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May 13, 2004

On the video and on the comments.

I did watch it. It was, as one might expect, awful and one can only be happy that the sound was too bad to fully appreciate the horror.

A thought, I found the chanting of Allahu Akbar peculiar. It rather felt like even these criminal murders had to really work themselves up to do what they did. It certainly is not in any way normal to just shout/chant Allahu Akbar like that, over and over again. Indeed, it strikes me they were chanting to keep themselves going.

In some ways I hope this video is widely seen in the region, it will only reinfoce the conclusion that Zarqawi's people are well-outside Islam, very sick.

Of course the Salafi overboard al-Qaeda types will only get excited about this, but the majority will not - one doesn't even slaughter a goat that way, let alone one's enemy (or let alone an innocent bystander, if a stupid idiot of one).

Of course, as the odd little orgy of bigotry in the comments last night shows, this also feeds into the bigot gallery as well. I wonder where they all came from.

I should add (and I am puzzled this anti-war site links to me, I am no leftist and care not for their stupid neo-communist posturing) that the comments painting the poor bastard as having deserved to die because he was there to "exploit" Iraq as a "capitalist" are equally as inane and stupid as the bigots. The reality is that in a well-run and well-executed occupation of Iraq, people like him (well less clueless to be sure) would have done good, bringing expertise and capital to the table, and helping Iraq build a better future. The mere fact that the CPA is an incompetent, ideological mess does not say in any sense anything to the deep need for Iraq to shed the quasi-socialist mess of an economy and build a positive, free market system. The fact that Bush and Company have badly executed this on a "faith based" system is not "capitalist exploitation" it is simply incompetence of a quite generic kind - well the incompetence of the blind ideologue, be it Right or Left. In general, on the Right we tend to be rather more competent, after all competence makes money, incompetence does not. The extreme Left can indulge itself in its wanking as it wants.

May 13, 2004

On the video and on the comments.

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