. They have been accused in the Arab press of using pages from the Koran for toilet paper and of giving children candy packets containing pornography."

Great, even God can't harm our men.
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"The rumors became so numerous that Al Sabah, a new daily paper run by Iraqis with financial backing from the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American-run administrative organization, printed a supplement debunking them. "It will take awhile for people to reject the conspiracy theories," said its editor, Ismael Zayer. "Under Saddam, people had to depend on rumor because they could not trust the media."

Fabulous, they'll trust in the horse poo we secretly feed them from the DMI
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"Some of the stories seem intended to encourage the fighters who have been attacking Americans. G.I.'s are said to be so demoralized that 30 percent of them have already abandoned their posts and paid $600 apiece to escape by an underground railroad to Turkey or Syria.

Others have supposedly converted to Islam and fled to marry women in Saudi Arabia. There are also rumors that Americans are hiding their casualties by dumping large numbers of soldiers' bodies each night into the Tigris River."

Hehe, cognitive dissonance, man what a trick. Let them think there's hope and then see the troops solid as cool superock in the streets.The contradictions will blow their poor feeble minds.

Man when it comes to psychological war the US is par excellence number one. Iraq's been conquered by gods.
 

LunarRay

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Well they keep trying to kill the gods that plague their life... Don't they realize they are free. So what if we sneek a peek or guzzle a brew in the confines of our metal tents... As soon as we teach them to be free and multiply they will love us for what we are ... their saviours.
Allah Akbar... American Akbar... Oil is haram... wealth is haram (or however it is spelt)

Moonmeister, Like Pavlov and Skinner may have said.. when the bell rings the mouth waters and it is a mazing...
 

sillymofo

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Man... if you mofos would quit this quoting shiets and just type the name to reply.... that would save a lot of phuking space.
 

etech

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Moonie, I'm not surprised that you would make one of your posts about this subject.

You have shown your total lack of concern and respect for our troops by spreading lies about them in the past.
 

etech

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Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Much ado about nothing.

Our troops are nothing? Spreading lies about them is nothing?

I see you have been taking lessons from moonie.

 

etech

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Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Much ado about nothing.

Our troops are nothing? Spreading lies about them is nothing?

I see you have been taking lessons from moonie.

Sticks and Stones...

Sticks and stones and deliberate lies about our soliders can get them killed. Raising the level of animosity in a country that like Iraq is not funny. That is a very flippant attitude you have towards them.

 

DaiShan

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Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Much ado about nothing.

Our troops are nothing? Spreading lies about them is nothing?

I see you have been taking lessons from moonie.

Sticks and Stones...

Sticks and stones and deliberate lies about our soliders can get them killed. Raising the level of animosity in a country that like Iraq is not funny. That is a very flippant attitude you have towards them.

Yes I do. Propaganda has been around since ancient times, and it goes both ways, if you want to complain about these lies then complain about the same lies the United States has propagated. "My country right or wrong my country" eh?
 

Moonbeam

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Originally posted by: etech
Moonie, I'm not surprised that you would make one of your posts about this subject.

You have shown your total lack of concern and respect for our troops by spreading lies about them in the past.
Hehe, that's a good one. What I have shown and continue to show is that your opinion about what it means to demonstrate concern and respect are a farce. You are a program, a robot, not a free functioning entity capable of rational thought. You are a rut monger that plays the same record over and over. You are a deranged, flag waving, patriotic, hypertrophic zealot. You make a mockery of patriotism. You're so full of yourself, wherever you puke is where you are. You are a shrill ranting loon running after your tail. "Mommy, Mommy, MonstaThrilla laughed at our troops. Yes. yes, really he did. You need to punish him, Mommy, like you do me when I'm bad. Oh, please punish him Mommy, I can't live with this pain. Our troops might die and it will all be his fault. They are spreading horrible lies, oh no, horrible, horrible lies. I have to make them stop. I will bully them to make them stop. I'll make them feel ashamed, Mommy, like you made me." Your kind of sick love of country makes the world hate us. You are our own worst enemy, the mirror image of the foreign fanatic. See a doctor, take a pill. What you call serious, etech, if a ridiculous joke, not the thing itself, but what you bring to it. Trust me, I know. I used to be like you before I got help. When you look in your mirror you see me. :D

Before we can care, we have to ask what caring is?

 

Moonbeam

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Every time I look at those wacked out Iraqis believing in all those superstitious urban lies I think to myself, you know, self, it's the same with everything we was taught and believed without thought. Those poor dumb dangerous Iraqis are us, you and me, self. Damn, what if everybody's like that? Nah, that can't be can it? Nah, that can't be.
 

MonstaThrilla

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Good lord. I can't believe my little thread became such a mess.

I just wanted to post a lighthearted, quirky story on x-ray glasses and watercooled underwear, but apparently that's still too outrageously unpatriotic in this day and age...

:eek:
 

CADsortaGUY

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Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Good lord. I can't believe my little thread became such a mess.

I just wanted to post a lighthearted, quirky story on x-ray glasses and watercooled underwear, but apparently that's still too outrageously unpatriotic in this day and age...

:eek:

No - the humor about our military isn't unpatriotic. The problem is that is just another post on top of others that seem to dis America and American troops. This individual topic doesn't make someone unpatriotic but this one in combo with the rest of the topics shows a trend of hatred toward America, America's troops, and America's Gov't.

I found it funny on the surface, but the deeper issue isn't very funny.

All about context. :D

CkG
 

Moonbeam

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Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Good lord. I can't believe my little thread became such a mess.

I just wanted to post a lighthearted, quirky story on x-ray glasses and watercooled underwear, but apparently that's still too outrageously unpatriotic in this day and age...

:eek:
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. You can't fool the genius Caddy with that. He sees your deeper purpose cause his head's up in his ass. He's got it right from Joseph McCarthy what you're up to. You ain't fooling anybody with that.

