Well, unless "supporting" is defined as "killing," some folks at our nation's finest technical university, MIT, have dropped the pretense. In particular, the staff of The Thistle, a self-described alternative news collective. Not content with lying when bashing a newly dead Ronald Reagan ("Unemployment rose to more than 10% of the working population[,] not seen since the Great Depression"--wrong: Unemployment hasn't exceeded 10 percent since 1940; when Reagan left office, unemployment was only 5.5 percent), beatifying Edward Said, grousing when Israel blocked useful idiots (and bombers) from entering Palestine via Israel, The Thistle's gone completely off the cliff:
- Openly cheering Iraqi terrorists:
The whole world owes Fallujah a tribute. Through the sacrifice of Iraqi fighters, the entire world has been shown the bloodsucking nature of US empire. The resistance in Fallujah is a lesson to all who choose to resist a life of oppression.
During a TV interview , one of the resistance members of Fallujah said: "We will fight until our last bullet, our last drop of blood. We hold our heads high in the sky, because we are in Al-Fallujah." - Promoting the wackiest of conspiracies to justify the brutal and televised slaughter of unarmed innocents:
Could these civilians be a solidarity group from the US opposing the war on Iraq? If so, why would they be traveling armed, in armored sport utility vehicles accompanied by so called "Iraqi Police"? Why did they have sophisticated communication devices? Why were maps of the city in the vehicles? [ed.: What a metaphor! If knowing where you are and where you're going is proof of espionage, the anti-war left must be the converse: clueless.]
If these civilians were contractors, as the US State Department has claimed, then they were working for the occupation, which makes them a legitimate target. What kind of contracts are being given by the occupation in Fallujah? Housing development? Infrastructure projects? Highly unlikely. These civilians were undercover mercenaries and military planning operatives of the US forces, gathering intelligence on the resistance in Fallujah. The State Department would not tell us what military rank these men had or what they were doing. The initial US reaction of denial and confusion, then anger about their numbers and nationalities, suggests that the resistance hit the jackpot. - Supporting, via vicious cartoon, beheading American soldiers.
- Suspending vegetarianism long enough to suggest cannibalism--main ingredient, policeman.
Sure they're just college kids. But that's the problem. As Robert Calabrese (andthenblammo!) says, "MIT: Come for the education, stay for the terrorism!"
(via Little Green Footballs)
2 comments:
MIT is not our finest technical university. CalTech is our finest technical university. MIT is an adequate fallback school.
Many of the insurgents in Iraq did dirty work for the Hussein regime. They tortured and murdered 300,000 of their fellow citizens. The US went into Iraq as the aggressor, but has emerged as a champion of human rights.
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