Drudge shows right wing attempt to capitalize on the beheading

[Must_B_Free]

Drudge showed the severed head and one word of judgment: SAVAGES!

He could have put a variety of other titles, yet the one chosen suggests how we are intended by the right to receive this propaganda:
"Muslims are Savages".

Recall that we are the "non savages" who are supposed to use this propaganda to fuel our hate and thus overlook the failings of Bush and find new support for this crucial crusade.

I think the Bush focus polls have measured the greatest benefit to Bush from the Berg video and are going for a repeat performance.

The opposing argument to this speculation requires the intended benefit from this act of propaganda. What is Al Qaeda hoping to achieve from this? Was it simply following through to the unreceived demands to save credibility?

Your thoughts?

[EdGy]

1. Maybe he was referring to the Bushies?

Cause when you think about it, Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rummie and those guys are the REAL savages.

[AlCzervik]

2. Drudge is a disease

When he hits bottom someday and oh he will thats gonna be some book. As for the photos and the SAVAGES!!!!! i'd say it makes them no better than the guys who videotaped Nick Berg's beheading.

[Cannikin]

3. My thoughts? When he comes out of the closet, I'll take him seriously.

[FlashHarry]

4. They ARE savages.

The ones who perpetrated this heinous act, that is--not Arabs or Muslims as a whole. Then again, the "coalition" has perpetrated many savage acts, too. Violence begets violence. This will not end well.

[quinnox]

5. Yea, savages is a loaded word

About Al Qaeda, who knows what their goals are behind this, I would guess more terror. But they lost this round anyway, the leader dude was killed who pulled this caper.

[Must_B_Free]

6. ahh - they've already disposed of the evidence?

can I say P.U.? something is starting to mells like bullshit.

[billbuckhead]

7. What is it with the orange jumpsuits?

[Must_B_Free]

9. So far, the official word is

that all terrorists keep a ready supply of orange jumpsuits to let all the observers they run into know that the captive is condemned. How this fits with the idea that they would release him if the demands were met is beyond me.

(Notice they cut the sleeve off to show his tattoo - perhaps as an identifying mark to be sure who he was, as if this was necessary.)

Today is the first time we have heard a plausibe excuse for the orange jumpsuit. I am getting off line momentarily. I wonder if anyone can locate any information online to support this idea that orange is for "condemned". When it was mentioned earlier, they said that the gitmo prisoners interpreted the suits as imminent condemnation to death.

[peacetalksforall]

8. If anyone gets mileage out of a beheading than we are sick...

The truth is that we are in a tit-for-tat Radical vs Radical killing spree and with all the participants acting like children.

Our 9-11 dead and all our soldiers are dead as a result of a criminal act made into a war for profit and radicalistic hate.

How does it feel to be led by children in a tit-for-tat fight?

Disgusting and horrific.

All those bodies and limbs and heads.

Where are the adults?

[KharmaTrain]

10. They'll Exploit Anything They Can Get

They can lie about the WMDs still being there and there's no torture in the prisons or the other major problems involving this invasion, but it's not easy these days. They're generally on the defensive...after running their mouths and hubris for the last 10 years. Eating crow isn't one of their favorite things.

This story, like Berg's, at least at the start and on the surface can be used to rally the hive-dwellers...a somewhat legitimate reason for "average people" to be outraged. And it's done on the most banal and simplisitic manner. It doesn't matter if it's a Saudi or Iraqi or Afghani or Yemeni...they're all Muslims...and when one of ours becomes a victim in what's rapidly becoming a way between "Christian" values and "Ismalic" ones (in their and the fundamental Moslem world as well) it's grabbed and used and exploited.

Face it, what else of any real substance do these losers have these days to justify all the lies they are living and the blood on their hands?

[K-W]

11. What does that make american racists who lynched blacks?

Apparently symbolic murder was invented by arabs.

[Junkdrawer]

12. Abu Ghraib heats up - there's a beheading - heats off for a few weeks...

Terror Memo/Rummy hiding prisoners heats up - there's a beheading - heats off for ???...

Nope. No pattern here.

[kentuck]

13. I think it is not al Qaeda - it is a desperate Saudi Arabia....

They are desperate because no Prince likes his kingdom to be threatened. They need help. They need American help. What is the best way to get America to save their butts? Have an America beheaded in Saudia Arabia? Will that get them back in the country to protect our thrones? Is that what it is about rather than al Qaeda? Something very fishy and smelly about the whole affair....