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2003-12-14 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-14 19:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We are such insideous liars that we decided to wait seven months to parade this facsilmile of Sadaam around. Oh, and we will soon plant some WMD in Iraq or Syria. We knew that if we found some right away, it would look like a plant.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-14 8:55:06 PM|| 2003-12-14 8:55:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Step 1: Denial

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-12-14 9:41:27 PM|| 2003-12-14 9:41:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Believe it or not, the NY Times on 12/15 actually had this nugget of sense: What followed was an example of something eerily familiar to anybody who experienced Mr. Hussein's years of power, indeed familiar to anybody who has studied totalitarian states like Stalin's Russia. That is the seeming ability of people to dismiss reality by creating a virtual world that conforms to the dictates of the state, or to their personal interests, either in benefiting from the state or surviving its terror.

Posted by Tresho 2003-12-14 11:48:01 PM|| 2003-12-14 11:48:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 But it's more than that, Tresho. It's like almost the entire Muslim world has taken a drink of Jim Jones' Kool-Aid. But intead of strychnine, it is filled with a stupid pill.

You and the Times are correct as there seems to be a total inabiltiy to exercise critical thinking and rational thought. Quotes from Muslims throughout the Arab world about what a great Muslim he was, and what a great warroir he was and what a great Muslim leader he was.

Was he a great Muslim leader when he killed a million odd Iranians and 1/2 as many Iraqi's in a senseless 8 year war? Was he a great Muslim leader when he butchered a million of his own people? Was he a great leader to kill 100K shiites near Basra in 1991? Was he a great Muslim leader to gas 1000s of Kurdish women and chilren?

Posted by alaskasoldier 2003-12-15 12:14:28 AM|| 2003-12-15 12:14:28 AM|| Front Page Top

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