I remember wandering away from the crowd on a tour of a Med Research Hospital one time. I could never stay on track. I opened a door to the primate research lab and stepped inside. Ten thousand monkeys hit their cage doors screaming and shacking their bars. Forty thousand canine teeth were bared at me. It was so profoundly sad. It's where I first saw hate in its raw state. A monkey in a cage is no gentleman at all. The thing about freedom, though, is that you don't see the cage. We have no idea why we rage.

 

LunarRay

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So this is why they put bad folks in cages... to make them happy again.. dang that evolutionary leap.. too far too fast... we must revist the past..
 

CADsortaGUY

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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Good lord. I can't believe my little thread became such a mess.

I just wanted to post a lighthearted, quirky story on x-ray glasses and watercooled underwear, but apparently that's still too outrageously unpatriotic in this day and age...

:eek:
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. You can't fool the genius Caddy with that. He sees your deeper purpose cause his head's up in his ass. He's got it right from Joseph McCarthy what you're up to. You ain't fooling anybody with that.

I remember wandering away from the crowd on a tour of a Med Research Hospital one time. I could never stay on track. I opened a door to the primate research lab and stepped inside. Ten thousand monkeys hit their cage doors screaming and shacking their bars. Forty thousand canine teeth were bared at me. It was so profoundly sad. It's where I first saw hate in its raw state. A monkey in a cage is no gentleman at all. The thing about freedom, though, is that you don't see the cage. We have no idea why we rage.

There goes Moony jumping to conclusions again. I'm not accusing any particular person of anything. Look at the topics headers - see the hate? You are blind if you don't understand the underlying hate that seems drive people to post such things.

Hehe - you wandered away during your facilities tour? I guess the supervision at that "hospital" wasn't adequate. Maybe that's why you weren't enrolled there.:D

BTW - do you get off talking about people's asses all the time?

Now waddle away - troll.

CkG
 

LunarRay

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Ah... another indication of CADaracts.. this is when one sees but what they see is not what is.
 

etech

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I think some of the people defending these "jokes" would also be the type to enjoy racist jokes. The have the same intent, to harm and distort the truth about a body of people. In this case it is our soliders in Iraq.

So what do you say moonie, you thought they were funny. Do you also stand around the water cooler at the post office and tell jokes about watermelons and fried chicken? Got any Polock jokes for us? How about an American solider in Iraq using his X-Ray vision to see a Muslims women's underware? Wow, that would be hilarous to you wouldn't it.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Much ado about nothing.

Our troops are nothing? Spreading lies about them is nothing?

I see you have been taking lessons from moonie.

Well, my reply to this was going to be a little more harsh. I can always save that for later though.


Moonbeam... I like Moonbeam, quite a lot. He says quite a bit, although the testosterone level often gets too high to see his point. Often posters make his point for him, which I always find amusing. He has quite the style to get responses, and get people thinking. Sometimes he gets people pissed off, and at least if he can't get people to think, he can get them to feel. Do he and I see eye on everything? No, hardly. I am sure we have different viewpoints of the world, being different people. Do I feel the need to agree with him? No. However, I can respect him, because I see what he is getting at. At worst he makes me chuckle. The neocon contingent does that too, but for different reasons. You want to compare me to Moonbeam? Thank you for the compliment. Moonbeam does not have to hold his head in shame as some ought, who hypocritically wail about jokes that the GI's are themselves laughing at (they have a better sense of humor than many here), while neglecting to mention that they supported and still support a policy and President who were a sham. A President who decided it was his right to attack Iraqi's for an imagined and hoped for threat. They sent these soldiers to die, and then had the temerity to say that was their obligation to fight and die. Well, yes it is, but the omitted other half of that obligation of the President to use them only when and where NEEDED. They were not needed. Oh, we liberated Iraq? Well what gave GWB the power of God to take life and death when not needed. HE decided what to do. HE went to war, with it being all about WMD's and Saddam. Well you never make a war on a man. You make war on a country. Bush wanted it. You wanted it. You wanted those soldiers where they are. You wanted them put where they would be shot. You and Bush and all of that ilk wanted just what you got. Well, some of us here did not. Some knew we hadn't a real substantial reason for this war. Violations this, sanctions that. When push came to shove, an unpaid parking ticket would have done it, and liberation the justification afterwards. I happen to care a great deal for our soldiers, with more reason than I am prepared to share with you. As far as Moonbeam goes, he is a far greater patriot than those waving the flag urging and indeed lusting for death in Iraq who then complain because they got what they wanted. He didnt want them dead to begin with.
 

Sarcasticor

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Originally posted by: etech
I think some of the people defending these "jokes" would also be the type to enjoy racist jokes. The have the same intent, to harm and distort the truth about a body of people. In this case it is our soliders in Iraq.

So what do you say moonie, you thought they were funny. Do you also stand around the water cooler at the post office and tell jokes about watermelons and fried chicken? Got any Polock jokes for us? How about an American solider in Iraq using his X-Ray vision to see a Muslims women's underware? Wow, that would be hilarous to you wouldn't it.

If anything, these statements are insulting to the people who said them. To blow this out of proportion as you have done and make statements about how it is "unpatriotic" to think they are funny says a lot about you.

You never miss a chance to attack your percieved enemy, even if it means you are just chasing ghosts.

Now chill out, have a beer and relax, the sky isn't falling because ignorant people believe in myths.

Just out of curiosity, who is it that you think i am?

 

etech

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Moonie does has an attraction for the young and the gullible.

There are some on this board who are taken in by his desperate need to sound intelligent by his use of excess verbiage and his psycho-babble.

If that is what floats your boat, his style over substance, than by all means, insert your head as far as it will go.