Post #90,919
3/23/03 10:49:47 PM
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the vile ungrateful foe
One group of Iraqi boys on the side of the road smiled and waved as a convoy of British tanks and trucks rolled by.
But once it had passed, leaving a trail of dust and grit in its wake, their smiles turned to scowls.
"We don't want them here," said 17-year-old Fouad, looking angrily up at the plumes of gray smoke rising from Basra.
He pulled a piece of paper from the waistband of his trousers. Unfolding it, he held up a picture of Saddam, showing the Iraqi leader sitting on a throne with a benign smile.
"Saddam is our leader," he said defiantly. "Saddam is good."
Don't these heathen savages understand that we're there to bring them peace and enlightenment?
[link|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&e=50&u=/nm/20030323/ts_nm/iraq_scene_dc_2|http://story.news.ya...m/iraq_scene_dc_2]
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #90,925
3/23/03 11:05:10 PM
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You *must* be reading Saddam propaganda <grin>
What country's web site was that item in - I just can't piture it being in the US
Cheers Doug
(PS sent u an email but not reply - have been losing a few as I get re-established here)
Doug
dmarker@marker.org
Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003
Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003
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Post #90,936
3/23/03 11:35:47 PM
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Re: You *must* be reading Saddam propaganda <grin>
What country's web site was that item in
It was a Reuters dispatch (bylined Luke Baker and Rosalind Russell, who no doubt endures a lot of stale japery), which would put it in the Anglo-American quadrant of cyberspace.
As to email--my bad: it was languishing uncompleted among my drafts; just now fished out, hastily completed and its constituent packets flung across the briny sea.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #90,927
3/23/03 11:12:25 PM
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who do 17yo worship here? eminem whaddya expect?
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Post #90,928
3/23/03 11:19:59 PM
3/23/03 11:21:13 PM
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Re: who do 17yo worship here? eminem whaddya expect?
Hmmm...good point. Brings to mind an issue of hypocrisy: a guess at my age range is couched (multiple times) in a way that suggests young people are unqualified to have a reasonable opinion on politics. Yet a single 17-year-old's opinion is viewed as representative of an entire nation, simply because it fits what certain people want to hear. Even if it goes against a majority of accounts to the contrary.
BTW I'm nowhere near 17...above not below, you jokers. ;-)
Edited by cybermace5
March 23, 2003, 11:21:13 PM EST
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Post #90,931
3/23/03 11:23:27 PM
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ya well, some of us are convinced marlowe is
a public school history teacher due to his lack of knowledge of history, and another wag has suggested you might be one of his students. :-)
The things you are convinced of at 20 are quite different events at 40.
thanx,
bill
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To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #90,938
3/23/03 11:37:05 PM
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It's not representative.
But link that with the other stories about Iraqi troops fighting against overwhelming US force.
Then look at Afghanistan. Today.
That will be Iraq in a year.
And kids like that will be the "Freedom Fighters".
Rather than being so blind and dismissive, understand why he believes what he does.
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Post #90,940
3/23/03 11:39:19 PM
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Re: who do 17yo worship here? eminem whaddya expect?
So what--their 17 year-olds will dry-gulch our 19 year-olds at first opportunity. it's going to make for a long, bleak occupation. Incidentally, I have found condescending to the young to be one of the one of the profounder unexpected consolations of middle age.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #90,943
3/23/03 11:45:39 PM
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ROFL! middle gadgees maybe
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