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Bad news from Iraq

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sandandfoam

sandandfoam

Veteran Member
Francine said:
All suicide bombers are retarded, prima facie.
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I have no time for murder but this is mistaken.
From Scientific American Mind:-
The belief that suicide bombers are poor, uneducated, disaffected or disturbed is contradicted by science. Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, found in a study of 400 Al Qaeda members that three quarters of his sample came from the upper or middle class. Moreover, he noted, "the vast majority--90 percent--came from caring, intact families. Sixty-three percent had gone to college, as compared with the 5-6 percent that's usual for the third world. These are the best and brightest of their societies in many ways." Nor were they sans employment and familial duties. "Far from having no family or job responsibilities, 73 percent were married and the vast majority had children.... Three quarters were professionals or semiprofessionals. They are engineers, architects and civil engineers, mostly scientists. Very few humanities are represented, and quite surprisingly very few had any background in religion."
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
All suicide bombers are filthy scum, but whoever used these two women in this way makes the others seem virtuous by comparison.
 
Todd

Todd

Rajun Cajun
angellous_evangellous said:
The AP is reporting that two mentally retarded women were used as suicide bombers.

Mentally retarded women used in bombings - Yahoo! News
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Cowards. That's all I can think of. They had to use two down syndrome girls to do their dirty work because they couldn't do it themselves. Pretty sad.

I feel very sad for the people of that country that have to deal with this type of stuff on a daily basis. They dealt with it before and after the war. IMO, if our troops stay there or leave, the violence will probably continue (even though I pray for peace over there).
 
Todd

Todd

Rajun Cajun
Somkid said:
Why am I not shocked, amazed or surprised, I honestly think I have become desensitized.
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Very true. We've all become desensitized (at least I know I am). I'm sure it's even worse over there where they actually see death a lot more than we do. They probably look at a dead body like it's no big deal because they see it a lot (just a guess).
 
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Somkid

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They block people smoking, drinking and pointing guns at each other, heck they even block boobs in movies here but they do not block the news they want us to see the true horrors of the world we live in.
 
Jistyr

Jistyr

Inquisitive Youngin'
I saw this on the news earlier today; it is nothing shy of horrifying.

The truly sad thing, though, is since it isn't in America, our media won't give it a second glance.
 
UnityNow101

UnityNow101

Well-Known Member
How are you going to rid Iraq of people like that? We have to become realistic about the situation that we are facing in the world or over-extend ourselves to our own economic demise. How do we rid Iraq of people that are so desperate that they would kill another just to kill more people? By turning around and bombing them to ashes while killing multiple civilians, in turn angering many more?
 
kai

kai

ragamuffin
UnityNow101 said:
How are you going to rid Iraq of people like that? We have to become realistic about the situation that we are facing in the world or over-extend ourselves to our own economic demise. How do we rid Iraq of people that are so desperate that they would kill another just to kill more people? By turning around and bombing them to ashes while killing multiple civilians, in turn angering many more?
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by arming and training the Iraqi security forces in order to keep law and order and for the leaders of the communities in Iraq to come out and publicly state that this behavior is not wanted or needed and is not martyrdom but murder , but don't hold your breath
 
lamplighter

lamplighter

Almighty Tallest
Well really if we were NOT there they really couldn't have any excuse to blame us for their atrocities, really ever since we've been there the situation in the middle east has gotten worse almost on a monthly basis it seems, Saddam Hussein was the only one who was dirty enough to keep them at bay. As americanized as Saddam was I doubt he did much dealing with Al-Quida except maybe make a quick buck with arms. "Oh but the government will collapse and chaos will ensue like at the end of Vietnam, if we pull out now!", well that's going to happen regardless, unless you're going to go around and force everyone to convert to something else or die, so really the question is; How long do you want to stay in Iraq and let our soldiers die before the inevitable happens? :shrug: I mean really, chaos is going to happen and that puppet government we have installed is going to be destroyed by the locals as soon as we're gone, not too mention they haven't met many of the benchmarks we told them to meet to continue receiving our aid. Oh and I like how they're crying "wolf" again with Iran, though do you know only the nations with permanent seats at the UN are the only ones permitted to have nuclear arms?
 
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