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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:39 PM
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Two dozen Americans die/wounded & we hear "moral values" on the news
Edited on Sun Nov-07-04 05:11 PM by plastic_turkeys
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Facing a major assault in Fallujah, insurgents struck back Saturday with suicide car bombs, mortars and rockets across a wide swath of central Iraq, killing over 30 people and wounding more than 60 others, including nearly two dozen Americans. At dawn Sunday, armed rebels launched attacks against police stations in western Anbar province, leaving 22 people dead, at least seven of them policemen, according to police and hospital officials.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_041107054059

The US media meanwhile blathers about gay marriage and Clinton says the Democratic and Republican philosophies are "not necessarily in conflict with each other". What have we become?

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UpsideDownFlag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:41 PM
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1. We have become Orwellian.
Edited on Sun Nov-07-04 04:42 PM by JibJab
and you should get used to the NewsSpeak.
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mhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:41 PM
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2. Given This Is The Reported Count - Who Knows What The Real Number Is?
We will never know!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:42 PM
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3. A nation of idiots and you have to wonder if they have
also threatned Clinton now


By the way this started over a year ago

Malasya goes for the Euro, waht is on my teevee, Lacy Peterson
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joanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:42 PM
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4. Just as long as gays cant marry
everything will be ok.

Apparently 59 million do not care about Iraq.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:19 PM
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10. If we could put the gays in a box and drop a flag over them?
No one would see it or think about it. And would they please not let those men with one arm and no legs out in public or run for office. It makes my walk to church so un-Christian, plus sweat from my hands on my Bible.
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:43 PM
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5. Two dozen wounded
Doesn't make it much better, but that appears to be two dozen Americans wounded. We'd hear about it if two dozen were killed.

I'm still waiting to hear about the 100,00 dead civilians per the Johns Hopkins report.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:43 PM
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6. I believe the Americans were wounded
how many Iraqis were slaughtered for being military-age males?
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Kurt Remarque Donating Member (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:44 PM
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7. not to mention the 100,000 and growing civilians killed so far in this wa
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harpo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 09:20 PM
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13. genicide
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:57 PM
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8. Thank you "Value Voters!"
I was numb, then I was angry, now I am just disgusted! I am disgusted with these "God, Guns and Gays" self righteous self serving, ignorant assholes! People are without jobs, people are homeless, people are without health care insurance, people are hungry, our troops are being slaughtered, innocent people are being killed and people are being persecuted for being born gay, a choice they didn't make. These so called "Value Voters" are passing judgment on others, when they have no right to, while voting against their own self interests! If that isn't the very definition of ignorant, I don't know what is. Excuse me, I think I am going to be sick. :puke:
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saskatoon Donating Member (574 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:10 PM
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9. what have we become?
What puzzles me is there are millions of citizens and a minescule number of men who are "in Charge" who are able to overcome anything and everything as they wish. I just don't understand it, I don't understand it.
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:21 PM
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11. RW consider gay marriage and sex in general worse than death
at least that is my impression.
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this_side_up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 06:11 PM
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12.  Does any US or Canadian newspaper
Edited on Sun Nov-07-04 06:12 PM by sheeeeeesh
print the photos of the dead and injured/maimed
for life (all nationalities) both newsprint and on-line?

How about alternative papers? The closest
alternative to me is 100 miles roundtrip.

edit to add maimed for life
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