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2007-01-24 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I have an idea! Let Israel hire Iraqi mercs to deal with Paleos.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-01-24 00:22|| 2007-01-24 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like the Shia weren't bluffing when they told the paleos to hit the road.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-24 00:43|| 2007-01-24 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 That would be like the Romano/British Celts hiring Saxons to fight the Danes. Didn't work then either.

Posted by Uleanter Ebbinenter1449 2007-01-24 07:19|| 2007-01-24 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 In a, totally unrelated, news item
Number dead in Fatah-Hamas clashes rises to four

Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-24 08:57|| 2007-01-24 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 It says something about the state of affairs in Palenstine when you have to go to Iraq as a "refugee".

Posted by Jack is Back">Jack is Back 2007-01-24 10:16|| 2007-01-24 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 No, no, Jack. I've no doubt the Palestinians in question are three or four generations removed from fleeing the 1948 establishment of Israel. Refugee is the classic noun appended to the pseudo-nationality adjective, like fluffy goes with bunny or cuddly with puppy.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-24 12:42|| 2007-01-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 17 Palestinians Abducted in Iraq

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks, honest!

Posted by BA 2007-01-24 13:01|| 2007-01-24 13:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Most likely kicked out of Kuwait in 1991.

Posted by ed 2007-01-24 13:15|| 2007-01-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 A strong possibility, ed. Although in that case likely their parents are still living in the Territories, which they themselves had left to work -- temporarily as it turned out -- for the oil plutocrats. There's a dreadful price to be paid for backing the wrong evil tyrant.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-24 13:32|| 2007-01-24 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Refugee is the classic noun appended to the pseudo-nationality adjective

So like DeaconMan is a Confederate refugee!

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-24 16:09|| 2007-01-24 16:09|| Front Page Top

23:59 Joe of the Jungle
23:33 USN, ret.
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