Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
August 16, 2011
NATO Wants Copulating With Those Possessed By The Devil

From this report by a Canadian journalist it seems that Gaddhafi's support in Libya has increased since NATO started bombing it. NATO is now also dropping leaflets and is showing, again, its total incompetence and lack of understanding of the local society:

As for the messages on the leaflets, the Libyans are quite amused at the clumsy translations. On one such note, the intended slogan is meant to urge civilians to go forward and "embrace" the rebels. Instead, it translates to encourage Libyans to go out and "copulate" with the rebels.

Another NATO missive was intended to advise those living within Gadhafi’s sector to pack up and move to a rebel-occupied territory. This somehow became garbled into a request for citizens to relocate to a "possessed" (as in, by the devil) area of Libya.

So NATO wants the Libyans in Tripoli to go and copulate with those possessed by the devil.

Somehow I doubt that the people, even the secular ones, will find this idea worth considering.

Comments

Even the BBC cannot help herself to tell it like it is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14547986
“If the members of Nato are hoping the events of the past few days herald the beginning of the end of this war, they may be in for a nasty surprise.”

Posted by: somebody | Aug 16 2011 16:16 utc | 1

Hopefully the Western propaganda line is getting long and pervasive enough to be able to stretch a few necks. I personally would favor the guillotine but I probably dwell too much in the history.

Posted by: juannie | Aug 16 2011 17:31 utc | 2

Oh man, I hope you, b, laughed as much as I did. A blogger doesn’t get a chance to type a headline like that often enough…)

Posted by: Eureka Springs | Aug 16 2011 17:49 utc | 3

Humanitarian devil copulation. Thank dawg, I am no longer a democrat.

Posted by: Eureka Springs | Aug 16 2011 17:51 utc | 4

NATO does not want the war to end…it needs wars to justify its existence..thats why the war in afghanistan can never end…Lucky NATO has a good supply of robots to prolong itself.

Posted by: brian | Aug 16 2011 21:44 utc | 5

Juan Cole ends his career by copulating with a devil!
I don’t know exactly when Juan Cole morphed into Paul Wolfowitz.
“Professor Cole “answers” WSWS on Libya: An admission of intellectual and political bankruptcy”: “This is the kind of response one would expect from someone who is drunk.”
Cockburn: “This is one of the greatest humiliations of NATO in its history (also, to be petty, a terrific smack in the eye for the analytic and political acumen of a prime propagandist in progressive circles for the rebels, Prof. Juan Cole, whose blogs on Libya have been getting steadily more demented.)”
Cole: “The UN allies won’t allow Qaddafi to take the east and massacre and imprison thousands, however much Alexander Cockburn, the Tea Party, and the World Socialist Web site would like to see that happen, or at least they object to practical steps to prevent it.”
Meanwhile, NATO continues to slaughter completely innocent civilians (it is so bad that even Ban Ki-Moon is ‘deeply concerned)’, making Gaddafi extremely popular, and Cole will never get his reputation back. Never.
I think the funniest of Cole’s postings is his attempt to downplay and rationalize the murder by the rebels of their chief military leader.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/08/uninformed.html

Posted by: brian | Aug 16 2011 21:47 utc | 6

Cole should get back to Middle East studies and stop advocating for war. What a disgrace!
There are plenty of propagandists for US militarism. It’s appalling that someone like Cole would join their ranks. Of course, for “news” he does seem to rely heavily on Al-Hayat, a notorious Saudi propaganda outlet. Maybe that’s part of his deal with the USG.

Posted by: JohnH | Aug 16 2011 22:03 utc | 7

great catch b!

Posted by: annie | Aug 16 2011 22:47 utc | 8

Cole has always been a war promoter…. and I guess that comes from the fact that he was born into a military family.

Posted by: Susan | Aug 17 2011 1:07 utc | 9

Yes, well caught, b.
But it’s just another predictably half-baked, it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time, gimmick from the same crowd who brought us the deliciously careless Russian “reset” button.
So when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greeted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva Friday before sitting down to their working dinner, she was all smiles when she presented him a small green box with a ribbon.
Lavrov opened it and, inside, there was a red button with the Russian word “peregruzka” printed on it.
“I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: ‘We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together.’ …
“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” she asked Lavrov, laughing.
“You got it wrong,” said Lavrov, as both diplomats laughed.
“It should be “perezagruzka” [the Russian word for reset],” said Lavrov.”This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means ‘overcharged.’”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 17 2011 2:03 utc | 10

But if you could translate it as ” go fuck with the devils”, it is an invitation to Gaddafi’s supporter to attack the rebels. Maybe a NATO translator doesn’t agree with NATO policy.

Posted by: blowback | Aug 17 2011 3:03 utc | 11

this in German from 1986:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13518687.html
People who are capable to give this kind of background seem to have become extinct. The media got it in their archives: Nobody reads up on stuff nowadays.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 17 2011 10:32 utc | 12

NATO (America’s proxy Army) committed a war crime by bombing the Libyan civilian water supply one day, and then the factory that makes pipe used to repair the water supply the next day.
Libyan civilians must now think that NATO is possessed by the devil and is fucking with them.
Should Libyan civilians return the favor and fuck with NATO?
We’re all terrorists now…

Posted by: Kevin Schmidt | Aug 17 2011 14:01 utc | 13