Iraqi News Dictionary
Compiled by Jenny Marsh  |
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The Iraqi News Dictionary is an secret
code manual compiled by linguists and media experts
to allow those of us in the West to understand
what is really going on in Iraq. |
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 EEING
OR LISTENING to
Western news reports of the situation in Iraq has always
left me with an uncomfortable feeling: something does
not make sense, but I could never put my finger on
it. Then, I realized the problem: Western news reports
need to be decoded. Once that is done, all those nagging
feelings simply vanish! |
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| updated 31 Dec 04 |
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| abu guarab /ahhboo-garrab/ n |
| American military sex and torture dungeons
run for the entertainment of the US troops. (Under
Saddam it was just a boring old torture chamber.) |
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| al qaeda /al-kyeeda/ n |
| a fictitious label to collect all the separate
groups of terrorist around the world into one
global enemy; perfect justification for empire
building and massive military tax bills. |
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| Blair /bl-air/ n |
| small poodle or lapdog favoured by American
presidents; an extremely insincere politician. |
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| Bush /bushh/ n |
| the worst, most dangerous, most immoral, and
least intelligent US President of all time. |
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C |
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| camp x-ray /camp-exray/ n |
| isolated torture camp run by the US in Cuba
to give the impression that its detainees are
extremely dangerous criminals. |
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| clearing a city /klear-ring/ v |
| to bomb the living daylights out of a civilian
built up area and then to shoot the unarmed men,
women and children that start crawling pathetically
out of the rubble. |
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| coalition forces /co-alition/ n |
| the good old US of A, period… oh… and
a few sycophantic poodles. |
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| collateral damage /klateral/ n |
| the cold blooded murder of unarmed men, women
and children, mostly by blowing them to pieces
with bombing campaigns. |
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| contractor /kon-trak-ter/ n |
| marine (see below) employed by the private sector
and paid by the American taxpayer. |
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| democracy /demokrasee/ n |
| a system of brutal dictatorship in which elections
are rigged and leaders chosen by the United States. |
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| depleted uranium /depleeted urain-ium/
n |
| weapon of mass destruction used by the US on
the Iraqi people. (The radioactive dust from
the hundreds of tons of exploded shells and bullets
will eventually kill countless thousands of men,
women and children.) |
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| elections /elek-shions/ n |
| a useful method to collect information on the
Iraqi people; a smokescreen for dictatorship. |
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| embedded journalist /em-bed-ed/
n |
| a disseminator of US propaganda; a disgrace
to his or her profession; a liar. |
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F |
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| freedom /free-dhom/ n |
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G |
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| Geneva Convention /gen-eeva/ n |
| "quaint" and archaic rules of combat
that do not apply to the US or the puppet dictators
that it supports; a legal technicality. |
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| hospital /hoss-pital/ n |
| a pile of rubble mixed with the blood of already
wounded civilian men, women and children. (Attractive
target as it is always full of people.) |
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| human rights /hew-man/ n |
| applied to foreigners, this is a crazy liberal
idea held by the unpatriotic and left-wing to
undermine American dominance; applied to Americans,
this a clever legal device for suing. |
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| insurgent /insir-gent/ n |
| an Iraqi who has made the mistake of resisting
the illegal invasion and destruction of his or
her country by the United States and the UK. |
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| intelligence /intellygence/ n |
| creative writing institute used to back up
government propaganda. |
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| interim government /interim/ n |
| puppet dictatorship chosen by the US and representing
US interests. |
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| Iraq /e-rak/ n |
| America's new oil supply and a military base
for its imperial conquest of the rest of the
Middle East. The 51st State
of the USA. |
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| justice /jus-tice/ n |
| a thousand eyes for an eye; a thousand teeth
for a tooth; a bullet in the head; sex and torture
at Abu Guarab. |
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| liberation /lyberation/ n |
| the murder and enslavement of a people, and
the annexing of foreign countries to the American
Empire; war crimes. |
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| marine /marr-reen/ n |
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| militants /mill-itants/ n |
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| mosque /mosk/ n |
| great place to prove your manhood by shooting
wounded and unarmed men in the head at point
blank range; shooting range. |
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| news conference /newws/ n |
| propaganda dissemination event |
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| nine-eleven (9/11) /nyne-elevan/
n |
| the terrible 01 terrorist attack on the World
Trade Center in New York; Bush's crafted cue
to speed up US Empire Building; blow-back. |
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| oil /oi-al/ n |
| currency for modern empire-builders; an asset
that must always be US-controlled. |
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| Osama /oh-sa-ma/ n |
| forgotten member in endless series of hobgoblins
put forth by Bush (see also "Saddam" below) |
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| press conference /press/ n |
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| quagmire /kwag-my-er/ n |
| inextricable situation (see "Iraq", "Vietnam") (NOTE:
official removed from White House/ Pentagon
vocabulary circa March 1993) |
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| rebel /reb-ball/ n |
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| Saddam /sa-dom/ n |
| Previous member of the endless series of hobgoblins
put forth by Bush (see also "Osama" and "Zarqawi") |
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| smart bombs /ss-mart/ a |
| an expensive device operated by dumb people
that blows innocent men, women and children to
pieces slightly more efficiently than conventional
bombs. |
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| sovereignty /sov-ren-tee/ n |
| A country or people with no security and no
government, occupied against its/their will by
a foreign invader (see also "democracy" and "elections") |
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| terrorist /terror-wrist/ n |
| (see insurgent above); also Osama bin Laden,
Abu Zarqawi, Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,
and anybody who supports them. |
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| turning point /ter-ning-poynt/ n |
| An event which the American government considers
to bode well for their illegal occupation of
Iraq. Examples include: the death of Uday and
Qusay Hussein; the capture of Saddam Hussein;
the "transfer of power" [sic] on 30-June-2004;
the taking back of Fallujah; with more to come. "The
only turning point will be when the United States
turns around and leaves." — Matthew Rothschild
(progressive.org) |
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| tyrant /tire-rant/ n |
| George Bush, and before him, Saddam Hussein;
any dictator supported by the US. |
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| United States of America / n |
| the last evil empire and the one most likely
to trigger Armageddon; (unfortunately, the 49%
sane inhabitants of the US now seem powerless
to stop this march to annihilation). |
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| Viet Nam /vee-et nom/ n |
| Arabic translation of "Iraq" (see above) |
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| war crimes /waar-crymes/ n |
| standard US military strategy to "shock
and awe" an invaded people into submission. |
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| weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
/ n |
| a blatant lie to assuage the guilt of the US
population in their support for their government's
overt empire-building and mass murder. |
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| Zarqawi /zar-kow-ee/ n |
| current member of the endless series of hobgoblins
put forth by Bush. |
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