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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: We aren't allowed to see the body bags as it is. From the Washington Post:
Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins
By Dana MilbankTuesday, October 21, 2003; Page A23 Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets. To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: When did they do this? Please include a reference to a reliable source, please.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Tell me, JF, which recent president has increased spending astronomically while also cutting taxes, resulting in an enormous budget deficit? Now tell me which recent president has balanced the budget?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I'll take a stab... ENIGMA code breakers?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: If you think there is any doubt about the offensiveness of the term, why don't you walk up to a random American of Asian descent and call him or her a "gook" and see what happens. Do you think that he or she will say, "Hey, I'm not a Communist!"?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yeah, so? If the term wasn't an offensive racist term, they would say "Hey, I'm not a Communist", right?
quote: Uh, no, it's used to refer to all East Asian people, not just Chinese, and not just leaders or military people. Did you read the dictionary definition that holmes provided? I'll find one, hold on...
gook- Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or descent. If you didn't know that was the definition,. now you do. It's offensive, it's racist, and it is not meant to be used in polite company.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Thanks. I would hope that you come to understand that denigrating and dehumanizing other groups is a base and immoral path to follow when thinking about world affairs.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Really? Where are those places?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
I did a bit of quick googling and it does seem to be that you can be arrested for openly being Christian in Saudi Arabia, and people have been imprisoned.
Didn't read about any executions, though. I would ask Jesus Freak, though, to explain why our government doesn't invade Saudi Arabia because of it's persecution of it's people?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Iraq was our ally when they were at war with Iran, but we invaded them anyway. Remember this famous photo?:
Oh, and we have the kind of tolerant relationship with Saudi Arabia that we do BECAUSE OF THE OIL. BECAUSE OF THE OIL. BECAUSE OF THE OIL.
quote: Right. So why don't we invade them? Why did we invade Iraq?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Correct.
quote: They did? They supported the 9/11 terrorists? How? I thought that the 9/11 hijackers were almost all Saudis, and I thought that the attack was orchestrated by Osama bin Laden with the aid of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Am I (and the 9/11 Congressional Commission) wrong?
quote: Yeah. 100,000+ dead Iraqi civilians can't be tortured, that's for sure. So, when are we going to be invading all of those African countries to stop the genocide of MILLIONS of people by those dictators?
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