Abu Musab al-Zarqawi = worm food... - by SlyFoxx
WAREAGLE on 10/6/2006 at 03:41
Quote Posted by Agent Monkeysee
Contentious and controversial issues are going to trend negative because people have serious and honest disagreements.
well i know that, i just wish someone would put a positive spin on the negs for once, or something to that effect. Im just tired of all the bad.:p
Gestalt on 10/6/2006 at 04:41
Quote Posted by littlek
So what! Was it ok for Zarqawi to saw a man's head off and post the video on the internet?
People here are talking about the ethics of the press showing pictures of the dead body, not the killing itself. Try to keep up.
WAREAGLE: War isn't known for being a pleasant business filled with happy sunshine and rainbows.
Vernon on 10/6/2006 at 13:23
(
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002485.html) The Tech That Took Out Zarqawi
This might be stating the obvious, but it's like 'let's all shit ourselves with delight that we killed one guy and then get our arrogant, fat, redneck arses up on a podium and run our mouth off about how great American tech is'
Blow up enough buildings and kill enough innocent people and you're bound to end up killing someone whose name you actually know.
"surgical strikes" ttttttttttttttttot.
WAREAGLE on 10/6/2006 at 17:47
Quote Posted by Gestalt
WAREAGLE: War isn't known for being a pleasant business filled with happy sunshine and rainbows.
well no shit. i just dont see the point in being so negative,
all the time. Everyone knows its sucks. But, I
do see the point in news showing the negative.
SD on 10/6/2006 at 17:54
Quote Posted by WAREAGLE
i just dont see the point in being so negative,
all the time.
Maybe people wouldn't be so negative all the time if there were, y'know,
any positives to be taken from this conflict?
littlek on 10/6/2006 at 18:27
Quote Posted by Gestalt
People here are talking about the ethics of the press showing pictures of the dead body, not the killing itself. Try to keep up
There is no difference.
SD on 10/6/2006 at 20:46
Quote Posted by Gestalt
Note that the media and the military are not the same organization.
Where do you think the media got the pictures from then? I'll give you a clue: it also starts with 'm'.
Gestalt on 10/6/2006 at 20:50
Damn, I was hoping to write a more on-topic reply before anyone saw the last one. Now the thread's mucked up.
littlek, you're saying we should only expect the press to meet the same standards of behaviour as people who beheaded a man. That's pretty damn sad.
Stronts: I mostly just meant to say that reprinting a picture of a person someone else killed is not the same thing as killing someone yourself and then distributing a video of the killing.
TheGreatGodPan on 11/6/2006 at 01:02
Zarqawi was not a Moussaui-esque "(
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/06/zarqawis_elimination_was_it_ki.php#004264) nobody". Bin Laden and Zawahiri made him the emir of Al Qaeda in Iraq and he had actually surpassed bin Laden in funding and popularity for a while. And while his group (heck, even the umbrella Shura council, which includes a lot more Iraqis) formed only a minority of (
http://www.globalterroralert.com/pdf/0306/iraqinsurgency0306.pdf) insurgency, they were distinct among them for their targets and their methods. THe bulk of the civilian casualties are the result of suicide bombings, and the bulk of the suicide bombings were perpetrated by his organization. They were also responsible for much of the beheadings and stirring up of shit with the Shiites, which is probably the biggest problem Iraq has to deal with. The ex-Baathist run-of-the-mill Iraqi Sunni insurgents are going to be much easier, politically, to deal with, as they're mostly just upset by the shift in power rather than nuts out for blood. Chalabi (yeah, we know he's a crook) has been trying to get the government to negotiate with groups that have given him offers, which will be more likely when the crazy jihadis are out of the picture. Of course, even if Al Qaeda in Iraq is largely neutralized, Ansar al Sunnah (linked to, but not led by Zarqawi) will still be a major problem.
