Sep
17
2005
Isn’t it amazing how little attention is paid to Iraq? Look at all those deaths. All those bombings. And they get barely a mention.
But I suppose it much more fun to bet on where the next terrorist attack will be, and win a t-shirt
The definition of terrorist attack stands here for a war action aimed at any civil target on any location that’s not already involved in any kind of “official” war or so intetend by U.S. administration.
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death,
Iraq,
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May
22
2004
Remember back when the whole “should the US invade Iraq” discussion was going on. And there were all those anti-french sites? And the google bomb thingy pointing to pages like this, well recently came across a response to those, and while some valid points are brought up about French victories that isn’t really why I’m mentioning it. Think of this paragraph as background information 
The point I was interested in was (1)Do people still use the term “glorious” when discussing military matters? and (2)Why should it be taken as given that people hate the French? I mean even if you were totally opposed to France’s stance, surely people can disagree fundamentally with each other and yet no hate each others? Maybe we should start to respect all people, no matter if they are our enemies?
Current track:Croi Croga by Clannad
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Iraq,
Iraq war,
politics,
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May
20
2004
Sometimes I really have to wonder about people. Not just at what goes on in reality TV shows (Paradise Hotel anyone), but in a much more serious way.
Michael Savage (never heard of him, but according to Salon he has around 6 million listeners in the US), has “taken to calling Arabs “non-humans” and has called for the U.S. to kill “thousands” of Iraqi prisoners and nuke a random Arab capital”. Now even if that is merely shock-jock attention seeking behaviour it is still scary.
People are people, there is no such thing as a non-human, or a completely evil individual. Unless of course that is a made up character on TV or in a book. People have motivations and reasons for why they act they way they do. And yes acts themselves can be evil and despicable but to call a person evil is to dismiss them as “other” and what is other doesn’t have to be understood or thought about.
Current track: Daddy is a good man by Michael J Sheehy
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Iraq,
Michael Savage,
people,
racist
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Apr
28
2004
Isn’t the internet a wonderful place? One learns so many things, for example, that vexillologists are people who are flag aficionadoa, I never knew that before
Course the reason I came across the term in Iraq’s new flag, the one with the blue cresent, picked by the Iraqi ruling council.
Personally I don’t like the way it looks, and don’t see the reason it was needed. After all the old flag pre-dates Saddam, although without the “Allah Akbar” phrase. Surely it could have been used to try and create a sense of unity among the people rather than desiging and introducing a whole nuther flag that will, more than likey, merely create divisions?
-from QwghlmBlog
Current track: Controvery by Eamon
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Iraq,
vexillology
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