Abu Musab al-Zarqawi = worm food...

ZylonBane on 8/6/2006 at 21:39

Was I supposed to be impressed by your use of an obscure Greek word?

Sorry StD, you're going to have to try harder than that. People in this forum tend to be unimpressed by wannabe pretentious farkwits.

BEAR on 8/6/2006 at 21:42

Thank god everythings gonna work out ok! Just in time for the elections too!

TheGreatGodPan on 8/6/2006 at 21:43

I thought (http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/003337.html) this was a rather good analysis of the event. As for whether knocking off leaders does any actual good, (http://haganah.org.il/harchives/005011.html) this seems to indicate the answer is yes.

Vigil on 8/6/2006 at 21:43

Quote Posted by ZylonBane

1. it's in common colloquial British usage
2. this entire exchange is so utterly pot-kettle it's absurd

SubJeff on 9/6/2006 at 00:15

I love it. It's okay to show this guy's dead body on TV but show a US or UK troop's body and oh no you broke the rules! Way to go for stopping any notion of double standards.

ZylonBane - for someone who picks at tiny issues you really don't know that much. This is the Nth time we've seen you "catch" someone out for being obscure when they are using common language. Did you grow up/do you live in the sticks?

Scots Taffer on 9/6/2006 at 00:21

Quote Posted by Vigil

1. it's in common colloquial British usage

Uh, sure. I can just hear a cabbie in London talking about your lack of nous in not ordering an amuse bouche at your local bistro.

Oh, and I couldn't care less about Abu Mazal Baqwari.

Zygoptera on 9/6/2006 at 03:54

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

I love it. It's okay to show this guy's dead body on TV but show a US or UK troop's body and oh no you broke the rules! Way to go for stopping any notion of double standards.

While I don't agree with the gratuitous (or even non-gratuitous) showing of dead 'enemies' on TV, this case and the Uday/ Qusay ones do have some justification. Many people would refuse to believe they were dead otherwise. Showing the body of Pfc Joe Bloggs from Montana on the other is simply unnecessary.

Of course, all the crowing from the usual suspects is just more self-delusionary rubbish (though from seeing Blair's speech on the matter even he seemed to have trouble believing what he was saying). Zarqawi was a divisive figure- not a uniting one- to the insurgency and many of the religious moderates hated him and his foreigners every bit as much as the US. That anyone thinks this will make a difference is just more evidence for the sheer lack of any kind of understanding which has afflicted the 'allies' involvement in Iraq from the outset.

Vigil on 9/6/2006 at 08:22

Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer

Uh, sure. I can just hear a cabbie in London talking about your lack of nous in not ordering an amuse bouche at your local bistro.

Oh yeah, I forgot that cockney wide boys are the sole gauge of modern linguistic usage. Do we need to have this exchange or can we just skip straight to the tonguing?

Scots Taffer on 9/6/2006 at 08:27

Yeah, sure, I'm up for a bit of necking.

Just saying is all, I've never heard anyone in the UK use the word "nous" when speaking.

SubJeff on 9/6/2006 at 09:17

Quote Posted by Zygoptera

Many people would refuse to believe they were dead otherwise.

So what? How do I know that the pic is of him anyway? Is it someone who looks like him? Is it a wax model for the propaganda? And even if you have to show it do you have to put it on the front cover of every single newspaper? The pics of the coalition troops didn't get anywhere near as much exposure and the US/UK were still outraged. Besides, if they weren't shown people might not have believed they were dead, right? It's double standards and that is all there is to it.

Scots - nous is, admittedly, used by scousers to a much greater degee than anyone else in the UK. But it's far from obscure. I'm very suprised you've never heard it used.