[YankBastard]

So when do you think the Iraqis will make a statue for George Bush?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8336789.stm

Former US President Bill Clinton has attended the unveiling of a statue of himself in Kosovo's capital Pristina.

[CrewDust]

Originally Posted by YankBastard

So when do you think the Iraqis will make a statue for George Bush?

Only if they can bill someone else for it.

[argentine soccer fan]

Originally Posted by YankBastard

So when do you think the Iraqis will make a statue for George Bush?

Of course. And a little one for Tony Blair next to it.

[CrewDust]

Or the Bush statue would be holding the cardboard cutout of Blair.

[Chesco United]

I think the Iraqis should make a statue of the infamous shoe that was thrown at Dubbya.

[ElJefe]

Originally Posted by CrewDust

Or the Bush statue would be holding the cardboard cutout of Blair.

Or a sockpuppet of Blair. Of course, Blair likely wouldn't object to having George Bush's hand up his backside.

[DoctorD]

It's always disappointing to recall how the US helped predominantly Muslim countries like Bosnia and Kosovo/Albania, and got the 9/11 terrorism as thanks.

[96Squig]

Originally Posted by DoctorD

It's always disappointing to recall how the US helped predominantly Muslim countries like Bosnia and Kosovo/Albania, and got the 9/11 terrorism as thanks.

What does the situation in Bosnia, Albania, or even Kuweit have to do with the situation those people were in that made them terrorists? Not much if you ask me. Seeing 9-11 as betrayal from 'the muslim world' is one of the stupidest inerpretation of 9-11 I have read in a long time.

[Dr. Wankler]

Originally Posted by 96Squig

Seeing 9-11 as betrayal from 'the muslim world' is one of the stupidest inerpretation of 9-11 I have read in a long time.

I don't agree with it, but it's far from the stupidest interpretation I've seen.

I think the "truthers" have the market cornered on that one, with the interpretations offered by the Bush administration coming in a distant second.

[bigredfutbol]

Originally Posted by Dr. Wankler

I don't agree with it, but it's far from the stupidest interpretation I've seen.

Only if you assume that "the Muslim world" is a monolithic entity.

Kosovars are pretty damn secular Muslims, who feel a stronger affinity for their ethnic kin in Albania proper (some 30% of whom are Orthodox and Catholic, not to mention that Albanian Muslims are not all Sunnis) than for other, non-Albanian Muslims. Slavic Muslims in Bosnia and the Sandzak are pretty secular as well (and Bosnia, technically, is not a majority-Muslim country; the Muslims are a plurality, not a majority), although one side-effect of the war in the 1990s was to make the "Muslim" identity more acute.

In hindsight, we can see that there IS a hypocrisy from Islamists who claim that the US is an "enemy to Islam" but given our interventions on behalf of Kosova, Bosnia, and Kuwait, but IMHO, the much bigger hypocrisy comes from the simple fact that the majority of the victims of Islamic extremist violence have been other Muslims.