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Cheering Iraqis Are Silently Tell US Troops To Fuck Off

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While CNN and Fox news are showing cheering crowds giving US forces "a thumbs up", they dont explain to American viewers what that really means
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Iraqis are giving passing Americans the "thumbs up" sign, which the troops interpret as a symbol of support. But many veteran travelers insist that the gesture is a crass Middle Eastern insult. How should coalition forces take those skyward thumbs?

Depends on how media savvy those Iraqi bystanders may be. It's true that "thumbs up" traditionally translates as the foulest of Iraqi insults—the most straightforward interpretation is "Up yours, pal!" The sign has a similarly pejorative meaning in parts of West Africa, Russia, Australia, Iran, Greece, and Sardinia, according to Roger E. Axtell's book Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World. So, it's possible that the ostensibly cheering Iraqis are, in fact, silently voicing their displeasure.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2080812
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Locals give a thumbs-up as engineers from 9 Squadron Royal Engineers attached to The 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment detonate a stockpile of 155mm artillery rounds , in backbround, in Ad Dayr, a small village north of Basra, Iraq
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030409/168/3qzg9.html
§Up Your You US Assholes
by interesting
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Americans are too stupid to realize when they are being told to fuck off
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One would think this would be something the US troops were taught but the US is egotistical enough to actually shout commands at Iraqis in English so I'm assuming that means there was no training
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