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2003-04-17 Iraq

British envoy, SAIRI chairman meet in Tehran

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-17 05:37 pm|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Celissa, in many parts of the world, those things you named ARE sports.

I'm not kidding.

Posted by Scott 4/17/2003 9:22:53 PM|| 4/17/2003 9:22:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Need a new rule here: "If you don't participate, you don't get a seat." Not even on the bus going back to Syria. You're given a partially deflated life vest, and tossed into the Shatt al Arab.

at night.
with a new moon.
with 40 pounds of raw, bleeding mullet attached in a "suicide vest".
and a dim pencil flashlight.

Survivors will be given a second chance. After all, we've got LOTS of those suicide vests.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-17 18:42:52|| 2003-04-17 18:42:52|| Front Page Top

Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution

***shudder***
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One question:
Why, in the Wide World of Sports, does any Western country bother sending "envoys" or "ambassadors" to any Arab/Muslim country?
Really, what's the point?
Does anyone truly believe that any of these sandy, seething, cesspools of hate (including the newly freed Iraq) are going to a)elect anything other than a despot or insane Islmaocrat or b)move away from socially retarded tribalism that allows--as tribal tradition--rape, murder, and oppression?
Sorry folks.
The more I see, hear, read, and learn about Arabs and Arab Muslims in particular, the less hope I have for the whole region and the world.

Posted by Celissa 2003-04-17 19:05:04|| [www.celissasblog.com/weblog.php] 2003-04-17 19:05:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Celissa, in many parts of the world, those things you named ARE sports.

I'm not kidding.

Posted by Scott 2003-04-17 21:22:53|| 2003-04-17 21:22:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Celissa,

I couldn't say it any better myself. P.J. O'Rourke nailed it when he called the Middle East "God's Monkey House." Too bad we couldn't just put a big fence around it and call it Omar's Wild Kingdom. Think of the tourism possibilities. We could run a monorail tour over the whole area just like they do at zoos. It would be just like watching Battlebots, but with real live combatants. Now before I start talking about airlifting huge quantities of Prozac and contraceptive-laden food, I'll stop. I'm going to piss off even the people here at Rantburg.

Posted by Joe 2003-04-18 07:15:52|| 2003-04-18 07:15:52|| Front Page Top

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