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2007-01-31 Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2007-01-31 06:17|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I feel great today, said Shihab Akmed Hussein, an Iraqi Police officer. Now, I want just want to come back to work so I can help protect my country from the terrorists and kick them out of the country.

Amen.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-31 07:11|| 2007-01-31 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Knights? How'd they slip that one by?

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-31 09:16|| 2007-01-31 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't see the irony. Arabs had/have a tradition of chivalry that goes back at least as far as that of European chivalry. The poet Dante put Muhammad in Hell, but put the Kurdish general Saladin in the ranks of the virtuous pagans, related to Saladin's performance in the Crusades against the Crusaders.. Linking notions of Arabic chivalry to the modern task of bringing law'n order to Iraq seems a very good idea indeed.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-31 09:27|| 2007-01-31 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe I am picking a nit, AH... but Saladin was a Kurd, so that would be Kurdish chivalry. If you got an Arab representative of "Arabic" chivalry, please present, by all means. I mean an Arab, not a Berber, Moor, or any other ethnic group that has been Islamized.

Good luck.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-01-31 12:35|| 2007-01-31 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Look, if it gets them thinking in the right way, then who cares if historically Saladin was a Kurd? Here in America we're all Irish on March 17th. Most of the rest of the world would benefit from letting go of the back breaking weight of historical exactness in favour. Anguper Hupomosing9418 could more accurately have said the Muslim world has a history of idealized knighthood just as does Christendom, contemporanous to it, and equally honoured mostly in the breach.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-31 13:19|| 2007-01-31 13:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not sure why dipshits sometimes flock here, but flock they do.

Posted by Fred 2007-01-31 14:37|| 2007-01-31 14:37|| Front Page Top

#7 thank you, Fred

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-31 14:46|| 2007-01-31 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm not sure why dipshits sometimes flock here, but flock they do.

probally ran out of SPLENDOR in ASS-stan.

Posted by RD 2007-01-31 15:11|| 2007-01-31 15:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Awwwww. Where's my chew toy?

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-31 15:22|| 2007-01-31 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Here in America we're all Irish on March 17th.

Not me thanks. The green beer is too much for my delicate constitution.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-31 15:36|| 2007-01-31 15:36|| Front Page Top

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