Re: AUT: America Implodes

["Chris Hurl" <munkah@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

my bad...

there were actually two sheiks.  The Iron Sheik reigned supreme through the 1980s.  For the first gulf war it was actually Sheik Adnan el Kaissey.  Perhaps I got them confused because they were virtually identical, each practicing a famous move called the "Camel Clutch".

(man, I sure am procrastinating...)

--chris





>From: "stevphen shukaitis" <stevphen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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>Subject: Re: AUT: America Implodes

>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:59:41 +0100 (CET)

>

>I remember during the first Gulf

> > War, a wrestler by the name of the Iron Sheik marching around the ring

> > waving an Iraqi flag to the boos of the audience and then having his ass

> > kicked repeatedly by the likes of Hulk Hogan and the Million Dollar Man.

>

>hey! you are sooo totallly getting your preofessional wrestling facts

>wrong here:

>

>1. the iron sheik was much more from the mid-1980s

>2. the iron sheik's persona was tied to that of iran, not iraq. during

>this period iraq was the US ally as it was waging a proxy war against Iran

>- that's why he was the "wrestling bad guy"

>3. the Iron Sheik was allied with the bad Soviet wrestler whose name who I

>cannot remember at the moment (Ivan something or other).

>

>anyways - the point remainds basically the same: that the ideas and

>ideologies which contribute to people supporting crazy wight wing

>governments are created and sustained through often banal cultural means.

>one could also see this parallel is professional wrestling last year when

>the notorious "bad guy" wrestler of the moment was the French wrestler who

>would constantly get booed when he wrestled anyone from the US (and then

>there would be convenient camera cuts to scenes of US military, in uniform

>no less, who would be chanting "USA! USA! as the US wrestler proceeded to

>beat the crap out of the French wrestler)

>

>I have now just admitted to knowing far more about US professional

>wrestling that I would ever like to admit too - although at the moment

>such seems to be a oddly comforting thought to the realization the 58

>million people or so have just made themselves accimplices at horrenous

>war crimes and atrocities. shit .  . .

>

>cheers

>stevphen

>

>

>

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