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ECH1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:34 PM Original message |
Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target |
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WillParkinson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Democracy at its finest... |
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Freedom_from_Chains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 10:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. That's imported "Bush" democracy |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. So much for a democracy. |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. so it's legal to kill the kidnapping *victims*? |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. "who's writing the laws over there? The same people that |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 09:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Oh, please |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 03:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Doesn't seem silly to me. |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 06:48 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Spot on except for the 100 years part - Don't forget, Lawrence was just |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:31 AM Response to Reply #22 |
31. nicely said. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
47. Fantastic post. Thank you. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #22 |
50. Excellent post. Well done -- and thank you. |
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Tight_rope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 10:05 AM Response to Reply #22 |
67. I agree with you 100%. |
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varun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
34. Three guys beat up a gay man in New Mexico |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 09:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
38. Will you continue to think that after states start enacting legislation |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 09:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Clue phone ringing |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. duh. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 09:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
39. Why should he? YOU'RE the one who doesn't "get it". |
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bling bling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:57 PM Response to Reply #39 |
60. Let's keep it realistic, though. |
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Kailassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 12:17 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. Actually, Sharia law was given legal status in their constitution. |
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bling bling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
59. What am I missing here? |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 09:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. It's legal to kill rape victims in their religion... |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
35. They've been doing this with women forever. |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. Sharia at its finest |
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mom cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. Mission Accomplished Georgie. |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
7. Which politician will be the first to say it; |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 09:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Here's a wiki account of treatment of gays under Saddam |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
29. Sorry |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 11:57 AM Response to Reply #29 |
42. I think the jail/fine was for prostitution. n/t |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
57. It sounds like Iraq was fairly tolerant, by middle eastern standards |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 03:39 AM Response to Reply #57 |
66. All the "liberation" has done |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. Thank you international neocon conspiracy that got us into this war! |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 11:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 11:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. If that is true, then why do they support preachers with this view with |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 11:30 AM Response to Reply #17 |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 12:05 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Go google Reagan +HIV and then get back to us n/t |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:00 PM Response to Reply #43 |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. "but who's fault is it they had the disease in the first place?" |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:08 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. I remember people were very upset at the time that he was ignoring |
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megatherium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 02:53 PM Response to Reply #46 |
54. Many people averted their eyes in those days. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 03:25 PM Response to Reply #41 |
55. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:35 PM Response to Reply #41 |
58. Wow a DUer supporting Reagan! How interesting. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. Aw, now, RMO... |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 10:55 PM Response to Reply #58 |
63. Oh, wait... |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:18 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. WRONG! |
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mogster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:54 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Not true |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 12:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-05-06 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
13. Fundamentalist butchers of the world unite! |
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MrPrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
18. War on Drugs... |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 01:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
69. Tell people no child left behind and defund schools |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
19. Congratulations, Republicans! You have spread your hate to Iraq. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
20. Scary. |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
21. Typical. This goes back to what I originally said about the M.E. |
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cshldoc (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 06:08 AM Response to Original message |
23. They're all gay anyway... |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. I've lived |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 08:56 AM Response to Reply #23 |
36. Holding hands and the like are quite common in Arab culture |
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leQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 11:26 AM Response to Reply #23 |
40. when i went to school with a bunch of persian & kuwaiti students |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 03:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
56. Would you ask your BIL something? |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
25. Sounds like we have enabled an "Islamofascist" theocracy. |
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Nikki Stone 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 02:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
53. Sounds like it was their intent all along. Why do you think Iran is scared |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
26. Thank you, King George, for your spreading of hatred, |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:23 AM Response to Original message |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 01:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 07:29 AM Response to Original message |
30. my gawd-and for this our troops are dying and being blown up never to |
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Nikki Stone 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 02:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
52. YES! Exactly! They are dying to create more death for the average |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
37. Iraq is becoming a republican's dream - a hate filled authoritarian |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 01:30 PM Response to Reply #37 |
71. I think it's the perfect place for the bush* presidential library. |
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Nikki Stone 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
51. Notice that children are being killed after being sold into prostitution |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 09:01 PM Response to Reply #51 |
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Placebo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-06-06 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
65. If RW Christian Fundamentalists had their way... |
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stepnw1f (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 01:28 PM Response to Reply #65 |
70. kick.... What Placebo Said |
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stepnw1f (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-07-06 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
72. Now We Know Why the GOP Says Things Are Fine in Iraq |
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