Re: Haditha..."Don't you remember Arab kids cheering after 9/11?"

[Bluebear]

"The children were cheering, dancing on cars and eating chocolate! And you feel sorry for the people who made the Twin Towers fall?"

This is what a coworker said to me about the massacre. So. How on earth do you cure a nation whose soul has been changed? :(

[Selatius]

1. So that's license to kill women and children, then?

Your coworker talks much.

[Bluebear]

10. My fear is that mindset is not isolated.

The coworker in question of course gets every bit of 'information' from FOX.

[Selatius]

14. No, it's not

Within that 29% that still supports Bush, you can find several million of them, enough for an army to do its leader's bidding.

[Warpy]

2. I also remember the memorials erected throughout the Arab world

when the death toll started to sink in. I also remember that CNN was caught red handed substituting footage of a completely different event.

The most touching memorial was in East Jerusalem.

[KansDem]

3. Ask if he/she feels better now, and if they do...

ask him/her if we can we bring our troops home.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 were from Haditha?

Wow I hadn't realized that :sarcasm:

[htuttle]

5. A) It was old footage of Palestinians who were supposedly cheering

B) All Arabs are not 'the same'. Obviously. Your coworker is a racist ignoramous who's breathing air that the rest of us could probably put to better use.

C) The only way our soul can be cured is through an extra-double heaping serving of humility. And BOY are we going to get it (IMHO)...

[babylonsister]

6. #1, Iraqis didn't make the towers fall, and #2, we're talking about

young boys and girls! They mimic their elders and don't necessarily know what they're cheering about to begin with.
So, it's okay to kill kids for no reason? Your co-worker has some screws lose, if you ask me.

[sabra]

7. I guess your coworker also believes Saddam attacked us on 9/11

some time the juice aint worth the squeeze...

[Bluebear]

11. 'some time the juice aint worth the squeeze'

Ain't that the truth.

[Tempest]

8. It never happened

It was old footage from Palestine before 9/11.

Your co-worker is a mindless drone.

[Jacobin]

16. You would be correct

:thumbsup:

Besides which I also remember seeing cheering in a bar on the night of "shock and awe" in America.

People were toasting each other and hooting and hollering and cheering as American bombs blasted the fark out of Iraqi citizens.

[Tempest]

9. It never happened

It was old footage from Palestine before 9/11.

Your co-worker is a mindless drone.

[panader0]

12. I've gotta admit, my first reactions were amazement and horror

then, I wondered what would make some people do that. They didn't just wake up one day and decide out of the blue to crash planes into the towers. U.S. foriegn policy in the Middle East has been oil centered for years. Why are we not liked? Why was the USS Cole bombed? If they were doing the same BS to us in our part of the world, we would be outraged too. Our entire foriegn policy is shaped by lust for money and resources. We will never be truly safe until we stop being the big bully on the block.

[Jacobin]

17. The clip played was PRE-9/11

Its forking propaganda.

[Critters2]

13. Most of the hijackers were from

our good friend and lifelong ally, Saudi Arabia.

The truth can be so inconvenient!

[arcane1]

15. I remember a candle-light vigil they held in Iran too

that should make your sickened co-worker's head explode

"feel sorry for the people who made the Twin Towers fall" is a shameful strawman, and not even a good one

[BlooInBloo]

18. Changed? NOT. This nation has ALWAYS reveled in...

... the mistreatment of brown people.

And they've ALWAYS come up with rationalizations for it.

And then afterwards - they ALWAYS emphasize how "not about race" it was.

But because of the HUGE "it's not about race" contingent, this behavior ends up being "new" EVERY TIME.

This is only "new" behavior to a certain special segment of America, imo.

[Bluebear]

19. Word.

As I typed along, I was thinking...or IS this a changed soul or just the underbelly being exposed?

[stopbush]

20. I hope your friend is boycotting Japanese and German goods.

Think of all the Americans they killed in WWII.

[Bluebear]

23. Coworker . . .not friend.

Just to be clear.

[Avalux]

21. That there is just plain IGNORANCE.

Can't expect someone who says such a thing to have the capacity to think differently or give a damn about some "Arab's" family. x(

[liberal N proud]

22. People like your coworker are why the bu$h regime has been able to

ruin this country.
There has been so much ignorance on so many fronts in this country the GOP and bu$h were just able to market to each special interest and take over.

[Last Stand]

24. And don't you remember what SICK FUCKS you said they were? nt

[uppityperson]

30. huh? who said what here?

[Rocknrule]

25. Anyone with a brain could tell that footage was FAKE

Why? Because when the attacks occured, it was nighttime in that part of the world! The "librul" media just used footage from some other past celebration to arouse anti-ME sentiments in Americans.

[rocktivity]

26. They weren't Iraqis, were they?

And what do you gain by killing the people you're trying to liberate?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. Some twisted sense of grim satisfaction, apparently.

[malaise]

27. Show him photos of those beautiful children

who were slaughtered.

[uppityperson]

29. Raise 1 side of your lip, lean back, say "you do know that wasn't real?"

[Bluebear]

31. They saw it on FOX.

It's "real". Sad but true.

This is one of the 29% who would forgive anything. ANYTHING this monkey President does.

[nytemare]

32. No, I don't feel sorry for Bin Laden. Where is he?

:shrug:

[LibertyorDeath]

33. I'll second that "Your co-worker is a mindless drone."