as long as we keep "pretending" we're killing "Osama B" when we're doing nothing of the kind, we only make the next 9/11 inevitable. it's interesting that stock has unintentionally exposed that pretense with this knee-slapping sniper humor.

"no remorse," they say. i guess we'll have to check in with the snipers in ten years or so to see how that's going.

essenceofevil

Bemidji, MN

June 2004

FEB 19, 2005 09:04 PM

BrokenGavelBlues said:

essenceofevil said:

in_a_blue_state said:

stockula said:
Sung to the tune of Winter Wonderland:

In the street, there's an Arab.
Trigger breaks, now he's all d e a d .
.308 round
Shot that ***** down.
Stalkin' in a sniper wonderland.

Spinal shot, I had a clear sight.
It turned him off, like a porch light.
Call his mom on the phone,
He's not coming home.
Stalkin' in a sniper wonderland.

~refrain~
On the target we can paint a tur-ban
And we can pretend it's Osama B
We can dump a couple dozen mags in
It's a lot of of fun for you and me.

Oh, the bodies up are pilin'
In my hide, I sit a smilin'
They've limited sight
But I've got starlight
Stalkin' in a sniper wonderland.

so it's ok to post material that depicts members of our armed forces as heartless, cold-blooded, racist (notice it says "Arab," nothing else, about the target) murderers, as long as you're a conservative?

interesting.

how else would the song work?
"In the street, there's an person of Afghani descent"
It just doesn't work,

"In the street, there's a terrorist" works fine(as long as you pronounce it turr-ist like our president) - know why he didn't use it? Because for Stockula and the like, the terms Arab and Terrorist are synonymous. He doesn't need to specify the Arab of this ditty is a terrorist, because any arab can be assumed a terrorist by virtue of being an arab. It's a return, calculated by the show runners of this spectacle and embraced by the more impressionable of the public, to the mindset that to defeat an enemy you have to first utterly dehumanize the whole of their race, to reduce the entirety of the other side to nothing more than a detestable vermin.

After all, you can hardly take glee in the deaths of innocent souls which may actually be as human as yourself, but who could feel any remorse for a race of irredeemable savages? The savage Indians weren't worthy of consideration by the civilized expansionists, those slanty-eyed, murderous Japs were only getting what was coming to them, and any old primitive, turban wearing Muslim surely can't be considered anything more than a wife-beating terrorist in waiting.

Not such different sentiments, are they?

Touche

learningcurve

Anchorage, AK

September 2004

FEB 20, 2005 11:36 AM

monkeybutt said:

stockula said:

Snottlebocket said:
why do snipers in iraq need extra money?

Because a lot of the best gear isn't standard issue. The rifle scopes the snipers like cost about $1200 each. Soldiers buy a lot of their own equipment, not just to do a better job of whacking terrorists but to make their lives over there more bearable. It's a gesture of appreciation and support for our soldiers, so naturally it drives liberals like Keith mad.

what are you talking about? rummy says everything is just fine.

read the second comic. because i have no fucking clue how to paste it in.

Rummy's ruminations about the state of American gear aside, the reality is that a lot of civilian, non-army, issue stuff is superior to things the military issues. Partly this is because commercial stuff evolves faster than military kit ("we just bought two million pairs of boots . . . maybe we should use those up before buying new and improved boots" etc.) and partly it is because commercial products don't have to be nearly as idiot proof as army issue things. Having known a bunch of people to have spent time in Afghanistan or Iraq, I can't think of any of them who were content to make the trip with strictly military issue stuff.

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I'm lost

March 2004

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